CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

When we first came to live in Co. Durham in 1975 several butterflies that I had been familiar with in the south of the country were nowhere...

I've been cultivating this garden for over 30 years and this is the first year that I've noticed these exquisite little candy-strip...

Bad weather sometimes brings unusual birds into our small suburban garden, but this moorhen that arrived the morning was a real surprise. We...

I found this tiny lacewing larva, which was about 3mm. long, on the surface of a pear in our garden. If it hadn't scuttled away when I ...

It's been a good year for ladybirds in our garden - here's a selection of the species that have visited so far: ...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about freshwater invertebrates that remain active all through the winter. There may be no bees or ...

Time to start feeding the birds again, which must be even more satisfying if you grow your own sunflower seed for feeding finches..............

This mother and child combo turned up outside our living room window this morning. Wood pigeons have been breeding in the garden for several...

Wildlife gardening evangelists frequently exhort us to plant native species in our gardens - quite rightly, as there are indeed many native...