CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  I watched this pair of dippers courting along a stretch of the river Wear near Wolsingham in Weardale earlier this week. It's very dif...

It's not often that you see native British birds portrayed in church stained glass windows, but you can find this delightful dipper ...

In early June the meadows in the middle part of the dale, around Middleton-in-Teesdale, are full of buttercups , while... ... the ...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes a walk along the River Wear at Wolsingham in Weardale. Even though the riverbank woods look...

Photographing dippers can be a frustrating business - they have a habit of waiting until you get within range then flying off around a bend ...

Many of the rocks along the banks of the upper reaches of the river Wear carry the empty nymphal cases of stoneflies, recognisable by the p...

Downstream from the picturesque medieval village of Blanchland - see http://www.blanchland.org/ - Northumberland's River Derwent races ...