CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Gorse can be found in bloom in every month of the year, even in the depths of winter. I don't know how many of these flowers produce s...

When our kids were little they used to call goldcrests 'squeaky wheels' because their thin, repetitious, high pitched notes sounded...

Just come back from a couple of days on the Northumberland coast, which was windy, cold but indescribably beautiful. Cull...

We found this newly-emerged green-veined white, still 'pumping up' its hind wings, when we walked along the ...

I was so cold  and shivering so much when we walked along the river Wear near Durham this afternoon that I could hardly h...

These carline thistles Carlina vulgaris flowered last summer but their papery seed heads survive the winter and still look decora...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes a walk along Thornhope Beck, a tributary of Waskerley Beck that flows into the river Wear...