CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  I'd always thought of rooks as birds with uniform black plumage, until this one landed in a tree outside my window and the early morni...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about cormorants. Look at a cormorant's plumage from a distance and it seems as though it...

Two lovely examples of iridescent colours  seen today.......... ... the subtle pink and green highlights in the mother-of-pearl layer o...