CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  It's often the case that the briefest of glimpses of an animal are the wildlife encounters that stick in the memory. Here are three re...

We have had deep snow on the ground now for over a week, which makes it difficult for kestrels to locate their field mouse and vole prey. Th...

  When I first came to Durham 45 years ago, it would have been a rare pleasure to watch a buzzard soaring overhead. I could only be sure of ...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about a sudden change in the weather in Tynemouth. We were visiting for a walk along the north ...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes an encounter with this young kestrel, which was still struggling to master some of the finer p...

A poor quality image but an interesting angle. This kestrel was one of a pair in a tree near the cliffs south of Seaham in Co. Durham .....

Over the years I've spent a lot of time staring up into the sky to watch kestrels, but a walk along the cliffs south of Dawdon on the D...

The Durham coast used to be famed for industrial dereliction and coal waste dumping, but thanks to a wonderfully successful clean-up campai...

If Michael Caine returned to the Durham coast today, south of Seaham, he probably wouldn’t recognise it. The final scenes of ...