CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 The moorlands of Weardale are a sea of purple heather at the moment, often stretching all the way to the horizon. Billions of tiny, nectar-...

Today's Guardian Country Diary  is about birds that nest on moorland in Weardale, and the ways in which they defend their fledglings. ...

This plant, wavy hair-grass Deschampsia flexuosa , is common on the moorland above Blanchland in the Derwent valley in Northumberland.  ...

Muir burning in Teesdale yesterday - burning off the old heather stems so that new shoots develop, to feed grouse. A pe...

There are newly-hatched chicks everywhere out on the moors at the moment and different birds have their own particular strategies for defle...

Heather, or Ling, Calluna vulgaris Heather moorland The heather moorlands in the North pennines are just about at their best now, with hun...