CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Blue skies and warm sunny weather in Weardale this weekend. Here are a few of the sights from a walk along the banks of the river Wear down...

We spotted this nuthatch, busy working on a nest hole in an old oak tree, when we were out walking in Teesdale last week. Nuthatches u...

When we first moved to Durham, nearly 40 years ago, nuthatches were not very common birds here. I can still remember the first one that I sp...

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

The long, narrow gorge spanned by Egglestone's Abbey Bridge bridge provides one the most picturesque viewing points on the River Tees ...