CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

It's peak flowering time for brambles in Teesdale at the moment, which means that it is also peak feeding time for ringlet butterflies ...

Low Burnhall is a Woodland Trust reserve just south of Durham city, with new tree planting to link up fragments of ancient woodland. It will...

About a week ago, when we were walking near Wolsingham in Weardale, we came across a remarkable concentration of small skipper butterflies ...

It's almost three weeks since we last visited the sunny magnesian limestone railway embankment on the disused railway line between Ga...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes a visit to Low Burnhall farm in Durham, now the site of a Woodland Trust major re-forestin...