CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  An unexpected visitor to the garden bird feeder this week: a rook. They don’t appear in the garden very often, but when they do it’s usual...

Probably the best weather that I can ever remember for an Easter Sunday. We took a walk along the south side of the river Wear, between Wol...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is about an organism that seems certain to benefit from the death of ash trees. More of that later, but...