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Wildlife-filled childhoods have been lost

Letter: As a child born in 1949, I watched hedgehogs, foxes, rabbits, hares, butterflies and weasels, writes Anne Geraghty. I feel privileged but unutterably sad that this has gone

The Guardian - UK · May 31

Creature comforts in times of grief

Letters: Readers respond to Amy-Jane Beer’s Country diary about bird visitations after her sister’s death

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30

Country diary: In my moment of loss, birds came like gifts

Ripon City Wetlands and Welburn, North Yorkshire: First a starling ​and then a robin​ arrived like visitations​. I am truly grateful for ​them both

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27

Country diary: A blank, unsettling place where even death has been erased

Wetwang, East Yorkshire: Around this site of an iron age cemetery, the rats cluck and pheasants take flight in neurotic clatters

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2023

Country diary: A gusty tour of some old friends

Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: Among the grand old trees there is a veteran birch that deserves more attention than it gets

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2023

Wainwright prize for nature writing won by ‘unparalleled’ river memoir

Amy-Jane Beer’s The Flow is one of three prize winners, with Guy Shrubsole’s conservation study The Lost Rainforests of Britain and Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston’s children’s book Leila and the Blue Fox

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2023

Country diary: Snoozing seals and close encounters

Great Ganilly, Isles of Scilly: We swim through a noodle-soup of seaweeds and see sleeping seals that are camouflaged perfectly until they move

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023

Country diary: A new angle on river management

Test valley, Hampshire: Fishing is part of the River Test’s heritage, but since embracing other uses, nature has flourished

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023

Country diary: Bathing in the glories of an early morning

Garbutt Wood, North Yorkshire: My task is to monitor four of our treasured farmland birds, but I come away with so much more

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2023

Country diary: I swim on behalf of the life in this river

Grassington, Yorkshire Dales: The water is dark and choppy, and still carries the bright bite of snow

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023