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Country diary: This ancient site is a place of natural departures and returns

Seahenge, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk: The soundscape of today would have been familiar to those working 4,000 years ago to erect this monument

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2022

Country diary: A hand lens reveals mosses’ micro-engineering

Wolsingham, County Durham: In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia opened up a world that is still as captivating to me now as it was in my childhood

The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2022

Country diary: A heathery summit and a bumper apple harvest

Kit Hill/Tamar Valley: So heavy is this year’s crop that branches have split and broken from Improved Keswick, Belle de Boskoop and Hambling’s Seedling

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2022

Country diary: Water is scarce, and getting scarcer, on the farm

Tebay, Cumbria: We are increasingly struggling to get enough water for ourselves and the animals, so drastic action is needed

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2022

Country diary: From out of a ditch rises this stunning rarity

West Dartmoor, Devon: Only a handful of sites in southern England and Wales are home to the exquisite southern damselfly, and this is one

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2022

Country diary: Who would live in a keyhole like this?

Allendale, Northumberland: I had found neat semi-circles on the epimedium leaves in my garden, now I know who’s been busy

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2022

Country diary: Humans are nature just as much as the falling tree

Monkton Wyld, Dorset, and Welburn, North Yorkshire: Some environmentalists wish us to shrink ourselves from the world and other species. This cannot be so

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2022

Country diary: The kingfisher allows me to get astoundingly close

Otley, West Yorkshire: I am expecting this hunter to get spooked, but I can easily make out the finest details of its plumage

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2022

Country diary: A calm coastal scene, but the heat is taking its toll here

Boscastle, Cornwall: A few daredevils cool off in the sea, while some of the vegetation is losing its colour

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2022

Country diary: A stony desert in the heart of the Peaks – and it’s thriving

Longstone Edge, Derbyshire: A lot of work has gone into making this a place of infertile land yet abundant wildlife. And pride of place goes to the rare spined mason bee

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2022