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Spring

June 2024

  • Danes Moss, Gawsworth, Cheshire.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A wild place that should be treasured, not bulldozed

  • Red mason bee

    Country diary
    Country diary: A solitary bee thrives amid the wet

  • A bird's nest orchid by the roadside

    Country diary
    Country diary: A roadside rarity that’s so easy to miss

  • A dung beetle

    Country diary
    Country diary: Taking home manure for the dung beetles to feed

May 2024

  • a scarlet poppy

    Allan Jenkins on gardening
    Eats shoots and leaves: the problems with pests

    The flowers are blooming and everyone’s loving the first signs of warmer weather in the garden, especially the birds and slugs
  • clothes composite

    What to wear...
    Hot to trot: what to wear to a spring fayre

    Will you make a beeline for the handicrafts, the homemade cakes or the plants? Here’s how to cut a dash at your local fete
  • Male bringing stick. Nic Wilson

    Country diary
    Country diary: These plucky moorhens have become local celebrities

    Hitchin, Hertfordshire: A bit of flooding is nothing to this duo – they just turned their nesting platform into a tower

April 2024

  • Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) adult male perched on lichen covered branch, Thursley National Nature Reserve, Surrey.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1924: the damaging effects of egg-looting

  • Frogspawn

    Young country diary
    Young country diary: What’s that droning noise coming from the river?

  • Allan Jenkins Plot 29 April

    Allan Jenkins on gardening
    Favourite flowers and moles making merry

  • A male bearded tit

    Country diary
    Country diary: Holding our breath as we watch the bearded tits

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1974: adders find their place in the northern sun

  • Country diary
    Country diary: All of life is in these farmyard geese

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    ‘A glittering new world of intrigue’: the rich stories Britain’s insects have to tell

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Standing up for the lesser celandine, a truly sensitive flower

  • Do I have seasonal allergies or is it the common cold?

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1949: the rooks have accepted nationalisation without demur

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A day of so many nature interventions

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Keeping a close eye on the adders

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A featherweight bout that doesn’t even bend the branches

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