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A growing selection of 2020 entries curated by Pippa Marland. A wheat ear arrives at the 'lost hamlet of Lodge in North Yorkshire, and Sue Harrison wonders if we can learn to live more harmoniously with the natural world. My early morning vigil to find the first arriving Wheat ear - iconic spring migrant of [...]

As I stepped out along an urban street in the early evening yesterday, the clouds were clearing after hours of heavy rain, and the dusk was full of birds: goldfinches and great tits flitting and dipping from tree to tree; gulls passing overhead; and all along the road, blackbirds and robins, in high branches silhouetted [...]

Spring, the very word is full of energy. We “spring” out of bed, we describe someone with lots of energy as “wound up like a spring”. So it’s not surprising that most of us feel a new lease of life as we come out of the long winter months. For me, the first day of [...]

In autumn 2017 the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Land Lines research team (an AHRC funded project on the history of nature writing) ran a poll to find the UK’s favourite nature book. Launched on the BBC’s Autumnwatch and in partnership with BBC Wildlife Magazine hundreds of people nominated their favourite books [...]