My friends, the owls

Birds can transport us to another time and place entirely,

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

As a child, i saw owls as mystical beings that operated by night, were difficult to see at the best of times, and hung out in woodland locations far from the largely concrete surroundings of my home i

I am camped high up among the crumbling volcanic peaks of the Isle of Rum, in the Inner Hebrides, sheltering in my tent from dense clouds of the hungriest midges I have ever encountered. As darkness f

October brings the first of the frosts, bewitching mist, the turning of leaves and a host of otherworldly visitors, finds John Lewis-Stempel

Have your very own Winter Watch at home and look out for some garden visitors in the coming weeks and months