Wigeon

For broadcaster and naturalist David Lindo, the city offers as many birdwatching opportunities as the countryside. You just need to know where to focus your binoculars

I’M CURRENTLY READING a wonderful book called Local, by British explorer Alastair Humphreys. After years of trekking across deserts, mountains and jungles he decides to buy a map of his local area ‘so

Suited to dazzle and trilling a joyous song, the goldfinch weaves its magic in both the countryside and garden

Getting to know these chatty, sociable and intelligent birds

Rob Denson selects five classic fly families with an undiminished power to attract trout

A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird a second glance,