The best rare birds seen all around Britain in 2025

Reading Sam Pyrah’s feature ‘In search of natural wonders’ in the January issue, I can’t imagine she was standing close to her starling murmuration, or she would have mentioned the incredible noise it

Karen Youngs encounters a couple of bachelors looking for love as the season shifts into spring

I like the slow-quick-slow burn of early spring, with the leaves unfurling slowly but surely. Some plants are decidedly cautious; whitebeams and catalpa won’t show themselves for weeks, while impatien

Give your pond a spruce up before frogs start spawning and aquatic insects such as pond skaters return. Remove duckweed and algae, leaving it beside the pond for a few hours so invertebrates can crawl

Gunwalloe, Helston TR12 7QJ Tel 07866 631 394 gunwalloecaravanpark.com This quiet family-run site sits pretty on the Lizard Peninsula. It’s just four miles from Helston and a five-minute drive from th