The best rare birds seen all around Britain in 2025

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

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

Glastonbury, in the Somerset Levels, might bring to mind crystal healing and ley lines, but away from the town wildlife flourishes. Our campsite was perfectly placed, close to both the RSPB’s Ham Wall

I’d just dropped Sarah off at a small railway station in Scotland and, after several weeks travelling together, I was on my own again. She was heading home to Cornwall, leaving me free to devote time

Now in its 47th year, the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch aims to offer a mass-participatory tonic to January’s often dreary outlook, with the opportunity to turn your gaze outwards and help the RSPB with