Your birding month october

A pride of lions silently patrolling the grassland at dusk; a cheetah closing in on its prey with mind-blowing speed; a watchful leopard curled artfully in a tree. There’s nothing quite like a big cat

Our walks this month Ian Battersby 1 Beinn ...

The golden-sandstone Cotswold village of Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire belies its name. In many respects it has all the hallmarks of a quintessential English village: pub, cricket club, an old ma

I T WAS THE best of times, it ...

SIX OF THE BEST

I’m setting up a 180-litre aquarium with temperate fish. I’m going for Odessa and Cherry barbs and a couple of Panda Garra, but I’d also like some catfish. Which corys would be the best bet for a temp