Who are you calling a peewit?

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to the fighting spirit of the tiny merlin, a fierce parent and favoured hunting accessory of Mary, Queen of Scots

Spring is the time to see the muscular and noble goshawk, usually as elusive as a ghost circling and swooping through the sky

With returning swifts screaming across the rooftop and golden buttercup pollen gilding his Wellingtons as he strides across the cow meadow, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the many pleasures of May

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Our view of them may be clouded by controversy, but the sight of a silver-grey hen harrier scaling the heavens is pure theatre