As different as night and day

An early-morning dog walk through the woods sees John Lewis-Stempel coming face to face–or skin to spider silk–with the industrious magic of a September dawn

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

Karen Youngs encounters squabbling herons and glimpses an elusive predator on a waterside walk

Bathed in burnished hues, a Hertfordshire cottage haven is a marriage of formal and wild planting

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist

D aylight, soft and grey, spreads into the ...