It’s always darkest before the dawn

B ecause it’s the school summer holidays, it’s ...

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

The rise and rise of raptor species has been a major success of the past half century, but it may well have been the downfall of the common kestrel

Letter of the week As old as ...

back in may, after winter and the slow creep of early spring, I took myself along a disused railway line near Lewes, Sussex, to be consumed by the month’s riot. This barely used path was somewhat over

Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world