In slow motion

Of all the garden minibeasts, few are as misunderstood as this humble creature

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

The best of the season to inspire and admire

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

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

Moles are strange. they have evolved to become so highly specialised and attuned to a particular way of life that they are, for the most part, out of sight. Underground, they live in a fossorial world