RED FOX

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

SARAH DITUM

Nature needs time to adapt to changing conditions,

Have your very own Winter Watch at home and look out for some garden visitors in the coming weeks and months

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters