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

RED FOX

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

Birds can transport us to another time and place entirely,

When the temperature drops, how do Britain’s birds, beasts and plants keep the chill at bay? John Lewis-Stempel reveals Nature’s own thermals

This striking snowy-feathered bird is a winter visitor to Britain, particularly near the coasts of northern England and Scotland