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Country diary: The moon is as high as it can ever get here | Amy-Jane Beer
Aldro, North Yorkshire: The ‘major lunar standstill’ only happens every 18.6 years, and once upon a time it would have been an unavoidable event

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24, Dec, 2024 @5:30 AM

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Country diary: An area the size of York opened up to nature | Amy-Jane Beer
Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: This huge project is already showing great signs of life, even before the beavers and rootling pigs have arrived

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25, Nov, 2024 @5:30 AM

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Country diary: When you’re watching the aurora unfold, even a blink is too long | Amy-Jane Beer
Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: Right across the northern sky, pink turns to gauzy green and rose, while we flap our arms for warmth

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14, Oct, 2024 @4:30 AM

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Country diary: Glowworms, nature’s gooey gourmands, get to work | Amy-Jane Beer
Ripon, North Yorkshire: The sun-dappled verges edged with willowherbs and brambles are good places for snails and this new batch of predators

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24, Sep, 2024 @10:51 AM

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Country diary: 145 footprints, ancient but somehow familiar | Amy-Jane Beer
Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland: It seems barely believable that this trail of depressions is early evidence of four-legged fish-like creatures making landfall

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27, Aug, 2024 @4:30 AM

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Country diary: Two of us face down the Atlantic drizzle | Amy-Jane Beer
Pen Pyrod, Gower: Hunched in front of me is a female kestrel, watching the water, feathers red as the topsoil around us

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22, Jul, 2024 @4:30 AM

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Country diary: A night on the whispering saltmarshes of the capital | Amy-Jane Beer
River Roding, London: A previously neglected scrap of land has been transformed for nature. I visit to immerse myself in the botanical throng

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25, Jun, 2024 @4:30 AM

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Country diary: Flowers growing in ancient ground is my idea of belonging
Star Carr and Huttons Ambo, North Yorkshire: In this age of disconnection and faux dominion, we can find true meaning in historical places like these

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23, Apr, 2024 @4:30 AM

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Country diary: An ancient site of discovery and disorientation | Amy-Jane Beer
Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire: Much is elusive about these three groups of stones, including, it seems, time itself

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26, Mar, 2024 @5:30 AM

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Country diary: The mystery of the wonky rowans | Amy-Jane Beer
Castle Howard estate, North Yorkshire: It’s a source of bafflement in the nursery here – why are the usually hardy and versatile rowans growing at odd angles?

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27, Feb, 2024 @5:30 AM

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Country diary: This tree is a multiple, feeding on itself | Amy-Jane Beer
Dartington, Devon: These are two yews of very different character, but the older, more gnarly one seems to be sustaining both death and life

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23, Jan, 2024 @5:30 AM

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Country diary: A chasm so divine it may be enshrined in folklore | Amy-Jane Beer
Lud’s Church, Peak District, Staffordshire: With its lush green and hushed interior, is this the lair of the Green Knight, as depicted in a medieval poem?

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27, Dec, 2023 @5:30 AM

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