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Country diary: The sweet pre-spring scent of optimism | Carey Davies
Otley, West Yorkshire: These rich woods, which I grew up next to, have been bought out by local groups who know the true value of nature
Carey Davies
28, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Days like these have inspired great art | Carey Davies
Harewood, West Yorkshire: Today is a day of big weather in an even bigger sky. And yet, my eye is drawn to a flock of overwintering chaffinches
Carey Davies
23, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: An ocean of cloud obscures the valley and villages | Carey Davies
Beamsley Beacon, Wharfedale: The legacy of vast ice leviathans is still vividly evident
Carey Davies
27, Dec, 2022 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Snared in the branches | Carey Davies
Mid Wharfedale, North Yorkshire: A chance encounter with a feral kitten leads me into undergrowth – it’s lucky to have made it this far
Carey Davies
08, Dec, 2022 @9:08 AM
Country diary: A vast murmuration of lapwings and starlings
Washburn Valley, North Yorkshire: Not all is as it should be here this autumn, making this seasonal spectacle especially welcome
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22, Oct, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: A cruel end to an arctic tern’s epic travels
Druridge Bay, Northumberland: These birds, whose migrations can add up to more than a million miles in a lifetime, have been hit by deadly avian flu
Carey Davies
27, Sep, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: The kingfisher allows me to get astoundingly close
Otley, West Yorkshire: I am expecting this hunter to get spooked, but I can easily make out the finest details of its plumage
Carey Davies
23, Aug, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: A jungle of seaweed, a busy spider crab, a bobbing seal
Borth Wen, Llyn peninsula: My occasional forays into the underwater world are always exhilarating and exotic – this one is no different
Carey Davies
27, Jul, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Dawn light gilds the fells as a lone ring ouzel sings
Great End, Cumbria: Disturbance, predation, grazing patterns and climate change all pose a threat to the ‘mountain blackbird’
Carey Davies
28, Jun, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: A safari of seabirds unbothered by human presence
Inner Farne, Northumberland: The tourist boats come and go, but the vast numbers of guillemots, puffins and kittiwakes carry on regardless
Carey Davies
31, May, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: A mass hatching rises from the river
Otley, West Yorkshire: The two-week window has opened for this type of caddisfly to emerge, and fall upwards into spring
Carey Davies
26, Apr, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: In the calm after the storm, defence is a priority
Otley, West Yorkshire: Flood damage caused by increasingly extreme weather is visible everywhere
Carey Davies
22, Mar, 2022 @5:30 AM
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