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Country diary: Here, at least, martins and swallows are abundant | Mark Cocker
Castro Verde, Portugal: In contrast to my Derbyshire home town, the numbers are vast and their blue-and-white flight lines glorious
Mark Cocker
16, May, 2023 @4:30 AM
Wild daffodils are rarer than you’d think | Mark Cocker
Monsal Dale, Derbyshire: Compared with their cultivated cousins, they’re subtly different in shape, and endlessly restless
Mark Cocker
02, May, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: The glittering star of many a lawn
Lightwood, Derbyshire: Mosses are a wonderfully rich and underappreciated subject – often living right under our noses
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18, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM
Look up, listen and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis | Mark Cocker
More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life, says naturalist Mark Cocker
Mark Cocker
17, Apr, 2023 @7:00 AM
Country diary: This frog chorus is a purr, not a ribbit | Mark Cocker
Lightwood, Derbyshire: It’s frogspawn season, and what a delightful thing it is to stay for a while at the pond, just watching and listening
04, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: The rolling hills have been planted with 280,000 trees of 15 species | Mark Cocker
Broughton, Yorkshire: The estate is only three years into the most transformative example of rewilding in England
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21, Mar, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: The comical knot achieves perfection in flight | Mark Cocker
Spurn Head, Yorkshire: They turn survival technique into an art form, flocking in dense packs, blinking in and out of view
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07, Mar, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: My favourite tree in this hamlet | Mark Cocker
Knotbury, Staffordshire: This wind-felled elder seems to be hanging on, held upright by what strength remains in its seven rotting limbs
Mark Cocker
20, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Never have I seen a sparrowhawk so long or so well | Mark Cocker
Holt, Norfolk: After 50 years of glimpses, I thought I knew how they looked. Then one arrived at a friend’s bird table
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07, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Drifting wrappers and thudding pine cones mean only one thing | Mark Cocker
Goyt Valley, Derbyshire: Spotting a species as rare as the crossbill isn’t easy. So you need to play detective
Mark Cocker
24, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Masses of ivy that seem to defy time and space | Mark Cocker
Millers Dale, Derbyshire: Once I’d seen it, I could notice nothing else as it snaked up every tree and clambered across the ground
Mark Cocker
11, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: This mighty oak is just part of the tree of life | Mark Cocker
Marton, Cheshire: The heritage of all life is unimaginably ancient. Somehow we take the universal presence of the entire miracle so much for granted
Mark Cocker
20, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
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