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Country diary: An island of wild life among the empty pastures | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: Here, the elderberries reflect the world upside-down, while swallows and ravens carve up the sky
Paul Evans
28, Sep, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: Sheltering under ancient yews, surrounded by past and present | Paul Evans
Pennant Melangell, the Marches, Powys: Inside the church, a story was carved into wood before it made it on to the page
Paul Evans
31, Aug, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: The orb-weaver spider is still optimistic of a good harvest
The Marches, Shropshire: We must recognise the genius artist in these animals. But how many insects will this one catch?
Paul Evans
27, Jul, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: A scarlet shimmer of poppies, irresistible to bees | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: On a bright day after a thundery night, the bees are sometimes three or four to every flower
Paul Evans
22, Jun, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: Flashes of life as a storm comes our way | Paul Evans
Sorrento, Italy: A hornet scoots through thistley plumes and wall-lizards defy gravity. Behind it all, Vesuvius looks ready to blow
Paul Evans
30, May, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: The blackbird chicks are out, and up against it
The Marches, Shropshire: Now they must navigate a precarious world of not just predators, but casual ecocide
Paul Evans
29, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: The old oaks won’t believe it’s spring until they see it | Paul Evans
The Marches, Montgomeryshire: The ones here, at the home of rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, know how to wait till the coast is clear
Paul Evans
30, Mar, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: A peace-seeking letter to a rat | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: I do not see you as dirty, a police informer or drunk. Your fur has glamour. Your eyes flash jet
Paul Evans
24, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM

Country diary: A floating ghost town with a soaring view of the world | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: At the iron age hillfort of Old Oswestry, time hangs heavy in the air here
Paul Evans
26, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM

Country diary: The redwing is bird-brained, but far from stupid | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: If we could look inside the head of this fearless redwing as it defends its store of rowanberries, what would we find?
Paul Evans
22, Dec, 2022 @5:30 AM

Country diary: Bonsai birches grow in the tree’s crown
The Marches, Shropshire: Witches’ broom is a curious thing – the result of a fungus and looking like a bird’s nest
Paul Evans
24, Nov, 2022 @5:30 AM

Country diary: Nothing can hold back the bracken
The Marches, Shropshire: On one side, the green folds of Wales; on the other, England’s border-town streets. The bracken could take it all
Paul Evans
27, Oct, 2022 @4:30 AM
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