It began in March, when the buff-tailed queens emerged from hibernation, zigzagging from bloom to bloom.
Tag: Country Diary
Citizen science projects have found that yellowhammers end their song according to regional “accents”.
The hillfort racecourse at Lambert’s Castle hasn’t been in use since the 1950s, but legend dates it back to the Romans.
Golden Cap, Dorset: This rare species is now re-colonising the south coast of England after an absence of more than a century.
A piece for The Guardian’s Country Diary on a summer meadow in the Marshwood Vale.