BADGER: mighty burrower needs to keep its head down again
POWERFULLY built, yet shy and elusive, the badger is an animal which sparks almost as much controversy and debate in the countryside as...
FROG: pond study leads me to take a sudden unwelcome dip
EACH spring, lakes and ponds across the country are decorated with that glutenous, jelly-like substance known as frogspawn - the starting...
BLUE-TIT: water pistol drives off marauding predators
SMALLER, but more cocksure and adventurous, perhaps it isn't surprising that the blue-tit was recently found to have overtaken the...
HARE: arriving unannounced by crashing through a hedge
BIG, sleek and fast, the hare is an impressive native of the countryside, though a creature which is spotted less and less as its normal...
MOUSE: great white hunter sets out to bag the interloper
MY wife spotted it, a tiny flash of fur darting to a patch of peanut crumbs beneath the patio bird feeder in our back garden. Then it...
KESTREL: predator dines royally at a town centre car park
GRACEFUL and deadly, the kestrel can hover like the most sophisticated military helicopter above its prey before choosing the right...
SHEEP: a golden labrador loses his lustre when he slips leash
SHEEP worrying by dogs has been a problem in this country for decades but it came as a shock to me recently to learn that 22,000 sheep...
PIGEON: cruelty of a perverted mind ended many lives
IF a foreign tourist was asked to name a typical British bird after visiting London they would in all likelihood plump for the pigeon. I...
WEASEL: ferocious predator a blur as it closes in on its victim
LIKE a tiny tiger in its ferocity, the weasel strikes terror into the shy inhabitants of hedgerows or fields when it sets out to hunt...
WREN: noisy mother so staunch in defence of her newborn
TINY and furtive, there is something almost mouse-like about the wren as it goes about its daily hunt for food in bushes or hedgerows....
