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12 Sep 2014:
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland: Each year I have plucked the papery heads of hay rattle, their cargo of flaked almond-like seeds shaking inside, to distribute them
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11 Sep 2014: Patrick Barkham: There is little activity, no gunfire or marksmen in sight, but is the silence of the countryside misleading?
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11 Sep 2014:
Planning committee turn down Celtique Energie application to explore for shale gas and oil near Fernhurst in West Sussex
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11 Sep 2014: Country diary: Mickleton, Teesdale: By the time the leaves have fallen here the redstart may well be catching flies stirred up by hooves of gazelles in Morocco
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10 Sep 2014: Jay Rayner: It’s that time of year when chefs are spotted stumbling around the countryside looking for produce. But, more than what you pick, it’s how you cook your haul that really matters
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10 Sep 2014:
Country diary: Wenlock Edge: Insects use their bodies in ways that seem mysterious and bear marks that are cryptic, as if their original meaning has been lost
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9 Sep 2014: Government says scheme is under way in the two counties to limit the spread of TB in cows
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9 Sep 2014: Country diary: Cape Wrath, Sutherland: I felt my heart race and the hair on my neck prickle at this disembodied song, so loud and unexpected
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8 Sep 2014:
Country diary: South Uist: Each tractor pauses briefly and, as the driver watches over his shoulder, another perfectly rolled and bound bale is disgorged
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7 Sep 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 9 September 1964: At the top of Meon Hill I lay on an earth ramp where once there had been a Neolithic fort. I thought the whole world was asleep in the heat of this summer afternoon
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6 Sep 2014: Country Diary: Sandy, Bedforshire: A girl crouched to take the dragonfly’s picture. It flew up, landed and laid an egg on her knee
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5 Sep 2014:
Second round of night-time shoots in Gloucestershire and Somerset to begin but without independent monitors
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5 Sep 2014: Long sunny spells after a mild winter and early spring delivers a bounty of wheat, barley and oats
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5 Sep 2014: Country diary: Ullapool, Highlands: The black-throated divers’ main problem with nesting is their legs. These are set far back, which assists them when swimming but makes them clumsy on land
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4 Sep 2014: Country Diary: Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire: White angelica umbels crawl with drone flies, sawflies, solitary wasps and bristly tachinid flies. But this is not a safe place to be a fly
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