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
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
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
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
2 Sep 2014:
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20 Aug 2014: Country diary: Wenlock Edge: Drunk and disorderly, he wavers through the air until he catches the whiff of ripeness, finds the fruit and locks on
6 Nov 2013: Country diary: Egglestone, Teesdale: Harlequin ladybirds, which thrive on a diet of our native species, have spread from south-east England to the Scottish border
Guardian photographer Felix Clay takes a stroll at the Forestry Commission's Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire, where the transformation from summer to autumn is well under way
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