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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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