The world is full of the most extraordinary examples of natural beauty. Here are our favourite sights and sounds of our natural world, one for each month of the year. Which is your favourite?
January: The stoop of a peregrine falcon
February: The flash of a kingfisher
March: Black grouse lekking
April: A bluebell wood
May: Cow parsley in our hedgerows
June: A trout rising to a mayfly
July: Swifts swooping and screaming
August: Chalkhill blue butterflies on the downs
September: A barn owl hunting at dusk
October: Red-deer stags roaring in the rut
November: Hounds in full cry
December: Ash burning on an open fire
Exhibition review: Ordinary Beauty – The Photography of Edwin Smith
Country Life reviews Ordinary Beauty: The photography of Edwin Smith at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Barn owls bounce back
The British Trust for Ornithology has reported a rise in barn owl nesting figures.
Grey squirrels to be culled
Grey squirrel crackdown planned.
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
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An utterly charming island home in Scotland with gardens so beautiful they made the cover of Country LifeAn Cala on the Isle of Seil has a fascinating history that is only enhanced by its amazing setting.
