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Simon Barnes: paying homage to dolphins

There really is nothing quite like the astonished joy that you experience — that no human being can help experiencing — at the sight of a...

The joy of the high life

The sky is not just the space above our heads. It’s home. If not for us, then for many

Finney runs up, he leaps skyward, he scores

Even sports writers understand the idea of cliché, even if we don’t always use the concept as negative guidance

Simon Barnes: waiting for badger

Here be badgers. Or here be badger holes, anyway, at the Margaret Grimwade badger hide

Beetle gets a ticket to ride on my arm

Wild Notebook: a chance meeting sent me scurrying to my reference book

Some things comes from mothing

Wild Notebook: the secret world of the moth

A bittern sweet morning (boom boom)

Wild Notebook: wild, wet Minsmere is a rare delight

Four legs best when on mammal watch

Wild Notebook: a hare-raising experience on horseback

Swallows tell us all's right with the world

Thoughts of the benignity of Creation lurk in their fly-pasts

Cherish your foxes as status symbols

These urban animals are not mangy and diseased, they are mean, lean survival machines

We need rainforest as much as the apes do

There is conflict between animal welfare and conservation. But it is better to save habitats than individuals

Spring is sprung, but are the birds on the wing?

We should celebrate the return of migrant visitors while we still can

Songs of the thrush

Like most musicians, the song thrush is in love with repetition and innovation

Save the whale shark. And say a prayer

Wild Notebook: the ingenious methods of the Wildlife Trust for India

The tiger glowed with a striped beauty

How I made the ultimate wildlife sighting

Spring, sun and the butterfly effect

We have some odd ideas about gender - there's nothing unmanly about a love of the natural world

Ignore Freud, admire the sleek killer

Wild Notebook: the beauty of our native slitherers, the adder and the grass snake