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The joy of winter birdwatching (and how it’s changing)

Marsh harriers, chiffchaffs, blackcaps and little egrets find British winters much more congenial than they once did

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

Crisis relocation. A term from the Cold War. It means being somewhere else when it happens. When the threat of the Soviet Empire was as much a part of daily life as tea and toast, there were fixed plans to shift our leaders out of harm’s way at the whiff of the first missile.

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