Country Life Magazine – July 12, 2023 issue: A look at the birds everyone should see once in their life, why poets make the best naturalists, plus tartan, trout and Alan Titchmarsh.

The perfect 10

From peregrine falcon to puffin and starling to skylark, Stephen Moss selects 10 birds that we simply must see in our lifetimes

Rebels and romantics with a cause

Tartan is one of Scotland’s most recognisable exports—follow the thread from Highland dress to punk fashion with Mary Miers

To the end of Wales

Fiona Reynolds explores the crashing breakers and jagged coastline of the Llŷn Peninsula

For succour and relief

Roger Bowdler visits the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3, a monument to the extraordinary talents of Sir Christopher Wren

First, catch your trout

There is no finer riverside feast than freshly caught brown trout. Tom Parker Bowles is hooked

We will not plunder music of his dower

Mark Cocker says John Clare’s lyrical works resonate today more than ever—230 years after the peasant poet’s birth