West Sussex: This secretive bird is the only duck species that migrates to the UK in the summer It’s dark and cold when I walk across the marsh, my boots splashing through the mud and wet grass. Geese ...

The cock pheasants had been disturbed by something at dusk, as their calls came from the long line of blackthorn scrub. By the time I had all the ducks, geese and hens into hutches to protect them ...