• Country diary: Down in the grass, an invisible ball of wizardry | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

    Country diary: Down in the grass, an invisible ball of wizardry | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
    Northam Burrows, Devon: In the low dawn light I can make out a harvest mouse nest. Even when empty, they’re a sight to beholdAbove the sodden ground, amid pools of foot-swallowing water, hangs a feat of geometric wizardry. The harvest mouse’s nest is suspended in the high grass, barely discernible from the stalks that surround it in the scant early light.I try to unravel what I’m seeing. The carefully constructed grasses, spun into a spherical nest, seem at

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