Nests -- Nothing like a pig -- Inspector calls -- Field Guides -- Tekels Park -- High-rise -- The human flock -- The student's tale -- Ants -- Symptomatic -- Sex, death, mushrooms -- Winter woods -- Eclipse -- In her orbit -- Hares -- Lost, but catching up -- Swan upping -- Nestboxes -- Deer in the headlights -- The falcon and the tower -- Vesper flights -- In spight of prisons -- Sun birds and cashmere spheres -- The observatory -- Wicken -- Storm -- Murmurations -- A cuckoo in the house -- The arrow-stork -- Ashes -- A handful of corn -- Berries -- Cherry stones -- Birds, tabled -- Hiding -- Eulogy -- Rescue -- Goats -- Dispatches from the valleys -- The numinous ordinary -- What animals taught me.