Best nature literature of 2014

Taking in shrews, rolling meadowland and newly resurgent birds of prey, Stephen Moss strolls though the year’s best nature writing

To mark the anniversary of the outbreak of the first world war. In Wings over the Western Front (Day Books), the illustrated wartime diaries of gardener and birdwatcher Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram have been ably edited by Ernie Pollard and Hazel Strouts. Another figure from that terrible conflict is commemorated in Edward Thomas: Birdsong & Flight, by Judy Kendall (Cecil Woolf), which examines the poet’s profound fascination with birds.

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