birds

Two penetrating glimpses into the wild world in times of calamity: Rob Carney's juxtaposition of the poetic and the political observing a hawk and squirrel in the US; Samantha Clark's lockdown contemplation of loss and stillness by a loch on a grey day on Orkney.

Latest in our Outbreak series on the global pandemic and its aftershocks, Dawid Jussarak reports from an empty university, in China, Michael McLane from a New Zealand small town

This week in the second 'palimpsest' of short pieces for our Outbreak series, Juhi Saklani watches the birds in India; Tom Smith watches history repeat itself in the Czech Republic.