Well it looks like Lockdown is over, or at least the Lockdown where we can only drive to the shops! My Lockdown list finished on 66 for the ...

Walked over the moors to Chatsworth yesterday, it was probably 5°C but felt colder with a strong northerly wind. The Stonechats were still f...

Yesterday I walked up to the moors twice, one good thing for me from the current lockdown is that I've had a lot more exercise!  In the...

Lovely warm, still day today and the perfect day for a Hobby gliding over the moors. As I mentioned previously Simon has had a couple of sig...

Never common on Beeley Moor, although an occasional breeder, I finally caught up with a nice male Whinchat. Unfortunately rather distant and...

Amazing how quickly the breeding season progresses, I've already seen Mallard and Moorhen chicks at the Whitworth and Coot at Caudwell...

I did an evening circuit of the moors on my bike yesterday and was rewarded with distant views of a Short-eared Owl hunting over the grassla...

Back on the bike I cycled up to Matlock Forest on Sunday morning, only a few kilometres but all up hill!  After about an hour I was amazed ...

The first of the returning Garden Warblers have been seen and heard in the last few days. Simon had the first I'm aware of on Wednesday ...

I did a long walk yesterday, over the moors to Chatsworth and back along the river via Rowsley. Since my last visit, only 5 days ago, the Oy...

Much the rarer of the two whitethroats I suspect that the Lesser Whitethroat is a rare breeding bird in the Darley Dale area. I saw my first...

Not quite gold but certainly bright yellow the Yellow Wagtail is a scarce visitor to the areas around Darley Dale so I was very pleased to f...

A lovely sunny day although still with a cool NE wind and Pam and I did a walk up to Beeley Moor. On the way I was surprised, but very pleas...

Looking on the positive side, news that the lockdown has been extended for at least another 21 days gives me plenty of opportunity to add mo...

Whilst the number of new birds seen in the garden has almost dried up there are still birds that can make the time spent looking worthwhile ...

Still managing a few new birds for the garden lockdown list, I'm now on 62 with the addition Willow Warbler, Jay, Fieldfare, House Marti...

A Red Kite drifting slowly down the valley this evening was my 57th species for the garden  since lockdown, after adding a flyover Grey Wagt...

After adding Pink-footed Goose to my garden lock-down list when two flew north with two Greylag Geese this morning, taking me to 52 species,...

Made it to 50 species from the garden today since the start of the Coronavirus Lock-down. It was a Kestrel which flew straight over the gard...

All day at home and unsurprisingly not many new birds to add to my Lock-down garden list but I did manage one; Grey Heron which looked like ...