A nice surprise yesterday when I returned from a rather unproductive trip to Middleton to see this juvenile Goshawk circling with a Buzzard...

 A Chiffchaff in Darwin Forest this morning is my earliest record, seems strange to be talking about Spring at the end of February but there...

 Four Hawfinch have been reported several times over the last few days at St Helen's Church but increased to six this morning. They feed...

Hot on the heels of Great White Egrets at Chatsworth and Middleton Moor, Pam and I came across another at Harthill Pond (New Dam) at Youlgra...

 It's not the first Goshawk I've seen from the garden, but it's the first I've had circling directly overhead! Judging the s...

 A singing male Dipper did a bit of display to its mate on the Lathkill this morning, in very cold weather. The male was ringed and I though...

 Following the Pink-footed Goose movement on the 21st January I've seen no more, apart from the lone Pink-footed Goose that spends its t...

 My first 'patch' Yellow Wagtail of the year this morning with a male singing at Elton Common. A scarce passage migrant migrant on B...

 With the sunny weather in recent days I've spent some time looking for Goshawk which are now starting to display. I've had some luc...

 After two days of almost continual rain the flooding around Darley Dale was as bad as I can recall in the past two decades with the roads c...

I last commented on the status of the Northern Goshawk in the Peak District in January 2016 referring to the 2014 Derbyshire Bird Report whi...

With a clear sky for a change I spent most of the day in the hills and was rewarded with a superb Peregrine, which flew close past my viewpo...

Ravens calling overhead whilst I was walking on the moors today caused me to look up to see two birds interacting with a second calendar yea...

With a brighter start to the morning I decided on a longer walk in the Peak District, it was generally quiet apart from a few Buzzards but t...

A recently fledged juvenile female Goshawk watches me warily from high in a Larch tree in the Peak District.  One of Derbyshire's rares...

The Goshawk is one of the hardest birds of prey to see well or photograph. The UK population is lower than it should be through continued pe...

As I was setting off to walk back from Chatsworth I picked up a raptor circling over the trees, I thought it would be another Buzzard but wa...

Had a lucky encounter with a male Goshawk over the moor this morning. It was rather distant and didn't hang around so I was lucky to get...

I walked about 20 miles again today but was unable to add any new species to my Foot It list. This juvenile Goshawk however more than made u...

Distant views of a juvenile Goshawk today, probably the same bird I saw on 15th September so it's good to see it doing well in its first...