A had a single Red Grouse on the Triangle yesterday and then saw two flying near Wraggs Quarry and I thni three birds is now the total for ...

 The Cowberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea ), which is also known as Lingonberry, has a fairly restricted distribution locally with just a few pa...

 I've expressed my concern several times during the past decade about the decline of the Red Grouse on Beeley Moor ( most recently in Au...

 Checking the Mallards along the river at Chatsworth I was rewarded with my first Eurasian Wigeon of the autumn plus a single immature femal...

There could be no glorious (or inglorious!) 12th on Beeley or the Eastern Moors with the Red Grouse perilously close to disappearing altoget...

The Red Grouse is quite scarce on Beeley Moor so I was pleased to see a male with three youngsters today. I've stated before that number...

Quite a change in the weather overnight with about 10cm of snow in the valley and 15-20cm on the moor. I walked up Bent Lane to Wragg's ...

Ken sent me this photo of a Red Grouse in a Hawthorn bush, not how you usually see grouse although some other members of the grouse family s...

I got a nice sequence of a Red Grouse taking flight off the Coach & Horses rock formation at Derwent Edge yesterday. With more or less c...

With a reasonable weather forecast I decided to go for Red Grouse in the still flowering heather. As I've mentioned before there are too...

Ken took this photo during one of the brief sunny spells earlier last week. It's a nice photo for a number of obvious reasons but the mo...

On Saturday afternoon I was back on the moor but it was very grey and raining quite hard. Ken had mentioned a spot where he has seen Red Gro...

After raining most of the day yesterday it did brighten up in the afternoon and James and I took the opportunity to photograph the Red Grous...

Mountain Hare I did the usual walk this morning up Flash Lane to Beeley Moor with Ken Smith, Roger Carrington and Mel Hayes, it was very...

James has been to Derewent Edge overlooking Ladybower Reservoir where he took this photograph of a male Red Grouse calling in the snow. He c...

Last autumn it was estimated that there were about 30 breeding pairs of Red Grouse on Beeley and East Moors. The grouse showed well with the...

Red Grouse - male James came across a small covey of grouse this afternoon and got a couple of photos of this male.

As expected the Red Grouse were very active in the early morning sunshine but not so easy to photograph, James took both of these. Red Gr...