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 ...

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 ...

Great to see some blue skies for a few days.  I was photographing a hovering Kestrel today when suddenly another bird flashed in to the vie...

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...

Had a lucky encounter with a juvenile Sparrowhawk. It chased a small bird in to a bush close to me and I just managed to get a photo before ...

Kestrels and Sparrowhawks generally appear to get on pretty well together or at least tolerate each others presence so it was unusual today ...

A rather distant photo of a male Sparrowhawk but it shows the lovely blue-grey head and orangey face and barring on the underparts. Otherwis...

With almost continuous rain for the last couple of days I have not seen much in the way of wildlife but sitting in the hide at Ogston Reserv...

A pair of Sparrowhawk came together briefly, either in aerial combat or display, but I only managed to capture one of the birds, before they...

There are large numbers of Meadow Pipits moving south over the moor at the moment, some will be going as far as southern Spain for the winte...

Just caught this young Sparrowhawk as it flew over the garden yesterday. Sparrowhawk - juvenile