Another interesting day, I started off in the conifers along Flash Lane and was both surprised and pleased to hear the Turtle Dove purring....

 Robin Elliot came across a pair of Grey Partridge yesterday by the Matlock Road/ Alicehead Road junction. Fortunately they were still in th...

 The lone male Turtle Dove which has frequented Uppertown, Darwin Forest and the Matlock Farm Park area returned for its 6th summer on the 2...

After my last blog, in which I mentioned that Alan had heard a Turtle Dove on Flash Lane, Simon Moody contacted me to say that he had first ...

I was on Flash Lane this afternoon, looking for a Turtle Dove that Alan Stewardson had heard this morning.  No sign of the dove but 2 female...

 I completed my first Turtle Dove Survey this morning and was rewarded with both hearing and seeing a single male. It is the same bird I he...

 Although Common Swifts were first seen at Carsington Water on Monday I saw my first today flying directly over the garden in Darley Dale. T...

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 ...

I was contacted by Simon Moody in the second week of June to say that he had seen a Turtle Dove in Uppertown around the time I photographed ...

I saw my first Turtle Dove locally in almost twenty years today in the Matlock Forest area. Turtle Dove - male, in the lower photo it ...