There were some sunny spells when I left home early this morning so I thought there may be a chance of some butterflies on the wing but the ...

Several Common Blue flying this morning during the odd spells of sunshine. Common Blue Butterfly

Voted Derbyshire's 'County Plant' in a nationwide poll by PlantLife in 2004 Jacob's Ladder is restricted in the UK to just 1...

Three males and a female on the small dew pond, this male attracted the attention of a Large Red Damselfly. Broad-bodied Chaser

Arrived at the small dew pond at the Monyash entrance in heavy cloud but as the sky cleared a myriad of damselflies appeared. Including both...

The past few years I have largely stopped trying to separate the very similar moths The Rustic and The Uncertain and report them aggregated....

James went down to Belper this afternoon for the Peregrines. Three juveniles have successfully fledged and there is one bird still in the ne...

I went out as usual shortly after first light and returned a couple of hours later, thoroughly wet. Updated my moth records for the year; 91...

Most of the flower spikes had gone over but their were odd ones still on display with the dead flowers in the foreground. Toothwort

As mentioned below I thought the 'spotted orchids' in Wraggs Quarry were Heath Spotted but I popped over to Bonall Moor to make sure...

Common Spotted Orchid

A couple of years ago Ken noted a single Northern Marsh Orchid, the first we had seen in Wraggs Quarry and it appeared again last year. This...

The warmer weather, especially the nights has made a big difference to my moth catches at home, I'm behind with the list but will update...

The Common Sandpiper at Chatsworth is at the extreme south-east of its main breeding range in England which is predominantly on the upland r...

No sign of the Osprey today but I came across my first leveret of the year, also Wheatear on Beeley Moor which is my first for a while. B...