With the continuing miserable weather I decided to join two friends, Richard Hart and Angus Molyneaux, on a trip to Holland at the weekend. ...

Despite there being blue skies less than 100m above the valley Darley Dale was shrouded in mist all day yesterday, due to a temperature inve...

Better luck this morning, 6 Hawfinch dropped in to the Yew trees by the entrance to Willersley Castle early this morning, they left after a ...

Whilst at Carsington looking for the Scaup (below) I came across this female Tufted Duck with a bright blue nasal tag. Mentioning this to Ro...

The usual trip round the moor this morning was very dismal and no birds. Roger mentioned that the Scaup, which have been present at Carsingt...

A cold start to the day with one of the few heavy frosts of the winter so far. The temperature was -3 as I set off this morning back to Crom...

I had high expectations for today as it was a reasonable weather forecast but the day was rather disappointing.  I had my first Stonechat o...

This is my first sighting of the Great Grey Shrike since 23rd November when it was on Flash Lane, nice to see it in 2014. There have been se...

The weather has been so bad today I've spent most of it writing up my 2013 moth records. I caught a total of 236 species of macro moth...

As you will know if you live locally the weather is terrible today with heavy rain from almost the start of the day. I say almost because I ...

It has rained most of the day so it has been hard work but I've seen Peregrines, Ravens, Tawny Owl and a new bird for the local patch Tr...

Another photo of James's taken a couple of evenings ago - another striking image, there are more on his website. Looks like you could al...

Ken, Roger and I enjoyed an unexpected late Christmas present this morning when we saw a male Hen Harrier. It came up from Whitesprings Plan...

As I have previously mentioned the Herring Gull is not particularly common locally and there is still a group of about 30 feeding on the flo...

It would be interesting to count how many pairs of Little Grebe there are on Cromford Canal, it looks like there is a pair every 50 metres o...