Several new moths for the year last night; Turnip Moth, Broken-barred Carpet, True-lover's Knot, Green Arches, Grey Pug, Bloodvein and t...

One of the more distinctive Tortrix moths, I only catch one or two a year but it is very widespread. Epinotia bilunana

The only other Turnip Moth I have posted was very ragged so this is a somewhat better example of this regular Noctuid. Turnip Moth

James returned to Chee Dale again today to have a look at the Dipper. The photo below of a juvenile is a combination of good photographic an...

A few more moths of interest in the trap last night with several Elephant Hawkmoth, Poplar Hawkmoth, Pale Tussock, Freyer's and White-sp...

It looks like the Mandarin Duck numbers in the area are going to continue to rise. Walking a 1Km stretch of the River Derwent I came across ...

Driving over the moor this morning I came across two Curlew swooping over the edge of the road. As I pulled over a tiny chick ran across in ...

This male Redstart looked like it was feeding young in a nest. Fantastic looking birds and they appear to be in good numbers this year.  Ca...

Mayfly's were in good numbers at Rowsley this morning. The Mayfly is unusual in that a winged dull coloured sub-adult emerges from the n...

Ken and I had a real surprise this morning when we came across a singing male Redwing on the edge of Matlock Forest.  Looking in Roy Frosts...

The fact that, perhaps more than any other owl, the Long-eared is almost exclusively nocturnal makes it particularly difficult to photograph...

It's not just owls that need excellent eyesight. Locating this brood of juvenile Long-eared Owl needs excellent eyesight on behalf of th...

I received a call from Pam mid-afternoon, whilst she was shopping in Bakewell, to let me know that there was a female Goosander on the river...

A recently emerged Large Red Damselfly next to its discarded larval skin on Bog Bean. Large Red Damselfly

I mentioned back in April that I had a single Shelduck flying over Beeley Moor and that this had almost certainly come from Middleton Moor. ...