Another good morning on the moor with hundreds of Pink-footed Geese moving SW. The total for the morning was at least 1200 with skeins follo...

Two reasonable sized skeins of Pink-footed Geese crossed Beeley Moor this morning, totalling about 170 birds moving SE towards the Wash. Alw...

Fantastic to see a Great Grey Shrike on Beeley again, hope it stays for the winter. They certainly seem to like this area although they have...

Great to be back on the moors after another short trip abroad.  Plenty of birds about, Fieldfare and Redwing have arrived in large numbers ...

Another bird I was not expecting to see locally. News this morning that a harrier photographed yesterday on Big Moor had been identified as ...

I'm no expert on bees but my best guess is that these ground nesting bees in Wragg's are Colletes succinctus or Heather Colletes. Th...

For the past eight or nine days I've seen, or more correctly heard, a juvenile Peregrine flying up and down the valley. It follows an ad...

Last July Simon Roddis trapped a moth in Darley Dale which he thought was probably the Hoary Footman and I agreed with him, there are more d...

I don't see many Grasshopper Warblers so was lucky to hear this one singing on the edge of the moor today, and even luckier to see it.  ...

Another unusual micro moth. The Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland describes it's distribution as ' very lo...

There is still at least one Osprey in the area. I photographed this bird over Beeley Moor yesterday morning, it has a blue Darvic ring on it...

The warm weather has been good for seeing lizards, I had seven or eight this morning on a short stretch of dry stone wall including this ver...

It's possible that this moth caught last night, the Large Clothes Moth, could be as rare in Derbyshire as the Caspian Tern but it's ...

After the Sabine's Gull was last seen at Carr Vale on Wednesday you might have thought it would have quietened down but news of an adult...

With the warm weather I've been catching plenty of moths but nothing too exciting. I did catch this Swammerdamia pyrella last night whic...