Today I start my journey to Poland to continue the tour of Europe I started last year. All being well I'll be away until the end of June...

It looks like there are at least 7 pairs of Stonechat nesting on Beeley Moor this year which is up on recent years, perhaps due to the very ...

Hundreds of the tiny day flying micro moth Dyseriocrania subpurpurella flying in Clough Wood at the moment. You need to see them up close to...

Great to hear the call of a Cuckoo first thing this morning on Flash Lane. It was distant but I took a record photo. Cuckoo

Both the Fox Moth and its close relation the Northern Eggar have larva which over winter before pupating in the Spring. The larva of both sp...

On a very overcast and wet Good Friday the first returning male Redstart was in full song at Rowsley early this morning. Brightening up an o...

My first Osprey of the year spent an hour or so in the trees bordering the river at Rowsley yesterday before carrying on north just after 7p...

I went looking for Pied Flycatcher in Clough Wood last week, rather optimistically, on the back of reports of early returning migrants but w...

As anticipated, the sunshine and higher temperatures has brought out the Emperor Moth. The males, like this one, are day flying and search f...

It's not just us that enjoy the sunshine, had my first Common Lizard of the year warming in the sunshine and a single Garden Tiger larva...

The tiny micro moth Philedonides lunana (Heath Twist) was on the wing today. It's about the only moth on the moors at the moment but the...

Went back for another look at the Willow Warblers on Flash Lane in the sunshine today. There were at least 10 around the recently replanted ...

Came across my first singing Blackcap of the Spring at Clough Wood today. I heard several reports of over-wintering birds in the Matlock are...

I encountered two herds of black Fallow Deer close together at Clough Wood today totalling 53 animals which I suspect is close to the total ...

Caught a nice example of Caloptilia stigmatella at home this morning, a micro moth which is probably fairly common locally. It feeds on Will...