Alan Stewardson informed me of the first records of the Marbled White at Clough Wood this year on 24th June whilst I was away. At least one ...

I have just returned from a month in southern Europe (still writing up the trip on andybutlerdiaries ) and made my first visit to the moors...

Simon caught a Bordered Sallow in Darley Dale on the 4th July and sent me these photos. As far as we are aware this is the first record in t...

It's been five years since I last heard of a White-letter Hairstreak in Darley Dale but Simon Roddis sent me this photo taken recently i...

I was contacted by Simon Moody in the second week of June to say that he had seen a Turtle Dove in Uppertown around the time I photographed ...

I've just seen 4 Red Kite together over the woods at the back of my garden in Darley Dale, a record count locally for me. It looks like ...

There are dozens of flowering spikes of orchids appearing in Wragg's Quarry at the moment. When they first appeared around 2011 I'm ...

Simon caught this moth in Darley Dale a couple of days ago. I caught one on July 2016 so it looks like this moth is perhaps recently establi...

I had just been thinking that I was overdue seeing Mandarin with young but made up for it this morning with at least nine broods on a 1km st...

I spent the afternoon, which started cool and overcast but ended in sweltering sunshine, searching for some of our early flowering orchids a...

I spent the afternoon exploring the edges of the Via Gellia looking mainly for orchids, which I've posted above but also some of our day...

I saw my first Turtle Dove locally in almost twenty years today in the Matlock Forest area. Turtle Dove - male, in the lower photo it ...

In terms of habitat we have no wetlands in the immediate Darley Dale area so species that require these habitats are inevitably rare locally...

Came across a pair of Stonechat with three recently fledged youngsters this morning. Stonechat, male with two youngsters below

My second Red Kite of the week, or possibly the same bird as this one seen briefly over Whitesprings plantation on Tuesday. This bird drifte...