Although I've seen Bank Voles occasionally before on Flash Lane, usually taking seed that has been left for the birds, today I had one o...

I have a small garden pond which attracts both Smooth and Palmate Newts. Smooth Newts are the commonest but their identification is not easy...

The Dark Green Fritillary butterfly is common, sometimes very common during the summer at Longstone Edge and the dales of the White Peak whe...

Brief view of a Roe Deer crossing Beeley Moor  this morning  and having to jump quite high to clear the heather. Only my fifth sighting in t...

At a chance meeting with Simon Roddis yesterday he told me about a flowering Summer Snowflake he had seen at Clough Wood that morning. I wen...

There have been several local sightings of Red Kite in the past few weeks and I finally managed some decent views today. Red Kite mobb...

Several male Pied Flycatchers seen today in the Darley Dale area. The first bird was reported on the 13th April but these are the first I...

My first fledged Dipper of the year today on the River Wye north of Rowsley. Assuming around 17 days to incubate the egg and 22 days as a ne...

More Spring arrivals today with my first local Willow Warbler (I heard one at Carsington last week) and Tree Pipit in the Flash Lane area wi...

With cool SE winds over the past week the arrival of migrants has been slow but my first Common Redstart of the year today by the river at R...

The recent heavy rains have caused flooding in some of the fields bordering the river Derwent and the Wye. Simon has been checking the area ...

Ken saw the first Chiffchaff of the year today at Rowsley which must be one of the earliest dates locally.  The first Curlew was seen on the...

With a clear sky for a change I spent most of the day in the hills and was rewarded with a superb Peregrine, which flew close past my viewpo...

There was not a flake of snow left on the A6 in Darley Dale this morning but just a 100m higher around Beeley Moor there was a good 6cm of f...

Although New Years Day started off overcast and very windy the sky partially cleared late morning and I had decent views of a Dipper feeding...