The Brimstone is a relatively common and widespread butterfly in the area, I see odd ones in the garden most years, but this is the first ti...

Saw my first Hobby yesterday, over Haddon Hall, then another today on Beeley Moor. Very distant but you can at least see what it is! It...

Finally found a returning Wood Warbler, singing this morning in Clough Wood. I've been checking the local woods regularly since reports ...

The Whimbrel are still present on the small holding at Alicehead today. Numbers increased to 6 three days ago but have been down to 5 the la...

Having seen the Summer Snowflake recently my attention was drawn to a small cluster of flowers on Flash Lane which were superficially simila...

Grasshopper Warblers can be heard giving their distinctive reeling songs from several points around Harewood Moor at the moment. Quite often...

Three Whimbrel have been present for several days at the small holding by the junction of  Chesterfield  Road and Alicehead Road. There are ...

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...