A bird I haven't featured before on the blog but a common sight both around the parks and gardens and on the moor. In the past I have se...

Great to see some blue skies for a few days.  I was photographing a hovering Kestrel today when suddenly another bird flashed in to the vie...

I'm a bit late posting this, but better late than never! Monday 7th October was one of those wet days we seem to have had a lot of rece...

I've just returned from a birding trip to Azerbaijan and today was my first local trip out, after the deluge of the few days since I ret...

Over the past couple of weeks I've seen and heard what is presumably the same Willow Tit on two occasions and I managed a few photos tod...

Watched a cracking juvenile Marsh Harrier sparring with a Buzzard along Harland Edge yesterday.  It's only about the 4th I've seen ...

The Twite has probably never been a common bird on the Derbyshire uplands but changes to agricultural practices in the hay meadows bordering...

It's been a poor autumn for sightings of Osprey locally, both Ken and I have had just single sightings at Chatsworth and over Harland Ed...

I've speculated previously that the return of the Red Kite as a breeding bird in the Peak District has only been a question of when not ...

The first record for the County of Derbyshire in 16 years of the Night-flowering Catchfly (Silene noctiflora) has been found at the recently...

Finally caught up with Essex Skipper at Whitesprings Plantation off Flash Lane today.  A bit like the inevitability of Red Kites breeding l...

The tenth record of the Waved Black moth was recorded today in Darley Dale. Unsurprisingly it was Simon Roddis who caught it, I say unsurpri...

A muck heap on the edge of Beeley Moor has proven to be a magnet for small insect feeding birds this week. As well as many Pied Wagtails I c...

There is a good showing of Common Valerian on Flash Lane and Whitesprings plantation at the moment. Historically the plants root was collect...

There are still several male Grasshopper Warblers delivering their distinctive reeling song around Beeley Moor. The Grasshopper Warbler is o...