Following last weeks sighting of a Red Kite at Bakewell I was pleased to see one this morning in a similar area to where they bred last year...

A single male Stonechat on the moor today, they have been in short supply recently although finding them in the winds of storms Ciara and De...

I haven't seen many Stock Dove recently so was slightly surprised to see a fairly tight group of nine flying over the Farley Moor planta...

It's been a rather slow start to the New Year, mainly due to the persistent mild, wet weather. I did make a reasonable start on the 1st ...

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...