We've had some great weather over the last few days and I'm starting to see more recently fledged juvenile birds which will be benef...

The Greylag Goose is a relatively recent resident in the area, its first appearance on the blog was only in 2015, although I'm sure I ha...

I can't actually recall my last Red-legged Partridge seen locally but it must have been at least a couple of years ago. It has not appea...

It's already a record year for Wood Warbler for me with 14 males establishing territories within 4km of Darley Dale. Still nothing like ...

Well it looks like Lockdown is over, or at least the Lockdown where we can only drive to the shops! My Lockdown list finished on 66 for the ...

Walked over the moors to Chatsworth yesterday, it was probably 5°C but felt colder with a strong northerly wind. The Stonechats were still f...

Yesterday I walked up to the moors twice, one good thing for me from the current lockdown is that I've had a lot more exercise!  In the...

Lovely warm, still day today and the perfect day for a Hobby gliding over the moors. As I mentioned previously Simon has had a couple of sig...

Never common on Beeley Moor, although an occasional breeder, I finally caught up with a nice male Whinchat. Unfortunately rather distant and...

Amazing how quickly the breeding season progresses, I've already seen Mallard and Moorhen chicks at the Whitworth and Coot at Caudwell...

I did an evening circuit of the moors on my bike yesterday and was rewarded with distant views of a Short-eared Owl hunting over the grassla...

Back on the bike I cycled up to Matlock Forest on Sunday morning, only a few kilometres but all up hill!  After about an hour I was amazed ...

The first of the returning Garden Warblers have been seen and heard in the last few days. Simon had the first I'm aware of on Wednesday ...

I did a long walk yesterday, over the moors to Chatsworth and back along the river via Rowsley. Since my last visit, only 5 days ago, the Oy...

Much the rarer of the two whitethroats I suspect that the Lesser Whitethroat is a rare breeding bird in the Darley Dale area. I saw my first...