A flock of 6 Golden Plover on fields at the edge of the moor this morning are the first I've seen since the snow moved of the birds tha...

Nice views of a male Merlin this morning. Any day that you see a Merlin is a good day in my book and, sadly, the sightings have become less ...

Spring could be just around the corner with the first returning Curlew on the moor this morning and what I assume was the same bird later th...

2017 In June 2017 I received  a message from Ken Smith to say he had had a Woodlark singing in Matlock Forest. We had often talked about the...

In a repeat of my post for 1st December, today I saw both Marsh and Willow Tits again on the same day. The Willow Tit was again on Flash Lan...

An unexpected movement of Whoopers Swans and Pink-footed Geese of the last couple of days. This morning 38 Whooper Swans flew NW up the vall...

 A bit more snow fell overnight but the forecast is for more in the next 24 hrs. There was very little in the valley bottom but 2 or 3cm was...

Had a decent day today with a small passage of Skylark over the moor and both Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gulls plus roosting Barn ...

 After two days of almost continual rain the flooding around Darley Dale was as bad as I can recall in the past two decades with the roads c...

I'm pleased to report that the Whooper Swan is still in Bakewell, just north of Bakewell Bridge and looking healthy. It looks to be sett...

I was very surprised to see this juvenile Whooper Swan on the River Wye just north of Bakewell Bridge this afternoon. It's odd to see a ...

It's always exciting to start the New Year bird list. No surprises today but a sleeping Barn Owl and a skein of Pink-footed Geese flying...

As I posted my first post of 2020, on 14th January who could have predicted what lay ahead? By then I had heard of the Covid-19 infections i...

The article below has just been published in the 2019 Derbyshire Bird Report and, as a co-author, I thought it would be of interest to those...

I watched a nice party of Common Crossbills coming down to drink on Farley Moor today and for a change we had some sunshine. I've seen u...