I saw my first Common Gulls of the autumn this afternoon with two adults feeding in a recently ploughed field with Lesser Black-backed Gull...

Following reports of several skeins in the Midlands yesterday there was a significant movement of Pink-footed Geese over the Peak District t...

I rarely see Weasel or Stoat on Beeley Moor but I have had brief views of what I assume is the same Weasel several times in the last week.  ...

 The exceptionally warm summer has produced lots of records of Hummingbird Hawkmoths locally. This one has been visiting the Honeysuckle in ...

 Two adult Red Kites perched at Rowsley, close to where I saw the Osprey was a nice surprise. I haven't seen any juveniles this summer s...

 Two Green Sandpiper today on Emperor Lake at Chatsworth. I have one previous record of Green Sandpiper from the Cupola Ponds at Stone Edge ...

 I've expressed my concern several times during the past decade about the decline of the Red Grouse on Beeley Moor ( most recently in Au...

 My first Osprey of the year this morning,  an adult sat on the tree tops above the River Lathkill on the Youlgrave Road. It has a blue Darv...

 I've made a couple of evening visits to the moor this week and was surprised to find that the Nightjars were still churring and wing cl...

 I came across a Little Egret at Harthill Pond yesterday, could be the same bird that spent most of last winter there. It was sat motionless...

 Simon caught this Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) last night in Darley Dale, I have not heard of any previous records locally but it ...

I've seen my first Tufted Duck ducklings this week with a brood of three at Chatsworth and a single on Harthill Pond, Youlgrave. They ar...

Not a reference to Pam, but to the Old Lady Moth. This was found dead at Darley Dale Primary School today. It's a widely distributed mot...

 Back after almost a month away in Spain and the south of France it looks like the temperature here is set to hit similar levels to those I...

 A lovely example of the Dark Umber moth caught by Doug Aston at Middleton-by-Youlgrave on 12th July.  Very scarce in Derbyshire with histor...