Another Little Egret at Chatsworth today, it flew up from the river and landed in a tree, and at least one back at Youlgreave yesterday. Th...

 I came across a dead sheep on Flash Lane yesterday which attracted several Magpie, Carrion Crows and 2 Raven. Raven Ravens are now a common...

For many years I thought the Long-eared Owl was just a summer visitor to the Beeley Moor area. This was based on the simple fact that I had ...

 A couple of weeks ago Doug Aston let me know that a friend of his had seen a Marsh Tit on a feeder in Youlgreave. Although I've seen Ma...

 There have been hundreds of Redwing flying around this week and they appear to be settling in to feed now. I came across a nice group feedi...

Two more Whooper Swans flew over the patch this morning. Flying high SE over my head, following the river at Chatsworth. I also had a small ...

 We've had a spell of very gloomy weather recently and today was no exception but I had very close views of a Common Kingfisher on the R...

My first local Whooper Swans of the year today, with six birds seen distantly from Beeley Moor crossing Whitesprings Plantation heading towa...

 The Cowberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea ), which is also known as Lingonberry, has a fairly restricted distribution locally with just a few pa...

 After the excitement of the Woodpigeon movements last week with a record count of just under 188k from Ramsley on the 4th it has been much ...

 The Black-headed Gull bearing the blue colour ring 2T51 has returned to Bakewell for its third successive winter.  It was rung in Grange-ov...

There have been some big movements of Common Woodpigeon in recent days.  This morning Alan Stewardson and I counted 13,100 birds moving in a...

 After the heavy rain this morning I went to Chatsworth mid-afternoon following the river from Beeley. There were the usual Mandarins along ...

 Another exciting day of visible migration on Beeley Moor with 1700 Fieldfare and 1100 Redwing crossing the moor but the star bird was a Bla...

 With almost continual rain yesterday and mist and rain today its been difficult bird watching conditions. There are lots of thrushes about ...