Foot It - Update 5th Jan
Dipper - singing Had a good walk this morning, continuing with my efforts to see as many birds as possible during the month of January on fo...
First Moths of the Year
Whilst the mild, damp weather is no help to bird watchers it does encourage the first moths of the year to take to the wing. Last night I c...
Reg-green Carpet
The Red-green Carpet is one of a small group of moths that flies as an adult in the Autumn then the females over winter prior to egg laying ...
Foot It Challenge - 1st January
Spent the whole of today walking my area in the Foot It Challenge (see Blog 20th December for details) accompanied for much of the route by...
Last Shrike of the year
In driving rain and wind that made it difficult for the shrike to stay on its post and with an overcast sky producing a permanent sensation ...
Brambling - Screetham Lane
The photos are of a mixed finch feeding flock on Screetham Lane numbering several hundered birds, the photos show mainly Brambling which loo...
Common Buzzard
There was a brief respite from the rain and overcast skies this morning. This Common Buzzard drifted over Chatsworth and the Great Spotted W...
Common Gull
It rained more or less all day yesterday and the river Derwent has burst its banks in several places producing a large number of flooded fie...
Moth Trapping Totals 2012
I'm not expecting any significant moth catches now and have just totalled up this years records. I ran the trap on 138 days and caught a...
Foot It Challenge
I've entered the birding Foot It Challenge - record as many species as you can whilst travelling only on foot in your local area during...
Grey Squirrel - Bent Lane
I took this photograph of a Grey Squirrel yesterday but have spent today photographing Red Squirrels with James, Ali Hood and James Shooter ...
Kestrel take off
This male Kestrel had clearly seen something, he was certainly staring very intently as he took off. I think they probably spend more time h...
Goshawk juvenile
Distant views of a juvenile Goshawk today, probably the same bird I saw on 15th September so it's good to see it doing well in its first...
Great Spotted Woodpecker - portrait
It's been fairly miserable weather today, there were still several small parties of Waxwing around in Darley Dale, Peak Village and at E...
Little Egret - Rowsley
Another good find for Ken Smith and Mel Hayes this morning, a Little Egret just north of Rowsley feeding in the drainage ditches towards Con...
Curbar sunrise
James took this photo at the weekend which is remarkable both for the quality of the image and the fact that he was up early enough to catch...
House Sparrow - Youlgrave
Despite suffering a UK population decline of 70% in the last 25 to 30 years the House Sparrow is still a familiar and common species in the ...
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