Great weather for butterflies at the moment with Orange Tip, Green Veined White, Peacock, Meadow Brown, Small Tortoiseshell, Speckled Wood and Small Skipper all seen on the wing recently at Dove Stone. male Orange Tip on Herb Robert We have some...

Last week saw the launch of the State of Nature report. As you may have heard the report states that whilst there have been some success stories, 60% of the species studied for the report have declined, and 31% of those have declined strongly. For more...

It's been a while since I last blogged, with news of Common Redstart at Dove Stone, being the last update to the Dove Stone reserve 2013 Bird List . Saturday saw my first sighting of Swfits at Dove Stone for this year with one flying over Dove Stone...

On Sunday we had our first record for this year of Common Redstart , that's a new one for the 2013 Dove Stone Birdlist , which brings our species total up to 63 for this year. There were also some very good views of the Peregrines at the weekend....

Here's the latest from Dove Stone. Good additions to our reserve 2013 birdlist with Mealy Redpoll (59) being seen earlier in the week up at Binn Green. In terms of id, Mealy Redpoll are larger and paler than Lesser Redpoll. Today we've had Whinchat...