Looks like a positive outcome for the Buzzard with the government u-turn on the proposed control of this bird of prey - for now. There's been plenty written and blogged about this elsewhere but just wanted to throw in two links to Mark Avery's...

A quick update on a couple of sightings today. Crossbills have been seen up at Binn Green with the males looking particularly spectacular. Over at Chew Brook we've had sightings of Tree Pipit . At Dove Stone, of course, our main Pipit is the Meadow...

Great to see Crossbills at Binn Green. And really great views of them yesterday feeding on quite low Larch branches, rather than in tops of these trees as seems to be more usual. The male was looking particulary stunning.

Time for our round-up from our volunteer work-parties on what's been happening around Dove Stone in May. Thanks to John for taking the time to put this together: ''We started by planting 300 trees in Lower Hollins plantation, above the...

Take a look at this rather handsome looking hoverfly, found at Binn Green last week - the white band across the abdomen and the black wing patches are really quite something ! It's Leucozona lucorum, a common hoverfly throughout the UK, not...