Watching wildlife is always an exciting experience, particularly when you seen something up close: for me this weekend at Dove Stone it was watching Treecreeper. It's a bird I've seen often but I was still blown away at how beautiful this small...

A quick update on what's out and about this month so far. This week at Binn Green we've seen Crossbills feeding on the Larch cones. Good one. In fact, the whole area around Binn Green has been absolutely buzzing so it's worth checking out...

A quick post before tonight just to say that we're still going ahead with this evening. A little bit of snow here but nothing settling - yet ! The Met Office are forecasting for clear skies this evening - but not until a little later...

Not long to go now. The snow arrived sometime in the early hours of this morning. However, not that much has fallen really so we should be okay for tonight. And the Met Office are now forecasting clear skies from 9pm; this is good ! Last night cleared...

This Friday sees Dove Stone first astronomy night. We originally chose this week in which to do this as the Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight. It's not a good year for them this year as the peak coincides with the moon being quite full, which obviously...