I had a good half hour by the woodland this morning on the way back from my Breeding Bird Survey. A few insects have emerged (finally!) and in the cool of the morning, were slow enough to photograph - here are the day's images.... These are the...

The following course has been advertised on the Derbyshire Natural History Yahoo chat group and may be of interest to some of you: Paul Shaw is running an adult education course about taking photos of birds in flight this Sunday (10.30 to 4pm) at Carsington...

Regular readers of this blog and of our social media feeds on Twitter and Facebook will remember the promise of some photos from last week of the day's insect finds. Well, here we go starting with the first Adela reaumurella ( longhorn moth ) of the...

It was Wetland Bird Survey ( WeBS ) time again today and many thanks to volunteer Stuart Carlton for doing the survey for us! Here are Stuart’s results – 35 tufted duck 33 mallard 9 gadwall 6 shelduck 4 pochard 2 shoveler...

Volunteer Sunday was upon us once again last weekend and what a glorious day we had for some site maintenance tasks in the morning, followed by the annual bird race in the afternoon. 9 people arrived bright and early for some polytunnel work, car park...