In 2010 the BBC published my photograph of the drift overhanging Wigley Cutting: Following the recent bad weather I have been back to see how it looks now. Here is the view from around the same spot this morning: Perhaps … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
After being kept off the Moor for a few days by the weather it was good to be out again today. The trees always make great silhouettes against the snow: Mine were the first human footprints down in Barbrook Plantation … Continue reading
I know this is a bit outside my patch but The Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project has me fascinated every year. The same pair of peregrines have had a success in breeding over the last 6 years and it is all … Continue reading
Eastern Moors staff heard their first curlew for 2013 last week, but I only heard my first one while at Shillito Wood this morning and then there were several more near Swine Sty. With snow forecast for the next 2 … Continue reading
A lot of excitement and aerial activity at feeding time! 12 different species in an hour at Shillito Wood. Blue tit, great tit, coal tit, yellowhammer, reed bunting, blackbird, robin, nuthatch, siskin, chaffinch, goldfinch and dunnock. … Continue reading
I’m sure these birds are much tamer than they used to be The secret seems to be that if you go to Shillito Wood car park, you need to take some sunflower seeds with you! … Continue reading
Unlike my daughter, I love frogs! The more the better for me. That’s why last year I was really pleased to see the huge volumes of frogspawn in the Little Reservoir on the Bar Brook. By early May many of … Continue reading
Towards the end of last year there was much activity on the Moor with heather being cut in various places. Here are a couple of pictures taken last October showing the bags of heather being collected up near the Hurkling … Continue reading