Oscar Dewhurst – Spotted Flycatcher

  Oscar writes: this Spotted Flycatcher turned up one day at Minsmere over the Spring in the bushes behind East Hide. I don’t see them much down at home in London so was pleased to be able to get a few images of one here. It was catching flies in the scrub and fortunately this…

All in all it’s just another death on the moor

Suggested by Rachael Conway To the music of Pink Floyd’s Brick in the Wall? We don’t want no persecution We don’t want no brood control An end to killing on the moorland Shooter leave our birds alone Hey shooter leave our birds alone All in all it’s just another death on the moor   Ban…

Henry heading to the Goyt Valley tomorrow

For full details and a useful map – click here. If you are coming from Buxton, up the A5004 you have to look out for the turn off to the Goyt Valley just as you go into the Peak District National Park (see the sign on the right?). There’s the turning on the left There…

Henry looking forward to Hen Harrier Eve – what a star he is!

If you haven’t already bought a ticket then you aren’t joining 275 of us for an evening celebrating the Hen Harrier tomorrow evening. Right now – I just hope the technology works, that the bar doesn’t run out of beer, that the speakers keep to time and all those other practical worries that go with…