FEATURING………Tony Davison, local birder, lister (490 to date) and moth and butterfly expert, has a great website, filled with images and a blog of his visits to destinations in search of these creatures. Take a look and enjoy the content.
Tony is regularly found at most Derbyshire bird sites, searching for the next Derbyshire rarity and will always stop and have a chat about birds, moths, or photography.
Click here to visit Tony’s website.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is working with local landowners and neighbouring Wildlife Trusts on an exciting project to bring ospreys to the Trent Valley. Ospreys are migratory birds of prey which travel to Britain in spring to breed before returning to Africa during the winter period. The Trent Valley is a significant flyway and stopping off point for ospreys on their migration to and from Scotland. However, because these birds traditionally return to the area where they were born the probability of breeding ospreys in the valley has been virtually nil. There is a successful population of breeding birds at Rutland Water and with a growing number of young returning, these birds are likely to seek new nesting sites away from established pairs. The Trent Valley is not far from Rutland Water (65 km from Willington and only 47 km from Attenborough) and if nest platforms are provided we hope that birds, particularly males, may spread into the valley from the Rutland population.
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‘The History of Birdwatching Part 2 – 1939 onwards’ by Peter Gibbon (the ‘long-awaited’ sequel !!). Entrance £2 members and £2.50 non-members.
Tuesday 18 October 2011 – Hognaston Village Hall from 7.30pm
Joint Carsington Bird Club/Derbyshire Ornithological Society. Graham Appleton, Director of Communications, BTO presents “Four years of Atlas Work”. All welcome: £1 members, £1.50 non-members, includes refreshments.
Catch up with the birds sighted in August 2011.
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Bird of the Month for August – Barn Owl ( Tyto alba )
With heart shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white under parts the barn owl is a distinctive and much loved countryside bird. Widely distributed across the UK, and indeed the world, the bird has suffered declines over the past fifty years as a result of the degradation of once prey-rich habitats in the face of intensive agricultural practices.
They have AMBER Status.
was formed in January 2003. We are a group of mammal enthusiasts who wish to increase the information about the distribution of mammals throughout the County. We focus in particular on those species which do not already have their own local interest group and/or those which are currently under recorded in Derbyshire. Click here to break out into a separate window.
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