Pink waxcap
This beautiful pink fungus appears in late summer and autumn.
This beautiful pink fungus appears in late summer and autumn.
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Who would have thought I would be writing a blog about one of the most amazing birds ever to visit the UK!
To see a wild Bearded Vulture in the wild in the Peak District National Park was…
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Although numbers of some bird of prey species have increased this year, it remains a bleak picture for birds of prey in the Peak District
Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative is failing. That’s the conclusion we've come to this week following the release of the Initiative’s annual statistics.
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Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
Reports have come in overnight that two male hen harriers have disappeared in the Peak District.