Nature reserves
Take a look at our nature reserves. Discover where is best to bird watch, see butterflies, where is great for kids and where you can just get away from it all. Enjoy, Derbyshire is waiting for you!
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Accessible nature reserves
Accessibility is really important to us. Here are the reserves we recommend for visitors with limited mobility or pushchairs.
The Wild Peak Rounds: Connecting Nature Reserves, One Run at a Time
The Wild Peak Rounds link a number of our nature reserves in the Peak District to create a year-round challenge for walkers and runners. Including a combination of peaks, valleys and dales and up…
Holly
Holly is a much-loved evergreen tree - its shiny, spiky leaves and bright red berries being a favourite in Christmas decorations. Found in all kinds of habitats, it provides an important winter…
Drakelow Nature Reserve
The latest sightings from Thomas Cockburn
Holly blue
Look out for the small holly blue in your garden or local park. It is the first blue butterfly to emerge in spring, and a second generation appears in summer. The caterpillars are fond of holly…
The Avenue Nature Reserves sightings report by Brian Cuttell
3 bullfinches on the feeders
Sightings from Drakelow Nature Reserve
Thomas Cockburn talks us through the latest sightings at Drakelow Nature Reserve
Summertime at Thornhill Carrs Nature Reserve
In today’s blog we bring you a summer visit to Thornhill Carrs Nature Reserve, talking all about what you might see during this time of year and how this beautiful reserve is an example of…
Outdoor education gets the go ahead at one of Derbyshire’s premiere nature reserves
A new outdoor education area is set to be created at Hilton Gravel Pits Nature Reserve in the Trent Valley thanks to a £23,210 project funded by Veolia Environmental Trust through the Landfills…
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Down at Drakelow Nature Reserve
Thomas Cockburn fills us in with his latest sightings.