Weekend news from the reserve.

South Derbyshire Badger Group has identified several active setts on the reserve.

The last roost count was down to 12 birds.

A singing Goldcrest at Buck Bridge.

Hummingbird hawkmoth

Chesterfield Canal between Tapton Lock and the rail station.

Seven Black-tailed Godwits, circled for ten minutes then flew east.

My earliest ever juvenile Mediterranean Gull.

A water vole swimming.

A single Elm Tree just south of the reserve held at least two White Letter Hairstreaks