The Avenue Washlands sighting report by Graham Wilson
Butterflies at The Avenue
It’s great news that hen harriers have returned to breed successfully in the Peak District for the first time in 3 years with 4 chicks fledging from their moorland nest.
Green Woodpecker is being heard regularly and a lone juvenile has been seen.
The morning period was given over to coverage of the SK21 transect for butterfly recording.
If we want to see our countryside, our farmland rich in nature's bounty and be proud of our small islands astonishing variety, we should all be allowing and encouraging the return of nature…