by hoegrangequarry | Oct 12, 2022 | October 2022
Just as we thought that the flight period of the third brood Wall Brown was over in Derbyshire, a fresh male was seen yesterday (10th) in the Methodists Churchyard in Belper by Adrian & Rebecca Rochford, who are also currently preparing a wildflower meadow in the...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 11, 2022 | October 2022
After a week of fairly changeable weather at least the day time temperatures have kept reasonably high and, with no night time frosts as yet, a reasonable number of our local butterflies have been seen on the wing in the County. In fact there have been sightings of 11...
by hoegrangequarry | Oct 5, 2022 | October 2022
First of all a big thank you to the 350 or so volunteers who carry out butterfly transects in the County – it has been another difficult year after the covid epidemic, but this time mainly due to the changing weather – who would have thought that we would have reached...
by hoegrangequarry | Sep 27, 2022 | September 2022
Now that the Autumnal Equinox has passed we are now facing 6 months of longer and colder nights, which have already started, but at least the reservoirs will start to fill up again once the Atlantic starts to throw its weather fronts at us. Despite this scenario, many...
by hoegrangequarry | Sep 20, 2022 | September 2022
Despite the fact that the Autumnal Equinox will soon be upon us, the weather during the last week has been quite benign with most days having a decent amount of sunshine on offer, although the last few days have had a somewhat cool N W airflow which didn’t help our...
