Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve

Whilst the local farmers have been busy cutting hay, our team have been hard at work harvesting some of our valuable MG4 grassland seed, whi...

The Lower Derwent valley has long been known as an important site for breeding Garganey – a migratory duck which comes to the UK for the sum...

Each year whilst carrying out our bird ringing and monitoring of small bird populations around the NNR, we are usually lucky enough to catch...

The moth trap has been a joy to check recently, despite the very early starts due to the overly warm weather. Large numbers of moths have be...

Over the last few weeks we have taken a number of successful cannon net catches as part of a new project to colour-ring a sample of our Litt...