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A few from a great day yesterday at @north_lees_hall_farm (on Instagram) with Nick and Liz. They were sorting the in-lamb ewes ready for release on to the open moorland. I took quite a lot of photographs to give them plenty of content because somehow in their manically busy days they are hoping to use InstagramContinue reading “Storytelling”

Multi-agency presence for another day of engagement and enforcement activity as part of the launch of the Rural Crime Initiative from @southyorksmca and South Yorkshire Police. Really good opportunity for the @eastern_moors_partnership rangers to undertake networking and knowledge sharing particularly with our friends in the Off Road and Rural Crime Policing Team. ‘Slight’ sympathy forContinue reading “Teamwork”

Perhaps my favourite story of Springtime … There was a tradition amongst the Brown Edge quarrymen concerning the first bumblebee of the summer. When the first bee of the year was seen, the then owner of the quarry, Henry Hancock, put five shillings to the men’s two shillings and the youngest quarryman was detailed toContinue reading “Spring Has Sprung”

from the edge(s) and moor(s). More words in due course.

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 2000, you must keep your dog on a lead no more than 2 metres long on open access land between 1 March and 31 July – to protect ground-nesting birds. And also in livestock areas. On Public Rights of Way (footpaths, bridleways etc indicated on an Ordnance Survey map)Continue reading “Legalese”

This is a story about 2 kittens that were dumped in their carry crates over a wall on to Ramsley Moor on the eastern edge of the Peak District. Watch this … Then watch this quite remarkable bit of thermal drone footage … In the military we used to talk about the ‘shock of capture’Continue reading “Ramsley”

Dear Owners, When you stopped in the lay-by in late January and dumped us in our carry-cases over the wall on the moors you probably thought that was the end of us. You could’ve just rang a cats shelter. Were we that bad ? We had been surviving on food out of a nearby binContinue reading “If Cats Could Write”

This one isn’t about sunshine or wildlife.  But it might help someone close to you enjoy both for longer ! I have a bit of experience in finding people using ‘digital means’. I used to work for a small bit of a very big organisation that did ‘this sort of stuff’. I still keep myContinue reading “Looking Out For Linda”

Apparently the British Mountaineering Council and Moors for the Future are combining to fund and recruit the ‘first *dedicated* wildfire ranger for the Peak District’s Eastern Moors’.  It says so here …. Note the use of the word dedicated. The dictionary defines ‘dedicated’ thus; So if the soon-to-be-appointed Wildfire Ranger is ‘the first dedicated’ oneContinue reading “Dedicated”

** viewer discretion advised on some of the photographs herein I failed to find anyone to convert the 14000 words and 100+ photos of the review of my rangering in 2025 (‘A Year On The Moors’), so it has had an edit of the words but will have to stay as a web based article.Continue reading “Pieces of January”