Walk from Castleton to Mam Tor highlights: Wheatear (3) Stonechat (4) Linnet (2) Walk from Hope to Win Hill highlights: Redstart (4) Pied Flycatcher (2) Wheatear (1) Linnet (2)

11-2:
4 Raven
Curlew
5 Skylark
4 Meadow Pipit
Peregrine Falcon
Kestrel
Chiffchaff

National trust car park 1.30 C 100 brambling feeding under beech trees, plenty of blue great and coal tits around and one male stone chat at the start of the path up to mam tor.

3 Skylark were todays highlight
Also Raven

10.30-12.30
Peregrine
Raven
Goldcrest in castleton village
Flock of birds near mam tor farm very Waxwing like, but couldn't relocate. Worth checking if anyone in the area?
Kestrel

Lovely weather this am, and with 3 kids in tow some great wildlife. Easyish walk for those with kids.
Good numbers of butterflies/ moths/ grasshoppers too for added interest.

And a great place it is, spent a holiday there as a kid and revisited in April about eight years ago - it was hotter then than it is now

Couple of hours walk this am from Blue John Cavern- Hollins Cross-Mam Tor
Highlights:
4 Whinchat, inc 2 juvenilles
Raven
Peregrine
4 Willow Warbler
15 Goldfinch
Many Swallow, some House Martin/Swift
15 Meadow Pipit
Sparrowhawk