Maintained by Trevor and Dilys Pendleton, eakringbirds.com is an increasingly comprehensive natural history web resource for Eakring and the Sherwood Forest area of north Nottinghamshire. Primarily, the main objective of this website, is to monitor the birds found around the villages of Eakring and Kersall, recording migrants, breeding numbers and looking for the occasional rarity etc, but an ever increasing amount of webspace has been given over to recording the invertebrate fauna of this area of agricultural farmland over the past ten years. This may not be to everyone's taste or interest, but part of our aim, is to help stimulate an expansion of interest in all aspects of Nottinghamshire natural history.

During 2008, eakringbirds.com showed a much greater emphasis towards the invertebrate fauna of Sherwood Forest NNR and Coleoptera in general. Despite living within a mile of Sherwood Forest for twenty years, we had never visited it much, but since the accidental discovery of the Hazel Pot Beetle in 2008 and a subsequent development of an interest in Coleoptera, we have suddenly found ourselves becoming increasingly more involved with both SSSI's which make up the ancient Sherwood Forest. Apart from surveys, much of our time since December 2008 has been taken up creating long ovedue site species lists for both groups and with other lists still presently in the planning stage.

It is still surprising how little is known about the distribution of many invertebrate groups within the county and it has certainly surprised us in recent years. Despite there being people in Nottinghamshire with an active interest in insects, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge of their distribution within the county and even if they still occur at all. Our recent involvement with some Coleoptera and Lepidoptera survey work at Sherwood Forest in 2008, proved this to us. We relied heavily on J.W. Carr's book "The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire" published back in 1916, for a great deal of information, but then found that there was little published invertebrate coverage until the 1980's and 1990's.

Hopefully, you will find something of interest at eakringbirds.com. Many pages are updated on an almost daily basis, and the site now boasts a total of around 1, 900 pages, with over a thousand species featured in the various photo galleries we currently have available.