Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Pheasant - 3 - crow ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Swift - 20+ ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 4 ; House Martin - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - past e ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Whitethroat - 8 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Reed Bunting - 3 - sing ; Tern sp (Common/Arctic) - 1 - past n ; Hobby - 1 - past s 0755 ; Barn Owl - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Grey Heron - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 - Male

Barbrook Plantation: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Raven - 1

Barlow Common: Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Skylark - 1 ; Linnet - c.15 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, hunting ; Kestrel - 1 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Swift - 3+ ; House Martin - 3 ; Swallow - 4

Botanical Gardens: Swift - 5 - Finally come in.

Brownhills Lane: Pied Wagtail - 2 - a pair near junction with Lodge Moor lane.

Burbage: Stonechat - 1 - Male with food,presumably near nest. ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male,hear calling from rocks,flushed by walker,flew till out of sight across valley.

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - in the air at 0930

Crookes: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew across Conduit Road, darting over a rooftop.

Curbar: Swift - 3

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - Flying up stream ; Mandarin - 2 - Male & female on lower pond ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Lower pond ; Coot - 2 - On nest on lower pond

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - Chased up Reed stalk by angry coot. ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 4 - 3 Male, 1 Female. ; 319 - 2 - Pair together in tree. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - Feeding in recently mown set aside field. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male calling. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On concrete sluice. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Pair with nest. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing Male. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting early morning.

Fulwood: Reed Bunting - 1 - again at feeders in observer's garden ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders in observer's garden ; Swift - 1 - over W ; House Martin - 2 - over W ; 319 - 1 - over W

Hutcliffe Wood: Swift - 2

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Males ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - Top end of wood ; Redstart - 2 pair - Through gate at top of wood,birches at moor edge.

Redmires Bottom Res: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2 m & 1 f ; Common Sandpiper - 2

Redmires Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard only from path leading from Soughley Lane to bottom res

Rivelin Dams: Wood Warbler - 6 - 6 trilling this morning along main path.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 35 ; Mallard - 9 - 1f 8y ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 14 - 11m3f ; 319 - 4 - 1s3e soar ; Kestrel - 2 - singles hunt. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 - crow. ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Swift - 22+ ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Sand Martin - 30+ ; Swallow - 3+ ; House Martin - 4+ ; Blackbird - 17 - 4sing ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Whitethroat - 8 - 7sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - 02-Jan ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 2sing