Sightings Archive

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult ; Red-legged Partridge - 7

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Moorhen - 15 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - c90 ; Coot - 13 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Greylag Goose - 1

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Common Buzzard - 1 - disturbed from trees ; Siskin - 1 - over

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Mallard - c90 ; Wigeon - 1pr ; Cormorant - 6 - E ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 32 - in adjacent field ; Mute Swan - 6 - pair + 4 2cy ; Moorhen - 11 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Muscovy Duck

Whirlow: Treecreeper - 1

Wisewood (Low Matlock Lane): Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Woodhouse Washlands: Jack Snipe - 1 ; Snipe - 50+

Attercliffe: Cormorant - 1 - Roosting on buildings overlooking the river don.

Chatsworth Park: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - Still with Canada goose flock

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 2 - 1 calling, answered by another before dawn. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Briefly in set aside field at first light. ; Magpie - 10+ - Flew from roost in willows. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Pheasant - 1

Grindleford: 324 - 1 - Red Deer stag in trees opposite Maynard Arms

Hillsborough: Blackcap - 1 - female in garden

Hillsborough Park: Collared Dove - 53 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - #NAME? ; 324 - 1 - Canada x Barnacle Goose (paired with Greylag) ; 322 - 1 - Muscovy Duck

Holmebrook Valley Park: Gadwall - 2 - 1M, 1F ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female ; Greylag Goose - 1 - Still on lake ; Bullfinch - 7+

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 12 - colouring up nicely

R Derwent, between Grindleford & Leadmill Bridge: Dipper - 3 ; Goosander - 1f

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Great Black-backed Gull - c60 - including colour ringed bird ringed as a chick in the Kattegat, Denmark in 2015 ; Herring Gull - c120 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ad and 1w ; Black-headed Gull - c100

Ringinglow: Golden Plover - 18 - low over SSE ; Starling - 60 - Glasshouse Lane ; Fieldfare - 47 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Glasshouse Lane ; Kestrel - 1 - female Glasshouse Lane

Rivelin: Siskin - c20 - feeding by Rivelin Motor Company on Stannington Road.

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1+

Rother Valley CP: Goldeneye - 6 - On main lake 3 males ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2

Sharrow: Magpie - 55 - c. gathering on rooftops at Napier Street

Silverwood Lagoon: Goldeneye - 2 - male + female ; Gadwall - 16 ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Cormorant - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 17 - inc.7left w ; Greylag Goose - 46 - 1 on; 5 and 40 in from north ; Canada Goose - 54 ; Gadwall - 6 - 3pr ; Shoveler - 5 - m ; Pochard - 16 - all m ; Tufted Duck - 26 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Golden Plover - 1 - past s ; Lapwing - 250+ - on dam ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Dunnock - 7 ; Robin - 20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 - party ; Chaffinch - 9 ; Brambling - 1 - f ; Siskin - 1 - past ne ; Bullfinch - 9 - 7m ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3m1f ; Yellowhammer - 1 - f