Sightings Archive

Sunday 22nd May 2022

• Agden Rocher: Treecreeper - 1 - attending nest in stone wall. ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - attending nest box. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Adult with fledged juv. ; Blue Tit - 6 - 6 active nests around site. ; Redstart - 1 - breeding confirmed. ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Jackdaw - 83+ - single group flying around site. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red Kite - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - displaying bird. ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling around site.
• Bramley - Flanderwell Avenue: Swift - 40+ ; Hobby - 1 - Thorough at roof top height scattering Swifts.
• Burbage Valley: Whinchat - 2 - Pair ; Whinchat - 2 - Another photo ; Stonechat - 5 - Family group ; Stonechat - 5 - Another shot
• Catcliffe Flash: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - 1 on nest ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; 324 - 10 - Banded Demoiselle - male & female ; 324 - - Banded Demoiselle - female
• Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 - pair + 1 singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 - in bean crop ; Lapwing - 4 - in bean crop
• Cinder Bridge Plantation: Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 - on stream ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Cinder Bridge Road: Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - flock, inc fledged juvs ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing by Glossop Lodge
• Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 1 - female on wall near Agden Side Road ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing in scrub near Agden Side Road
• Edge Mount: Lapwing - 3 - adult with 2 small chicks .
• Firsby Res: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Whitethroat - 10 ; Blackcap - 6 ; Garden Warbler - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Pair male and female in sluice ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - A juvenile in sluice with Pied Wagtail ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - In paddock. ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Goldfinch - 9 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Robin - 12 - Inc many juvs ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 4 ; Mallard - 4+ - 1 male 3 female with broods of 10 - 6 - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - Over ; 319 - 7 - Including 3 in air together, ; Kestrel - 3 - 1 from nest site. ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Skylark - 05-Jun ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling ; Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Lapwing - 4 - 1 on set aside was first for a few years. ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - Over high. ; Swift - 7 ; Swallow - 14 ; House Martin - 5
• Foxhill, Shaw Hill: Swift - 1
• Frog Walk, Sharrow: Nuthatch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1
• Grange Park,Brick Kiln Plantation: Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing
• Grange Park,Ockley Bottom: Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ - Adult(s) taking food to nest, 30ft up dead tree, calls of chicks heard ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls
• Greystones garden: Starling - 10 - 4 Juveniles ; Swift - 1 - Over observer's garden
• Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 2 - ad on nest on Top Res