Sightings Archive

Shirebrook Valley: Redwing - 30+ ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Jay - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 30+ ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 6+

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 1 - Calling. ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 48 ; Gadwall - 15 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Water Rail - 2+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 60 ; Fieldfare - 33 ; 319 - 1 - Feeding on earth worms ; Sparrowhawk - 1F

Beauchief Golf Course: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flew over top pond ; Mallard - 6 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5

Canklow: House Sparrow - 11 - to garden feeders

Damflask Res: Mandarin - c20

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 4 - Resident group still present seem to get on now. ; Mallard - 10+ - Main Res. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On Sluice. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Single over. ; 319 - 1 - Over sluice low. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew over woodland chased by Mistle Thrush. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Call from willows. ; Fieldfare - 5+ ; Redwing - 20+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Chasing Sparrowhawk. ; Pheasant - 2+ - Flew into site away from shoot in adjacent fields. ; Jackdaw - 1 - Over. ; 322 - 1 - Juv Male Peacock on path. ; 324 - 1 - Brown Hare.

Graves Park: Nuthatch - 3 - heard ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Great Hucklow: Jackdaw - 250 - c. in fields pre-roost

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - f, first of winter, commuting between pyracantha and ornamental date palm

Kimberworth Park: Fieldfare - 20+ - NE over Roughwood Rec ; Magpie - 9 - in tree, bottom of Grey Hill

Loxley Valley: Dipper - 1 - singing on River Loxley near Olive Wheel Dam

Malin Bridge: 319 - 1 - low overhead, mobbed by Black-headed Gulls

Middleton Moor: 320 - 46 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Lapwing - 83 ; 320 - 27 ; Lapwing - 50 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 56 - roosted ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - First-winter roosted with LBBs ; Starling - 2000 - c. roosted

Millhouses: 319 - 3 - Drifting north at 10:30, mobbed by several Carrion Crows.

Norton Lees: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flying over Derbyshire Lane

Oaking Bank: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in daylight

Old Wheel millpond: Canada Goose - c80 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2 males, 1 female ; Greylag Goose - 1 - with Canada Geese

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - C. 200 - NW at 09:30 ; Raven - 1 - South ; Dunlin - 1

Owlthorpe garden: Greenfinch - 2 - 1M, 1F on bird feeder ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Dunnock - 2

Padley: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Padley Manor ruins

R Derwent, Harper Lees: 321 - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead

Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 1 ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2

RVCP, Main Lake: Whooper Swan - 3

Silverwood Lagoon: Snipe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - female and immature ; Coot - 18 ; Black-headed Gull - c.100 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - heard to north at 08.25 ; Redwing - 50 ; Fieldfare - 50 ; Jay - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 ; Meadow Pipit - 2

Thrybergh CP: Whooper Swan - 2 - at 08:00 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4

Walkley garden: Redwing - 6 - Flighty birds in top of ash and silver birch