Sightings Archive

Peat Pits: Wren - 1 ; Blackbird - 3 - feeding in horse field. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 39 - heading south. ; Merlin - 1 - sat on stone wall.

Redmires conduit: Sparrowhawk - 1

Redmires Res: 320 - 15 - c. ; Lesser Redpoll - 5

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - c80 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Magpie - 8 ; Jackdaw - 10+ ; Rook - 5+

Alport Valley: Fieldfare - 200+ - Feeding on hawthorn berries

Baslow: Fieldfare - 70 - Moving low to south at 10.30

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 105

Chatsworth Park: Red Kite - 2 - in air together ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Hangingwater garden: Treecreeper - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 - both male, one first winter. Possibly migrants as we had none in summer this year

Keppels Field: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Starling - c20 - top of Column ; Chaffinch - 3+

Kimberworth Park: Pied Wagtail - 1 - active around pavement on Ashworth Drive

Middleton Moor: Golden Plover - 113 ; Lapwing - 83 ; 320 - 68 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Dunlin - 3 - Again associating with Golden Plover flock ; Pink-footed Goose - 58 - SW at 09:45

Orgreave Lakes: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Wigeon - 5 - On small lake ; Stonechat - 2 ; Water Rail - 1

Owlthorpe: Mistle Thrush - 4 - in garden bordering Owlthorpe Fields ; Goldfinch - 25 - Large group in garden ; Blackbird - 2 - Male and Female in garden

Redmires Middle Res: Wigeon - 1 ; 320 - 8

Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 50+ - from ground ; Robin - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Walkley Bank: Greenfinch - 1 - on garden feeder - first sighting here for several months

Weston Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing 08:30

Aldwarke: Redwing - 1 - site now under development ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Woodcock - 1

Barlow Common: Redwing - c.20 - six showing well.

Centenary Riverside: Mallard - 15 - 7prs + 1 drake, on river ; Moorhen - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - on river ; 320 - 4 - 1m; 3f ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - female ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 - flock

Coal Aston: Jay - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 - flew over Coal Aston Airfield

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 - adult, W edge, juv in centre with gulls ; Greylag Goose - 18 - up several times from adjacent field to S ; Mallard - 30+ ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Forge Dam: Kingfisher - 1

Frecheville: Goosander - 24 - 10 males + 14 redheads on Frecheville pond.

Markham Vale: Redwing - 35 - c. ; Blackbird - 20 - c. ; Fieldfare - 20 - c. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling ; Song Thrush - 4

Mayfield Valley: Fieldfare - 8 - 5+2+1 ; Redwing - 12 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Jackdaw - 57+ - 37 in one group and at least 20 others scattered ; Rook - 20+ - scattered in pairs ; Carrion Crow - 10+ ; Pheasant - 4 - m

Middleton Moor: 320 - 68 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Goosander - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 - Landed briefly ; Golden Plover - 53 ; Lapwing - 64 ; Dunlin - 3 - Left (with most of golden plover ) when spooked by cormorant ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 222

Moss Valley, upper: Tawny Owl - 2 - calling

Orgreave Lakes: COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 1 - Among Lessers. ; Lesser Redpoll - c150 ; Stonechat - 5 - At least 5