Sightings Archive

Morehall Res area: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Magpie - 1 ; Jay - 3

Oakes Park: 321 - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - c30 ; Mute Swan - 7 - much reduced numbers, due to lack of feeding during lockdown

Parkgate; Forge Way: Black-headed Gull - 23 - loafing on roof

Ringinglow: Swallow - 4 ; Swift - 1 ; House Martin - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Siskin - 2 - in paddocks alongside main approach track. First site record this year. ; Mute Swan - 2+ - pair and 6 well-grown cygnets ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Swift - c.15 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - NW ; Reed Warbler - 6+ - 2 singing, others feeding young

Thorpe Hesley: Redstart - 1

Treeton SF: Corvid - c120 - mixed RO & C, with a few JD. Lots of juvs ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - independent juvs ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Linnet - 2 - over ; House Martin - 3 - feeding over

Ulley Brook Bog: Whitethroat - 1 - scolding calls; carrying food ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Unstone: Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 2+ ; House Martin - 2 ; 324 - 3 - Meadow Brown

Barlow Common: Skylark - 1 - singing from a wall ; Swift - 5 ; Linnet - 8 ; House Martin - 2

Baslow Edge: Red Kite - 1 - Flying east towards Baslow Edge

Brownhills Lane: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 52 - In freshly cut fields this evening ; Herring Gull - 8 - With LBBGs in freshly cut fields this evening ; Black-headed Gull - 5 - With large gulls in freshly cut fields this evening- all adults ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult with other large gulls in freshly cut fields this evening ; Curlew - 44 - Feeding in freshly cut field this evening

Burbage Moor: Red Kite - 1 - soaring above, mobbed by 2 corvids at one point ; Kestrel - 4 ; Swift - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 6 - Family party. ; Mallard - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Over. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 6 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Jay - 1 - Calling ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Adult collecting food. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling ; Swallow - 5 - Feeding low over mown grass. ; House Martin - 10+ ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing Male. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing.

Graves Park: Mallard - 3+ - fems with ducklings

Handsworth: Hobby - 1 - 16.30 high over ahead of stormy weather

Hathersage: Chiffchaff - 2

Heeley: Ring-necked Parakeet - 6 - Flying S over Raleigh Road

Longshaw: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

Longshaw Lake: Mallard - 1+ - f with 4 ducklings ; Moorhen - 1

Malin Bridge: Long-tailed Tit - c7 - family party on feeders, unusual here ; Blue Tit - 1 - juv, presumably wandering with LTT party, not bred successfully in the surrounding gardens.

Middleton Moor: Reed Bunting - 2+ - 2 males taking food to nest sites ; Red-legged Partridge - 1+ - f with newly hatched brood of 14 running along track

Mitchell Field: Swallow - 4+ ; Curlew - 1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - both singing ; Yellowhammer - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - 3 singing ; Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; House Martin - 05-Oct ; Swift - c15 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - together in woodland; some calling, breeding probable ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Siskin - 1 - SW