Sightings Archive

Upper Common, Scholes: Redwing - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2+ ; Magpie - 7+

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Common Buzzard - 2 ; Raven - 2 ; Nuthatch - 5 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Siskin - 20+ - some singing ; 324 - 1 - comma butterfly

Barlborough: Bullfinch - 2 - M+F ; Blue Tit - C6 ; Great Tit - C8 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2 - All these together feeding in one garden

Blue Man*s Bower: Canada Goose - 34 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - both adults ; Mallard - 2prs

Brightholmlee: Barn Owl - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Song Thrush - 1 - singing around dawn ; 320 - 15 - 10m; 5f, displaying noisily ; Shoveler - 4 - drakes ; Mallard - 12 ; Mute Swan - 3 - family party (resident pair + 1cy) ; Gadwall - 27 ; Tufted Duck - 12 - 11m; 1f ; Pochard - 7 - 6m; 1f ; Coot - 8 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Moorhen - 4+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - 1 imm male, hunting ; Grey Heron - 2 - adults, inc one in from river ; Cormorant - 2 - imms ; Goosander - 12 - 3 redheads in from S; 6 N, then W/NW; 1pr N; 2 redheads S ; Black-headed Gull - 60-70 - dropped in, post-roost

Catcliffe Meadows: Stock Dove - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Canada Goose - 30 ; Wigeon - 30

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 1 - First record for a while. ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ - 31 down on Res. More feeding on surrounding farmland. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Feeding on sodden farmland. ; Kestrel - 1 - Female on telegraph pole. ; 319 - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 - All Males on Arbour Lane. ; Greenfinch - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 6

Ford: 321 - 1 - over

Harthill Res: Cormorant - 7 - flew NW ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 30 ; Little Egret - 1 - flew W over Bottom Res at 08:38 - later seen on Pebley Pond ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - c. ; Blackbird - 10 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1

Holbrook Marsh: Grey Wagtail - 1

Kinder Scout: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - on path, on north edge of Kinder

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - female in central area 15:00. ; Kingfisher - 1 - on top pond 15:20 ; Mallard hybrid - 14

Monsal Dale: Little Grebe - 1 - on R. Wye ; 320 - 5 - on R. Wye ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Dipper - 2 - on R. Wye - including one singing ; Goldfinch - 10

Moss Valley: Jay - 1

Old Flatts Farm, Treeton: Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Redwing - c30 - feeding in paddock ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 2prs - inc song ; Jackdaw - 14 - single flock, over to E

Pebley Pond: Little Egret - 1 - flew in from over Harthill Res ; Little Egret - 1 - 14:30-14:45 - Seen around the area for a few days now. ; Mute Swan - 3 - 2 Adult 1 juvenile ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Mallard - 21 ; Coot - C6 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - C58 ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Chaffinch - 55 - c. feeding in fields ; Linnet - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Poolsbrook CP: House Sparrow - 60 - c. feeding on newly erected feeders

Poolsbrook Marsh: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling at 11:10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Treecreeper - 2

R Rother, Treeton: Little Grebe - 1