Sightings Archive

Grange Park Golf Course: Dunnock - 1+ - calls ; Robin - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 2+ ; Magpie - 6 ; Carrion Crow - 7 - feeding @ practice range ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - male in a holly tree at the bottom of a garden.

Ladybower Res, West arm: Mandarin - c.10 - Close to tree-lined shore by A57

Linacre Res: Mallard - 87 ; Tufted Duck - 22 ; Mandarin - 48 ; Moorhen - 13 ; Coot - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 24 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Old Flatts Farm, Treeton: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Redwing - c25 - feeding in Hawthorns ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - c75 ; Mute Swan - c80 - inc 7 1cy ; Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c60 ; Tufted Duck - 1

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c100 - circling low over Onesmoor Road. ; Golden Plover - c120 - over in flight

Redmires Bottom Res: Whooper Swan - 15 - dropped in at c08:35 ; Whooper Swan - 15 - 15, only 1 juv ; Whooper Swan - 15 - another photo

Redmires Res: Whooper Swan - 15 - 14 ads & a juv arrived from the SE at around 08:30 hrs - settled on Bottom Res

Silver Wood: Green Woodpecker - 1 - in lower woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Coot - 12 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Greylag Goose - 5 - south at 09.15 ; Snipe - 1 ; Rook - 10 - in stubble fields to west ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jackdaw - 8 - 3-2-1-1-1 west ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - north ; Skylark - 6 - a few in stubble to west ; Jay - 4 ; Goldfinch - c.15 ; Redwing - 8 - feeding in rowans below south-west corner of lagoon ; Reed Bunting - 6+ ; Long-tailed Tit - c.20

Tideswell Dale: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Flew over car park

Treeton SF: Jay - 1 - left E ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - c30

Treeton; Spa Hill: Peregrine - 1pr - aduts; hanging in wind/stooping at eachother & settling on pylons; interacting with 2 BZ

Treeton; Well Lane: Gadwall - 13 - over (to Catcliffe Flash?) ; Common Buzzard - 3 - over (same mobile birds)

Ulley Brook Bog: Shoveler - 1pr ; Gadwall - 3 ; Mallard - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over ; Herring Gull - c20 - in flooded field; flushed by BZ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Carrion Crow - c20 - mobbing BZs

Whiston Meadows: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Siskin - 01-Feb - over, unseen

Aldwarke Lane: Mute Swan - 3 - adult pair + 1cy adjacent to busy road.

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 17 - 12 on lower pond and 5 on upper

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 ; Jay - 2

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - c150 - on south shore hunkered down amongst rocks

Thrybergh CP: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling ; Little Owl - 1 ; 319 - 2 - One sat on hedge calling ; Redwing - 12 - Feeding in Hawthorns. ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Tufted Duck - c30 ; Pochard - 9 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4