Sightings Archive

Whitwell Moor: Wren - 2 - calling from bracken ; Swallow - 2+ - over ; Chiffchaff - 1 - juvenile ; Goldfinch - c8 - feeding on thistle seed heads ; Meadow Pipit - c3

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 4 - 3 NE; 1 on pylon

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Raven - 1 - left N @ 0730hrs ; Peregrine - 1pr - m on chimney from c0630hrs with frequent sorties; f on adjacent roof from c0745hrs then both on adjacent chimneys

Haywood, Grindleford: 319 - 1

Padley: 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Padley Gorge: Song Thrush - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 5

Parkgate; *Banana* plantatin: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Chiffchaff - 5 - in mobile tit-flock, inc 2 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - in mixed flock ; Goldcrest - 2+ ; Stock Dove - 2 - circled & left N ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - in from N ; Meadow Pipit - 13 - single flock, low to S ; Coal Tit - 1 - in mixed flock (inc song) ; Swallow - 2 - S ; Blue Tit - 20+ - in mobile flock ; Great Tit - c10 - in mobile flock ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over to E, possibly same returning shortly after & leaving N

R Derwent, Grindleford: Dipper - 1

Redmires Top Res: Goldfinch - 4 - feeding on thistle heads. ; Goldfinch - 4 - 2nd picture same bird

Roundwood Golf course: Kestrel - 1 - f/juv, over N ; Carrion Crow - 8 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Mistle Thrush - 11

Silverwood Lagoon: Short-eared Owl - 1 - went up from rough grass above north-east corner of lagoon at 06.35

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Starling - c300 - flocking on wires

Thrybergh: Mute Swan - 6 - SW (from Thrybergh CP to canal basin) @ 0702hrs ; Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over together briefly @ 0728hrs

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 10 ; Greylag Goose - 29 ; Canada Goose - 205 ; Tufted Duck - 41 ; Lapwing - 80 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 - + ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 1s2s ; Sand Martin - 60 - + ; Swallow - 4 - + ; House Martin - 150 - #NAME? ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - prob. s ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 27 - most feeding in shelter h/rows ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 - + in 2party ; Starling - 200 - over s boundary

Wadsley Common garden: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - Sallying from willow tree. First garden record in 23 years of recording. ; Willow Warbler - 1

White Edge: Kestrel - 1

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - first adult for several months. ; Common Gull - 1 - Warren St

Barbrook Valley: Whinchat - 3

Canklow Woods: Jackdaw - 101 - 101 west at 1930

Clod Hall Cross Roads: Raven - 8 - 8 circling high over and moving slowly NE. ; Whinchat - 1

Ewden Height: Meadow Pipit - 80+ - 52 south (7 - 7.45am) ; Tree Pipit - 1 - Flew toward Whitwell Moor calling ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SE ; House Martin - 50+ - Large group appeared and fed in area before moving south ; Swallow - 4 - south ; Stock Dove - 1 - south ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair south calling ; Cormorant - 3 - Flew towards Midhope Res.

Handsworth: Mistle Thrush - 3 - Feeding round headstones at cemetery.

Millhouses Park: Moorhen - 4 - 2 adults and two juvs. ; 319 - 1 - Over low, calling continuously.

Norfolk Park: Bullfinch - 1 - juvenile male coming into adult plumage in garden in Beeches Hollow ; Blue Tit - 2+ - searching for spider's webs on garden shed, Beeches Hollow ; Robin - 1 - in garden Beeches Hollow

Rivelin Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - In observers garden ; Little Owl - 2 - On dry stone wall at Coppice Farm

Silver Wood: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over small playing field south of Hollings Lane

Silverwood Lagoon: Canada Goose - 70 - south at 06.40 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - south ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - juvenile ; House Martin - 15 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Jackdaw - 5 - small party north ; Reed Bunting - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Jay - 5 ; Linnet - 20

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - in scrub along Steel Valley Walk.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 16 - inc.3j