Sightings Archive

Rough Wood: Great Tit - 1+ - adult feeding 2+ fledged young ; Coal Tit - 1+ - adult feeding single young ; Garden Warbler - 1

Shillito Wood: Siskin - 1 - ad male ; Blue Tit - 5+ - inc juvs ; Great Tit - 6+ - inc juvs ; Chaffinch - 12+ - inc juvs ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - juv ; Pheasant - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Blackbird - 1 - male ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 - 1 juv ; Robin - 1 - ad

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 1pr ; Coot - 12 - no broods yet ; Little Grebe - 3prs - no young yet ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Reed Bunting - 7+ - two pairs feeding young, 3 singing males ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Grey Heron - 1 - SW ; Cormorant - 1 - north ; Swift - 4 ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - c.15 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 5 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Jay - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Skylark - 6+ - pair and juvs, a couple singing

Treeton Dyke: Willow Warbler - 2 - inc 1 singing, N shore ; Mute Swan - 2prs+ - broods of 2 & 4 ; Coot - 25 - inc 1 juv ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Gadwall - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing, S shore ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr - breeding probable ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - leaving Typha at S end ; Blackcap - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing, N shore ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, N shore ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 7 - singing (6 in SK4386, 1 in SK4387)

Treeton meadows: Common Buzzard - 1 - over @ 1030hrs

Treeton; Hemmingway Close: Linnet - 1 - singing from roof of house

Treeton; Washfield Lane to Dyke: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1

Ulley CP: Mute Swan - 19 - no evidence of breeding ; Great Crested Grebe - 3-4prs - 2prs + broods of 1 & 2; 1pr nestbuilding + a possible 4th pair ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 2+ - + 2 independent juvs ; Coot - 10+ - + brood of 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 1pr - carrying food to nest, road bridge ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Gadwall - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Lapwing - 6 - NW ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling, S end

Ulley CP; Morthen arm: Song Thrush - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr+ - + brood of 2 ; Coot - 5 - inc 1 independent juv & a pair nestbuilding ; Chiffchaff - 6 - inc 3 singing; anxiety calls ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - dropped in

Ulley Lane & Holt: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Ulley; Green Lane: Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1

Ulley; Reservoir Road: Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Sand Martin - 2prs - nesting in Morthen arm road bridge

Upper Midhope: House Martin - 5+ ; 324 - 2 - domestic Guineafowl on road

Upper Whiston: Song Thrush - 5 - inc 2 singing

Walker Edge: Osprey - 1 - Came low over white lee woods heading east towards more hall res 11.05 am

Bramley: Herring Gull - 1 - Over Flanderwell Avenue. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Male and Female seen throughout the day.

Brownhills Lane: Little Owl - 1 - perched roadside

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Edale: QUAIL - c5 - several heard but not seen in wavy-hair grass moorland - Edale Moor ; 324 - c5 - on the moor, Northern Eggar Moths

Firsby Res: Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Over road through woodland to stream. ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - Noisy Juvs on stream near road.