Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Pochard - 1 - drake ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Mute Swan - 8 - 1pr + nest; 6 SW @ 0743hrs (SK4695) ; Tufted Duck - 21 ; Shoveler - 1pr ; Gadwall - 38 - mostly paired ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr - displaying ; Bullfinch - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - 1 over; 1 calling (SK4595) ; Stock Dove - 6 - 4 inc 1 singing; 2 in aerial display (SK4695) ; Blackcap - 5 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 13 - inc 11 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3prs ; Pheasant - 3 - crowing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Greylag Goose - 4 - W/NW

Thrybergh; Carr Lane/Hooton Brook: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Apperknowle: Golden Plover - 150 - circling over Moortop Farm

Back Tor, Derwentdale: Golden Plover - 5 - 2p in flight, one territorial bird

Big Moor: Snipe - 3 - Display

Crimicar Drive: Blackcap - 1 - Male regularly visiting garden feeders

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 10+ ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Coot - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 5+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - 1 pr

Dukes Road: Red Kite - 1 ; Raven - 5

Green Moor: Brambling - 7 ; Siskin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Greystones garden: Brambling - 2 - Males ; Bullfinch - 2 - M&F

Hollin Bank: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. Mobile.

Holmebrook Valley Park: Nuthatch - 2 - 2 seen, 1 heard calling. ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 heard singing, 1 carrying nest material. ; Blackcap - 3 - all singing, 1 seen. ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 3 singing, 1 seen carrying nest material. ; Wren - 1 - 1 seen, singing. ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing.

Hurlfield: House Martin - 1 - flew low east at 13:50 ; Common Buzzard - 4 - 3 together at 13:40 1N at 14:15 ; Sparrowhawk - 2

Kiveton Community Woodland: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting the rough corner of the field just to the South of the site. ; Snipe - 1 - Flew through NE calling.

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - Male singing from reedbed 7am. ; Water Rail - 2 - In reedbed calling. ; Moorhen - 5+ - 2ad & 3+recently fledged young. ; Mallard - 11 - 4pair +2M+1F ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing 07:20 ; Blackcap - 4 - all males singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Greenfinch - 5+ - inc 4 displaying males ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Linnet - 6 ; House Sparrow - 8+ - min 4pairs ; Starling - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 18 - mostly males, with at least 7 pairs ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - flew over North

Middle Common: Skylark - 1 - sing

Middleton Moor: Red Kite - 1 ; Wheatear - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Fieldfare - 55 ; Snipe - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Millhouses Lane garden: Brambling - 8+ - m4, f4 continuing their regular daily visits, the males gradually assuming their breeding season black heads ; Bullfinch - 4+ - m3, f1 ; Greenfinch - 2 - m1, f1 at different times ; Goldfinch - 1 - on its own ; Blackbird - 1 - m ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - m, f feeding on suet balls, the f this morning, the m this afternoon ; Woodpigeon - 3 - one foraging most of the afternoon, the others billing and cooing in a nearby tree ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Dunnock - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - all feeding on the feeders dispensing sunflower hearts or suet balls or on the ground underneath

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pr ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 1