Sightings Archive

Dog Kennel Pond: Coot - 1+ ; Lapwing - 30+ - W @ 14:10.

Dronfield: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - Hallowes golf course ; 319 - 1 - Hallowes golf course

Edale: 319 - 1 - Circling over the valley

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 30 - About 30 at 10:15 with only 2 left by 11:20

Fulwood garden: 319 - 4 - circling and mewing overhead

Gleadless Valley LNR: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Flew E from Carr Wood

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Green Moor: Brambling - 8 ; Brambling - 8

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male caught prey prob house sparrow, stayed for sev mins plucked and partialy ate victim before leaving with remains @ Remount Road. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Remount Road, 2nd individual at 16:40

Limb Valley: Common Buzzard - 07-Aug - circling over valley, viewed from Bole Hill

Lose Hill: Skylark - 1 - Singing

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - in watercourse. ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Song Thrush - 6 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 18+ ; Mallard - 8 - 4 pair on pond

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 5 - inc 2prs ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Coot - 3 ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Norton Lees: Goldfinch - c8

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 112

Pit-house West: Willow Tit - 1 - Singing at SK4516:8416 ; Willow Tit - 1 - Singing at SK4566:8407

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 16

Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 3 - in roadside trees ; Ringed Plover - 3 - in bed of reservoir, displaying. ; Pochard - 2 - 2 males feeding ; Mallard - 13+ ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Linnet - c20 - feeding on "shore" ; Chaffinch - c20 - some feeding on shore alongside Linnets ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - on shore ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Pochard - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 3 - displaying ; Reed Bunting - 2 - pair on moors just S of middle res. ; Curlew - 2 - flew over ; Meadow Pipit - c6 - on moors S of middle res. ; Song Thrush - 2 - one singing ; Goldfinch - c10 ; Dunnock - 2+ - at least 2 singing males ; Wren - 2+ - singing ; Red Grouse - 1+ ; Robin - 1+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Greenfinch - c3 - wheezing ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - c3

Roe Woods: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Male drumming then chasing female just south of Norwood Road

Thrybergh CP: Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 3 ; Brambling - 33

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing

Upper Ewden: Brambling - 21 - flew up valley from Broomhead Park late afternoon

Wadsley: Common Buzzard - 3+

Walkley garden: Collared Dove - 2 - Nest abandoned, single broken egg beneath.

Wingfield: Pied Wagtail - 1 - Opposite Roughwood Rec.

Big Moor: Curlew - 1 - calling at 16:30, observer's first back on Eastern Moors this year

Blacka Moor: Stonechat - 4

Blacka Moor woods: Tawny Owl - 1 - Male calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; 327 - 60 + - At least 60 possibly many more flitting low between trees. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing

Blackburn Meadows NR: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1230

Bull Piece: Lapwing - 30 - Birds back over area calling.

Carr Vale Nature Reserve: Chiffchaff - 2 - one of them a Siberian Chiffchaff ; Willow Tit - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 01-Feb ; Reed Bunting - 8+ ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Cowell Flat: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Rook - 20+ ; Pheasant - 4

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 9 - Trying to feed on berries next to bus shelter on Earsham Street,but scared off by Mistle Thrush at 12.38 towards Brunswick Road and Andover Street. ; Waxwing - c30 - 9:30, one colour ringed bird (just yellow right visible).

Fulwood garden: Siskin - 2 - first of the spring

Green Moor: Brambling - 5 ; Brambling - 5 ; Brambling - 5

Loxley Valley: Curlew - 20 - 30 - Heard them first ; Dipper - 1

Middleton Moor: Starling - 300 ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 ; Lapwing - 48