Sightings Archive

Saturday 16th February 2019

• Green Moor: Brambling - 8+ - photo
• Linacre Res: Mallard - 64 - WeBS count ; Tufted Duck - 27 ; Mandarin - 28 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 7 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 1 pair displaying ; Black-headed Gull - 70 ; Goosander - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1
• Low Moor: Curlew - 1
• Manor Fields Park: Brambling - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Greenfinch - 7 ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Linnet - 1 ; Blackbird - 17 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 100+ - flew from site to adj cemetery at 16:25 poss to roost. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flew south at 16:03 ; Mallard - 15 - 8 drake on pond ; Moorhen - 7+
• Millhouses garden: Blackcap - 1 - male
• R Derwent, Calver Mill: Dipper - 3 - one towards Calver and 2 below Calver Weir ; Dipper - 3 - another photo ; Mandarin - 2 - single pair
• R Derwent, Froggatt: Goosander - 2 - pair upstream from bridge ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 4 ; Treecreeper - 3 - including one singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - feeding quietly ; Mandarin - 22 - on marsh between Froggatt and Calver Weir ; Mandarin - 22 - on marsh between Froggatt and Calver Weir
• Ramsley Moor: Kestrel - 1 - Female ; 324 - 70 - Red Deer
• Redmires: Golden Plover - c35 ; Lapwing - c80 ; Lapwing - c80 ; Linnet - c30 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - feeding on drawdown area ; Starling - c25 - flying over top res. towards trees ; Goldfinch - c10 ; Red Grouse - 3+ ; Woodpigeon - 5+ ; Mallard - c30 ; Cormorant - 1 - flying over ; Stock Dove - 3 - flew out of disused building by dam at East end of conduit ; Kestrel - 1 ; Raven - 1 - over moors (Brown Edge) ; Carrion Crow - 2 - mobbing raven ; Magpie - 3+ - in trees ; Canada Goose - c15 - on bottom res. ; Greylag Goose - c3 - in field east of bottom res. ; Wren - 1 - heard ; Chaffinch - c10 - 3 singing the others in flock feeding on ground (beech mast and on drawdown area) ; Coal Tit - c3 - singing ; Skylark - 1 - singing male on moors N of reservoirs ; Meadow Pipit - c3 - on moors ; 324 - 3 - water voles grazing - along conduit
• Redmires Plantation: Crossbill - 5+ - at least 2 over calling and another 3 seen in flight ; Golden Plover - 5 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing against each other
• Redmires Top Res: Lesser Redpoll - 2+ - in conifers near to car park ; Lapwing - 212
• Ringinglow: Stonechat - 1
• Rushy wood: Nuthatch - 3+ - Around feeders ; Siskin - 8÷ - Including at least 3 singing males. ; Brambling - 1 - 1 male
• Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 3 - 2 Dead next to feeders, other puffed up & not looking too well
• Silverwood Lagoon: Black-headed Gull - 270 - many departed south ; Common Gull - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting female ; Reed Bunting - 10+ - 5 singing ; Skylark - 8 - 4 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Little Grebe - 3 - 'trilling' ; Woodcock - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Siskin - 1 ; Pheasant - 12+ - several males calling at first light ; Jackdaw - 6 - 3-1-1-1 north ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 'drumming' n The Close ; Long-tailed Tit - c.20
• Soughley Lane, Redmires: Canada Goose - 31 - In field below bottom res early morning ; Greylag Goose - 22 - In field below bottom res early morning
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 18 - most left w ; Greylag Goose - 15 ; Gadwall - 6 - 3pr ; Pochard - 1 - m