Sightings Archive

Whiteley Woods: Jay - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Flew low through trees & landed on branch ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1

Bingham Park: Treecreeper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1

Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - Male making daily visits to feeders in Button Hill garden

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 100+ - On recreation area ; Redwing - 6 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Forge Dam: Grey Heron - 1 ; Mandarin - 12

Ladybower Res, North arm: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2+ ; Raven - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling ; Canada Goose - c62 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 5

Mayfield Valley: Redwing - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Redmires conduit: Fieldfare - 2 - In field between conduit and Lodge Moor Road. Fighting for worms with 2 Mistle Thrushes

Shepherd Wheel: Grey Heron - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Female

Shirebrook Valley: Willow Tit - 2

Silverwood (pit wood ): Rook - 20 - On stubble field adjacent to the wood ; Jackdaw - 13 - With Rooks ; Carrion Crow - 6 - With other corvids on stubble. ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 5 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Nuthatch - 04-May ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 17 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Pheasant - 6 - 5 female 1 male. ; Blackbird - 6 ; Fieldfare - c30 - on adjacent field, ; Redwing - 8 - With Fieldfares. ; Woodpigeon - c500 - Coming in to roost in wood.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 3 - inc.1 with injured wing on f/path, coaxed back into water then swam away ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 34 ; Canada Goose - 60 ; Pochard - 10 - 3f ; Tufted Duck - 30 ; Water Rail - 2 - area flooded ; 321 - 1 - imm ; Brambling - 14+ - diff. to count v.skittish in high wind ; Reed Bunting - 12 - at feeders ; Yellowhammer - 2 - at feeders

Whiteley Woods: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1

Aldwarke: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting roadside on liberty steels site 13.00

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Gadwall - 20+ ; 320 - 6+ ; Shoveler - 3 ; Pochard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Coot - 35+ ; Black-headed Gull - 75-80

Centenary Riverside: Goosander - 2 - Pair on river. ; Mallard - 5 - 2 pair, 1 male ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Feeding on midges , riverbank. ; Cormorant - 1 ; Wren - 2 - Pair with alarm calls.

Derwent Dam: 319 - 1

Dore, Cavendish Ave: Mandarin - 2

Dronfield: 319 - 1 - On Hallowes golf course ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - On Hallowes golf course

Endcliffe Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 38 - Lower pond ; Goldcrest - 1 - Nr Cafe ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 7 - Pair mating on Forge Dam

Green Moor: Brambling - 15 - Feeding in garden on Delph Mews

Hangingwater: Song Thrush - 1 - first heard singing here this year

Harthill Res: Goosander - 3 - m + 2f ; Gadwall - 10 ; Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Greylag Goose - 4 - arrived ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - res pr ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 30