Sightings Archive

Sunday 17th April 2022

• Grange, Brick Kiln: Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, E of wood ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 2
• Grange, Driving Range & Surrounds: Robin - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing
• Grange, Walkworth Wood: Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; 319 - 2 - low over wood ; Wren - 6 - singing ; Robin - 5 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing
• Grange, Walkworth Wood, W of Steps: Blackcap - 2 - singing
• Grange, Watson*s Tip & Millmoor Juniors: Black-headed Gull - 3 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 2 - singing ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Dunnock - 2 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• High Green: Goldfinch - Pair - Nest building in garden bush, first ever record
• Hollow Meadows: Oystercatcher - 2 - pair chased off lone bird flying E down valley - landed back in fields and continued displaying
• Hundall: Raven - 2
• New Whittington: 321 - 1 over
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Prospecting nest box at top of woods ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Raven - 1 - Mobbed by crows ; Pied Flycatcher - 5 - 1 with interesting bill deformity
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 10 ; Mallard - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - 5
• R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 3 - 2 singing; anxiety calls ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Mallard - 4 - all drakes ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing
• R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Tufted Duck - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Coot - 4 ; Mallard - 3 - all drakes ; Gadwall - 4 ; Kingfisher - 2 - chasing & calling excitedly ; Stock Dove - 1pr - on Thrybergh Bridge
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 16 ; Greylag Goose - 22 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 3 - 2 reeling south side of Middle Res + 1 reeling in gulley N of Ocean View ; Willow Warbler - 12 ; Kestrel - 1
• Rivelin Dams: Canada Goose - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair on Bottom res ; Mandarin - 2 - males on Bottom Res
• Rivelin Hagg: Blackcap - 1 - male singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing
• Rivelin Valley: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Silver Wood: Willow Warbler - 13 - 7 singing along r/way lie, 4 singing Pingle Lane Tip, 2 singing southern edge of main woods ; Blackcap - 11 - about 11 singing in area ; Whitethroat - 2 - one singing behind Silverwood Test Centre, 1 singing Pingle Lane Tip
• Silverwood Lagoon: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing from scrub below northern edge of Woodlaithes estate ; Grey Heron - 2 - west at 07.35
• Thrybergh CP: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 3 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 5 - at 13:50hrs, diving and feeding, keeping fairly well to the centre of the res , 2 in courtship display briefly.
• Thrybergh Tip: Tufted Duck - 15 ; Shoveler - 5 - 3m; 2f ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 - inc territorial pair ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 18 - inc 7 in from E ; Coot - 10+ ; Little Grebe - 1+ - trilling ; Mallard - 4 - all drakes ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 13 ; Mute Swan - 11 - 1 adult (possibly a concealed nest nearby); 10 over from NE left SW @ 0700hrs ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Cormorant - 1 - W ; 320 - 1pr ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Jay - 1