Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Wigeon - 10 ; Gadwall - 25 ; 320 - 7 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 3+ ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Fieldfare - 10 ; Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Chaffinch - 20+ ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 20+ - good numbers around feeding station ; Great Tit - 8+ ; Robin - 15+ ; Kestrel - 1 M

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 60+ - in to roost from 15:55 ; 324 - 1 - Female Alexandrine Parakeet with Parakeet flock, feeding on hawthorn berries pre roost.

Canklow: Pink-footed Goose - 1 plus - heard overhead west at 1650

Chatsworth Park: Brambling - 6+ - feeding with Chaffinches and tit flock between Edensor and House

Crosspool: Waxwing - 40+ - In tall trees on Manchester Rd and on the Manchester Rd side of Den Bank Cres at 09:45 ; Waxwing - 168 - Early afternoon - counted from photos

Ecclesall: Pink-footed Goose - 50 - c. flew NNW at 10:10 hrs

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 6 - 4 males, 2 redheads on the pond ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 3+ - n holly tree by the bowling green ; Collared Dove - 2 - Near bowling green ; Blackbird - 2 ; Goldfinch - 4+ - Flock ; Starling - 40+

Holmes Goit: Goosander - 1 - On canal @12.00 ; Cormorant - 1 - Over ; Mute Swan - 1

Intake: Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - large skein over towards city centre at 08:20

Middle Common, Scholes: Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Magpie - 7 ; Goldfinch - c10 - feeding ; Linnet - 10+ ; Reed Bunting - 2

Middleton Moor: 320 - 151 - Lagoon 70% frozen ; Shoveler - 3 ; Common Gull - 22

Morley Pond: Greylag Goose - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 320 - 1 - at least 1 male near boathouse ; Mallard - c100 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Coot - 1 ; Lapwing - 40+ - in field S of Peacock Lodge farm ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

New Whittington: Blackcap - 1 - female in obs garden, continued through to the year end, ; Peregrine - 1 - male over early morning,,surprisingly my first over the house!

Parkgate: 319 - 2 - Over SY Transport Museum in flight display @12:20

Redmires: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Stock Dove - 6

Redmires Middle Res: 320 - 6

Redmires Top Res: Reed Bunting - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2

Scholes: Goose sp - 70+ - NW at 11:20, forming 2 skeins, presumed Pink-feet

Thorpe Hesley: Barn Owl - 1 - 0710 flew from within j35 roundabout

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Canada Goose - c100 ; Greylag Goose - 66 ; Pink-footed Goose - 500+ - Small movement westward in 50 to 150. One down in with Greylag ; Pochard - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 124 ; 320 - 2 ; Gadwall - 11 ; Mallard - 60+ - More. Wild birds this morning until Gas gun ; Water Rail - 1 - (Report from another birder) ; Coot - 30+ ; Lapwing - 60+ ; Woodcock - 1 - Below dam early morning ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chaffinch - 30+ ; House Sparrow - 20+ ; Skylark - 30+ - Flushed up by farmer vehicle east field ; Goldeneye - 10 - 3 males, 7 redheads

Upper Common, Scholes: Feral Pigeon - 30+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - feeding in frost-free area near ditch ; Blackbird - 5+ - among gorse and brambles above ditch ; Chaffinch - 3+ ; Linnet - 10+ ; Kestrel - 1

Walkley: Treecreeper - 1 - On Matlock Road ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 - flying north-west over Providence Road.

Dore: Waxwing - c80 - Causeway Head Road, near shops at 09:30 ; Waxwing - 30 - still present at 14.30.

Leash Fen: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - fairly distant from Fox Hall Lane towards Clodhall Lane after flying from Ramsley Res just after 13:00