Sightings Archive

Porter Valley: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - 2 drumming close together ; Nuthatch - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, narrowly missed whipping male Blackbird from garden; both left in opposite directions!

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 2

Rivelin Valley: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Robin - 4 ; Mallard - 11 ; Mandarin - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 - Plus another bird found dead near Rivelin Valley Rd ; Dipper - 1 - Carrying nest material to known nest site ; Pheasant - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Woodpigeon - 5

Roughwood Rec: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting close to Hudson's Rough ; Black-headed Gull - 27 - 2 coming into spring/summer plumage ; Jackdaw - 12+ ; Rook - 15

RVCP: Oystercatcher - 6 - monthly max

Thrybergh: Redwing - 2 - St Leonard's Churchyard ; Redwing - 2 - In Cemetery.

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - Drake still present. ; Stonechat - 1 - Female

Upper Derwentdale: Siskin - c50 ; Crossbill - c10 ; Brambling - c150 - very large mobile flock. ; Dipper - 1 - on the Westend stream

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 2 - pair ; Mandarin - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - 2

Agden Side: Greylag Goose - c140 - in fields by Smallfield Lane, inc white spectacled bird ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 - with Greylags

Bradfield: Brambling - 20+ - Mixed flock chaffinch and brambling feeding in beeches along Hoar stones road above Ughill road

Broomhead Res: Shoveler - 4 - 3 male, 1 female towards western end.

Carr Vale NR: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Snipe - 19 ; Jack Snipe - 1

Firsby Res: Great Tit - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Female. ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Linnet - 20c - On adjacent field. ; Redwing - 30+ ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Starling - 10

Graves Park: Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ravine area ; Stock Dove - 2 - singing

Greystones: Blackcap - 6 - 4M2F, seen together in observer's garden

Grindleford: Redwing - 50 - c. ; Bullfinch - 2 - male courtship feeding female by railway line

Holling Dale Plantation: Crossbill - 12 - in Rowan on moor, dropping to stream to drink.

Keppels Field: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1+ - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - c10 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 heard

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c 120

Pingle Lane Tip: Yellowhammer - 2 - singing males on upper and mid levels of tip

R Derwent near Bubnell: Greylag Goose - c50 ; Canada Goose - 130+ - In riverside field with Greylags

R Derwent, Calver: Mandarin - c15 - between Calver & Bubnell

R Derwent, Calver Mill: Goosander - 1 - redhead

R Derwent, Calver: Mandarin - 5 - Calver Bridge to Calver Mill

R Don, Well Hill: Goosander - 4 - 2 pairs near bridge at bottom of Well Hill

R Loxley, Hillsborough: Dipper - 1 - At Hillsborough corner.

R Sheaf, Broadfield Road: Mandarin - 5

Redmires Bottom Res: Pintail - 1 - With flock of 13 Mallard

Redscope Plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Goldfinch - 1+

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 - Stepping stones near to car park lake ; Redwing - 6 - Flying over Clough Fields ; Kestrel - 1

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 4+ - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 4+ - at least 1 singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Chaffinch - c6 ; Jay - 1

Thornseat Delf: Stonechat - 2

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 28 ; Scaup - 1 ; Pochard - 2 ; Goosander - 1 - Female ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Lapwing - C200 ; Peregrine - 1 - East 08:30 ; 319 - 3