Sightings Archive

Silver Wood: Jay - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male.

Thrybergh CP: Wigeon - 5 ; 320 - 1 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 21 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunting early morning, reported by walkers

Walkley garden: Redwing - 10 - Flighty flock in top of ash and birch. 1st this winter. ; Starling - 30+ - Gathered at top of ash and birch, largest flock this season.

Whiteley Woods: Mistle Thrush - 1 - tuning up

Damflask Res: Brambling - 1 - in trees on south-western bank.

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 - W ; Mute Swan - 4 - family - Y035 and Y316 with 2 juv's feeding and preening, W end of lake ; Mallard - 5+ ; Coot - 2+ ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Endcliffe garden: Woodcock - 1 - Caught on trail cam foraging amongst scrubby vegetation in a private garden near Endcliffe Park.

Hallam Moors: Meadow Pipit - 10 - c.

Hammond*s Field: Stonechat - 1 ; Pheasant - 5 - males ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Kestrel - 1

Hollow Meadows: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Female crossed A57 (north to south) 300 yards above Derbyshire sign.

Middle Common: Skylark - 1+ - up from cover crop ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ - up from cover crop

Middleton Moor: Golden Plover - 128 ; Lapwing - 245 ; 320 - 38 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - a redhead ; Snipe - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Lapwing - 23 ; Little Grebe - 2 - small lake ; Skylark - 3 ; Goosander - 21 - 5m 16 redhead ; Goosander - 21 - another photo ; Pochard - 74 - small lake

Padley: Jay - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

Porter Clough: Goldcrest - 2 - in trees next to car park at top of clough 14:25

R Derwent, Leadmill: Dipper - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 26 - flushed by dog walkers ; Lapwing - 58 - flushed by dog walkers ; 320 - 21 - flushed by dog walkers ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Redmires Res: Lapwing - 60 - c. ; Golden Plover - 11 ; Lesser Redpoll - 32 - flew SW ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Fieldfare - 120 - flew SW ; Woodpigeon - 1000 - flew S ; Redwing - 10 - flew SW ; Blackbird - 5 - c. ; Canada Goose - 50 - c. ; Greylag Goose - 70 - c. ; Mallard - 50 - c. ; 320 - 15 - c. ; Brambling - 1

Rivelin Dams: Canada Goose - 37

Rocher End: Lesser Redpoll - 6+ - foraging in birch tree. ; Goldcrest - 3 - in hawthorn scrub. ; Redwing - 1+ - calling in hawthorn scrub.

Rockingham Wood: 319 - 1 - calling, low over Wood ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Rother Valley CP: Red-crested Pochard - 1 - Drake on Northern Lake

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - 250 - 50 west at 08:10, 200 west at 09:05

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greylag Goose - 108

Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 30 ; Pink-footed Goose - 62 - West at 08:10 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Kestrel - 2 - 2 males ; Water Rail - 1 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 28 ; Lapwing - c80 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 8 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blackbird - 10 ; Redwing - 70+ ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Linnet - 60 ; Goldfinch - 60+