Sightings Archive

Monday 18th April 2022

• Bradgate Brick Pit: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing
• Burbage Valley: Raven - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - Pair m&f ; Stonechat - 3 - Two adjacent territories 2m 1f ; Meadow Pipit - 10 ; Wren - 5 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 - Males ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 7 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5+ ; Robin - 2 ; Great Tit - 3+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 1
• Centenary Riverside: Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; 321 - 2 - River ; Canada Goose - 2 - Pair ; Cormorant - 1
• Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 2 - pair
• Crosspool-Den Bank Wood: Blackbird - 10 - Several singing ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 3 - Calling ; Coal Tit - 1 - On feeder ; Wren - 6 - Singing ; Robin - 7 - Most singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - Calling ; Dunnock - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - Males ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 1 calling ; Brambling - 1 - Calling
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 4 - 2 pairs. ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair ; Mallard - 5 ; 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Carrying food. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Blackcap - 5+ - All Males.. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing in too Reed bed. ; Willow Warbler - 4+ ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 2 - Pair nest building.
• Fulwood garden: Red Kite - 1 - Red Kite and Buzzard circling quite high then interacting ; House Sparrow - 3 - one gathering nest material ; Jay - 1
• Gleadless Valley LNR: Chiffchaff - 3 - singles ; Wren - 2
• Higger Tor: Wheatear - 2 - m & f ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Ring Ouzel - 3
• Hudson*s Rough: Mallard - 1 - male @ pond, SE of f/p ; Moorhen - 1 - @ pond ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - calls ; Wren - 2+ - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+
• Kimberworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing, W side of Fenton Road
• Midhope Res: Garden Warbler - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Linnet - 1+ ; Ring Ouzel - 1 male ; Whooper Swan - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Swallow - 2 west ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 imm West ; Snipe - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 singing ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 singing ; Skylark - 1 singing ; 319 - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2