Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Banks: Jay - 2

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1

Totley: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - low over house in dark calling loudly at 1845

Totley Garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male at fat feeder ; Siskin - 2 - At seed feeders ; Nuthatch - 1 - At suet pellets

Treeton meadows: 320 - 13 - Around the ox bow ; Wigeon - 6

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - 61 - Feeding on filter beds ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - Feeding on filter beds

Unstone: Chaffinch - 20 ; Goldfinch - 25+ ; Nuthatch - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Linnet - 80+ - feeding on stubble with several chaffinch also into Middle Common.

Wire Mill Dam: Mallard - 38 ; Black-headed Gull - 1

Baslow: Goldcrest - 1

Botanical Gardens: Redwing - 20+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Brincliffe Edge: Nuthatch - 1 - Chelsea Park ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 - Chelsea Park ; Song Thrush - 1 - Chelsea Park

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 2 - Whizzed past my ears as I approached the mini-roundabout at top of the park. Nearly fell off my bike!

Frith Wood, Dronfield: Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Nuthatch - 1

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 - 2 pairs already occupying adjacent nest holes, in same tree, and showing signs of courtship

Green Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 160+ - Flew East over Green Moor - actual count taken from images ; Tree Sparrow - 6 ; Pink-footed Goose - 160+ - Images ; Pink-footed Goose - 160+ ; Pink-footed Goose - 160+

Hazlehurst Farm: Red-legged Partridge - 6 - disturbed from stubble field

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 1 - 1 Redhead has been present every day since new year.

Kimberworth Park: Woodpigeon - 100+ - 2 waves SW over Remount Road between 08:10 - 08:20. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - W over Grey Hill. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - feeding on Grey Hill.

Lodge Moor: Redwing - 6

Manor Fields Park: Robin - 6+ - some singing ; Greenfinch - 2+ - m + f ; Magpie - 9+ ; Dunnock - 3+ - some singing ; Blackbird - 5+ - m + f ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 9+ ; Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; House Sparrow - 4+ ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 9+ ; Chaffinch - c8 - males and females feeding on seed on ground on mown area where meadow mix flowers were alongside Linnets ; Linnet - c10 - feeding on seed on ground ; Moorhen - 1 ; Wren - 3+ ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m + 1f ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Song Thrush - 1

Onesmoor bottom: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting along roadside verge at 15,10.

Porter Valley: Dipper - 2 - nr Hangingwater bridge collecting moss ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - pair attacking squirrel near possible nesting hole close to Wire Mill Dam

Redmires Bottom Res: White-fronted Goose - 1 - reported with Greylags in field leading from Soughley Lane to bottom Res

Ringinglow: Redwing - 60 - In flock with 2 Mistle Thrushes

Shepherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ - at least 1 pair. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Chaffinch - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 6+

Silverwood (pit wood): Tawny Owl - 2 - In 2 separate locations

Silverwood Lagoon: Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Coot - c.15 ; Mallard - 4 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - west ; Jay - 3 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Jackdaw - 6 - party east ; Skylark - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Bullfinch - 2