6 Common Sandpipers
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Sedge Warbler at south end of causeway
3-4 Grey Wagtails
7 Common Terns
6 Common Sandpipers
1 Redshank
1 Little Ringed Plover
3 Grey Wagtails
1 Short-eared Owl quartering moorland at Goyt's Moss near Cat and Fiddle Inn
1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling from moorland just above Derbyshire Bridge car-park at head of valley
2 Whinchats [pr]
2 Stonechats
1 Wood Warbler
1 Fallow Deer fawn
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Sand Martins
4 Grey Wagtails
Bill Harrison had earlier seen 2 Greenshanks and 2 Sedge Warblers and 5 Yellow-legged Gulls yesterday afternoon
1 Large Skipper - Ranch
1 Common Darter - Picnic Area
1 Little Ringed Plover on causeway
1 Painted Lady on causeway
2 Common Sandpipers, the 1st returning autumn migrants, a mere 22 days after the last spring record
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Grey Wagtail
3 Moles around Colliery Cottage, presumably disoriented by vibrations from the 500W sound-system
2 Little Ringed Plovers on causeway
1 Sand Martin
1 Rook
1 Hobby [1st-summer] low over no.4 then on electric-fence in north-west corner. The only Hobby in 2003 was on June 14
4 Common Scoters [3m,1f] on no.4 appeared very wary, all keeping lookout in different directions but surprisingly unafraid of humans. Female always dived first followed by the others.
Bill Crooks reports Scoters still present when he left at 1530hrs
1 Common Blue damselfly - Ranch Pond
1 Meadow Brown
1 Painted Lady
2 Little Ringed Plovers on causeway
1 Red Admiral
1 Painted Lady
1 Lesser Whitethroat still singing around Kwik Save car-park. Has now been present for over 5 weeks
1 Willow Tit [juv] - Ranch. Long live post-breeding dispersal
A small influx of Painted Lady butterflies favouring the causeway
Derwent Dale, Derbyshire
1 Red-breasted Merganser [m] below Derwent Dam
Pr. Red Grouse with chicks
2 Garden Warblers singing along east side of Derwent Res
1 Spotted Flycatcher between Ladybower and Derwent Reservoirs
1 Redstart [m]
Tree Pipits and Wood Warblers
2 Mountain Hares
Green Hairstreak colony on rowan blossom along south side of ravine above south-east corner of Derwent Res
1 Lesser Whitethroat still singing opposite entrance to Kwik Save, has now been present for 4 weeks
1 Sedge Warbler still singing on south side of no.4
1 Sedge Warbler singing on south side of no.4
1 Yellowhammer singing north of no.4