Sightings Archive

Lost Lad: Golden Plover - 1+ - calling ; Red Grouse - c4 ; Curlew - 1 - calling

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - at least 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - displaying ; Curlew - 8 - some displaying ; Woodpigeon - c8 - in field ; Robin - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 - males ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Greylag Goose - c15 - one dead one in rushy pasture plus a pair together, maybe at their nest ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male

Manor: Blackcap - 1 - male singing from near discovery centre ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing Manor Lodge ; Stock Dove - 1 - near discovery centre ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing near car park to Manor Lodge

Manor Fields Park: Mallard - 13 - a pair with 11ducklings on pond ; Blackcap - 1 - male singing ; Chiffchaff - c4 - singing around park ; Song Thrush - 4+ - at least 2 pairs ; Magpie - 2 - pair at nest

Mickleden Beck: Raven - 2 - briefly displayed together then flew along beck ; Kestrel - 2 - flying, and briefly tumbling, together ; Stock Dove - 2 - flying down beck towards reservoir ; Canada Goose - 2 - flying up beck ; Red Grouse - at least 4

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 4 - redheads, at least 3 of which were 2cy drakes, ; Canada Goose - 2

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Little Ringed Plover - 2

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Sparrowhawk - 2 - in aerial display @ 1345hrs

Redmires Res: Goosander - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; 320 - 7 ; Herring Gull - 13 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Common Buzzard - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Kestrel - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 14 ; Snipe - 1 - drumming south side of Middle Res ; Greenfinch - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - song-flighting

Rud Hill: Golden Plover - 255 - c. in fields ; Wheatear - 2 - in fields

Scholes Coppice @ Scholes Lane: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing ; Magpie - 2

Sugden Clough: Meadow Pipit - at least 8 ; Red Grouse - at least 5 ; 319 - 1 - flying overhead ; Wren - 1 ; Goldfinch - at least 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 - a pair ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - A male feeding on inverts flying up from short grassland, watched for 10 mins and no female seen.

Thickwoods Plantation: Coal Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - male ; Robin - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 66 ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; 319 - 8+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 4 ; House Martin - 4 ; Sand Martin - 20c - Over feeding, also went West. ; Brambling - 1 - A female at Doncaster point.

Agden Res: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - in nearby fields

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Stonechat - 1+ - 1 (poss 2) singing males

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 in the air together at 1400

Catcliffe: 319 - 1 - Low besides Europa Link @ 07.10

Crosspool: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting slowly over our house in S-N direction

Crosspool-Den Bank Wood: Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Calling ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Wren - 5+ - Singing ; Robin - 5+ - Singing ; Jay - 2 - Calling raucously ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - 4 - Singing ; Great Tit - 3 - Calling ; Blue Tit - 6+ - Calling ; Nuthatch - 2 - Calling ; Blackbird - 6 - Singing