Sightings Archive

Shirebrook disused tip: Great Tit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1+

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Redshank - 1

Woodthorpe; Castlebeck Ravine: Blue Tit - 3 ; Robin - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 6 ; Wren - 1 ; Goldfinch - 4 - two singing males ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Dunnock - 1 ; House Sparrow - 10+ ; Magpie - 5

Beauchief Golf Course: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - All drumming ; Mandarin - 3 - 2m1f ; Nuthatch - 1

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 28 ; Greylag Goose - 86 ; Canada Goose - 77 ; Oystercatcher - 4

Chatsworth Park: Little Grebe - 1 - Trilling ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Male ; first for some time

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Lower pond at 17:10

Graves Park: 322 - 1 - Alexandrine Parakeet nest site prospecting.

Greystones garden: Blue Tit - 2 - Inspecting nest box in observer's garden

Handsworth: Blackcap - 2 - 2 males on fat ball feeders.

Linacre Res: Gadwall - 2 - unusual here ; Tufted Duck - 37 ; Goosander - 6 - 2m, 4 redheads ; Canada Goose - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Raven - 1 - flying over

R Sheaf, Broadfield Rd: Mandarin - 25 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - N @ 0955hrs; High Street

Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 1 - Single [long staying] adult interacting with Mute Swans ; Wigeon - 30+ - grazing on grass banking ; 319 - 1 - Buzzard soaring

RVCP: Redshank - 1 - Increasing scarce nowadays here ; Cormorant - 26 ; Goldeneye - 16 ; Merlin - 1 - Flew E

Thrybergh: Yellowhammer - 2 - males, first on garden list for 5 years

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; 320 - 3 - 3M ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Pochard - 2 - 2 fem ; Water Rail - 1 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Fieldfare - 80+ ; Redwing - 20 ; Blackbird - 20 - Lots of males fighting ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Skylark - 4 ; Linnet - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - c30 ; Barn Owl - 1 - One found dead on Dam wall @ 17:40hrs approx, second in area since one at Silverwood lagoon on Friday

Fanshaw Gate: Finch sp - 15+ - Siskin, Yellowhammer, Goldfinch, Chaffinch all in same tree near garden with bird feeders

Fanshaw Gate Lane: Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Fieldfare - 7 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Gillfield Wood: 319 - 1

Handsworth garden: Bullfinch - 2 - Pair,welcome back.

Hathersage: Curlew - 22 - in fields near Offerton Hall

Holmesfield Park Wood: Nuthatch - 1

Low Bradfield: Curlew - 13+ - on pastures between Edgefield Farm and Dale Dike ; Lapwing - 2+ - one sitting in pasture - the other displaying

Loxley Valley: Kingfisher - 1 - flying downstream near Rowell Bridge ; Dipper - 2 - flying downstream near Rowell Bridge

Norton Lees garden: Blackcap - 1 - a male, first for a few years ; Blackbird - 3 - a pair with nest material + a male interfering

Onesmoor: Merlin - 1 - male hunting over fields

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c150 ; Curlew - 4 ; Lapwing - 10+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling. ; Kestrel - 1

Rawmarsh; Collier Brook: Long-tailed Tit - 4

Rawmarsh; Collier Brook marsh: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling (repeated 'kik-kik-kik') persistently from dense typha

Rawmarsh; Rosehill Park: Chaffinch - 4 - 1pr + 2 singing ; Stock Dove - 7 - inc 1 singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - drumming

Redmires Bottom Res: Siskin - 4+ - in mobile flock around buildings below dam wall ; Goldcrest - 2

RVCP: Shelduck - 1 - Flew N ; Wigeon - 121 ; Pochard - 22

Strines Res: Red Kite - 1 - over W late am

Swinton: Stock Dove - 1 - singing, Three-cornered Plantation

Swinton Common: Meadow Pipit - 1 - over ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing