Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Gull - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Redwing - 10 ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 15+ ; Linnet - c20 - pairs and small groups around pit top ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Waverley: Lapwing - 40 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Linnet - 9 ; Meadow Pipit - 12

Wharncliffe Chase: Skylark - c40 - Numerous singing, concentrations on the Chase plus some in surrounding fields. ; Yellowhammer - 3 - Singing males ; Chaffinch - 20+ - 4-5 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 6 - 2 singing ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; 319 - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 - Males ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Drumming ; Starling - c50 - With FF/RW group ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Redwing - 20+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; Song Thrush - 3 - Singing ; 324 - 6 - Brown Hare ; Linnet - 1 ; Stock Dove - Pair - Song/display flight ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 4 singing males ; Fieldfare - c140 - Large chattering group with RW ; Lapwing - 25

Whirlow Hall Farm: Redwing - 50+ ; Fieldfare - 1+ - Feeding with Redwings

Wortley: Curlew - 1 - Heard 2pm ; 319 - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Large female again

Alport Valley: Common Buzzard - 2 ; Crossbill - 5+

Baslow: Curlew - 1 - Flying north over observer’s house at 10.00am

Brownhills Lane: Black-headed Gull - 400-500 - 2 large, mobile flocks on roadside fields ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Curlew - 1

Five Weirs Walk: Grey Heron - 1

Green Moor: Stock Dove - 10 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 3 singing males ; Greenfinch - 3

Kirk Edge: Curlew - 3

Kiveton: Snipe - 5

Loxley Valley: 319 - 4

Malin Bridge: Goldcrest - 1

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 45 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Common Gull - 75 ; 320 - 8 ; Wigeon - 2 - Drakes ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Skylark - 4 - In field south of hide ; Starling - 200+ - In fields on N side of lagoon

R Don, Attercliffe: Kingfisher - 2 - Two males in a territorial dispute.

R Don, Effingham St: Mute Swan - 2 ; Goosander - 9 - 6 male, 3 female ; Cormorant - 1 ; Canada Goose - 3

Rawmarsh; Bellows Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circled over & drifted off E @ 1355hrs

Wales Common: Snipe - 16

Walkley Bank: Bullfinch - 2 - male and female on bird-feeder (first sighting at this location in 6+ months)

Woodall Pond: 320 - 2 - males

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1pr - male appeared on chimney @ 0750hrs; soon joined by female before both left ; Stock Dove - 2 - aerial display

Barlow Common: 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 3 - impressive display flights and singing

Bolehill Flash: Yellowhammer - 2

Bradfield Dale: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - flew towards Strines Res with single Greylag. ; Greylag Goose - c90 - in fields by Dale Dike Res

Firsby Res: Coot - 4 - 2 Pairs. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 7 - 4M, 3F ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs paddock hedge. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Pair. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - In woodland.

Gleadless Valley LNR: Long-tailed Tit - 3

Grange Lane: Kestrel - 1 - male on tel. wire, W of Thundercliffe Grange

Grange Park Golf Course: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting low over gorse ; 319 - 3 - 2 low over Upper Kennel Wood/Gallery Bottom and 1 SW ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - from Upper Kennel ; Skylark - 1 - singing from adjacent field/paddock ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - pond at Upper Kennel ; Wren - 2+ - singing ; Dunnock - 2+ - singing