Sightings Archive

Kimberworth Park: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting , bottom of Grey Hill

Nether Haugh: Jackdaw - 22 - in horse paddock ; Red-legged Partridge - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - visiting bird table, Daniel Lane ; Coal Tit - 1 - visiting bird table, Daniel Lane

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Jackdaw - c40 - periodic wheeling over in small, noisy parties ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - in birches ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over, mobbed by crows & gulls; left W ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Herring Gull - 6 - S ; Redwing - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 pairs on island ; Grey Partridge - 2 - On tip ; Linnet - 80 - On compound fence north of lake.

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Chaffinch - 1 - hesitant song

R Don, Effingham St: 320 - 1 - drake still with Mallard ; Chiffchaff - 2 - one a grey looking bird, not seen well or heard.

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Stock Dove - 1pr - male singing; pair seen later

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Mistle Thrush - 2 - over to N

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 50+ - Flying over conifers towards the dams.

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 1

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Upper Derwentdale: Chaffinch - 1+ - singing

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - single male bathing, also singing from Garrya tree.

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Stock Dove - 1 - parkland to N ; Mallard - 35 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Canada Goose - 1 - parkland to N ; Coot - 9

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantation: Rook - c80 - mixed flock in adjacent field ; Jackdaw - c120 - mixed flock in adjacent field ; Carrion Crow - c40 - mixed flock in adjacent field ; Stock Dove - 11+ ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over, drifted W

Chatsworth Park: Brambling - 20 - Feeding under beeches between Edensor and House

Crowhole: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Ecclesall: Cormorant - 2 - ads flew NW over Ansell Road at 10:05 hrs

Endcliffe Park: Stock Dove - 2 - pr by lower pond

Longstone Moor: Skylark - 1 - Singing-my first on uplands this year

Low Common: 319 - 3 - close together between lakes and Rockingham Wood ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 4

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 480 - At 11.30 ; Golden Plover - 6 ; 320 - 4 ; Common Gull - 230 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 45 ; Black-headed Gull - 24

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2 pairs, 1 pair displaying - head shaking ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Lapwing - 15 - 11 W, followed by 4, 2 mins later @ 10:48

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling 2040-2050hrs at least

Rawmarsh; Bellows Road: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1415hrs

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - c50 - Flock briefly over res at 15:00

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 50 - c. in fields ; Mallard - 25 - c. ; 320 - 13 - on Middle Res ; Tufted Duck - 3 - on Top Res ; Lapwing - 133 - on Middle Res ; Herring Gull - 5 - ad + 2x2CY + 2x1CY ; Black-headed Gull - 15 - c. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - flew N - first returning bird

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 - Feeding in river next to Walkley Bank Allotments

Shiregreen: 319 - 1 - Circling over Hartley Brook

Silver Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming in lower woods ; Nuthatch - 4 - 1 singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing near r/way line pond ; Jay - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing on Pingle Lane Tip ; Skylark - 2 - singing over fields between woods and Old Ravenfield ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over small playing field to south of woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Wigeon - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - regular adult ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c.60 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead south at 09.05 ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Linnet - 5 ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Jay - 2

Grange Park Golf Course: Peregrine - Pair - Pair flew from Keppel’s Column vicinity over northern edge of course.