Sightings Archive

Parkgate: Kestrel - 1 - on roadside streetlight; Barbers Avenue

Porter Brook, Pear St: Mandarin - 4 - 3m, 1f on river near Aviva building

Porter Clough: Chaffinch - 15+ ; Brambling - 3+ - in mixed flock of Chaffinch ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Tit - 6 - small party ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Robin - 3 ; Siskin - 6+ - M + F

R Don, Effingham St: Mallard - 45 ; Goosander - 7 - 5 males ; Canada Goose - 7 ; Mute Swan - 2 - pair ; Cormorant - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Feral Pigeon - 89 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 8

R Sheaf, Broadfield Rd: Mandarin - 26 - My highest count here. Mostly males.

R Sheaf, Heeley: Grey Wagtail - 1

Rawmarsh: Greenfinch - 1 - song/aerial display; Rockcliffe Road

Rocher Flat: Snipe - 1 ; Skylark - 1+ - singing

Rocher Wood: Blue Tit - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2+ ; Robin - 4 - singing males ; Great Tit - 1 ; Jay - 1

Thrybergh: House Sparrow - 16

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 38 ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Goosander - 1 - female ; Water Rail - 1+ ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Common Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - c100 ; Lapwing - 120 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Stonechat - 1 - female ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 ; Jackdaw - 10 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Goldfinch - c30 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; 319 - 4+ ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Bullfinch - 6

Walker Edge: Dunnock - 1 ; Wren - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Common Buzzard - 5 - Together over heath

Whiston: Redwing - c60 - flock; Little Common Lane

White Lee Moor: Blue Tit - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Siskin - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Wigtwizzle: Jay - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Great Tit - 1

Wortley: Skylark - 1 - Singing at times ; Nuthatch - 3+ - One singing ; Redwing - 30+ ; 319 - 4 ; Song Thrush - 02-Mar - 2-3 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - 1 drumming

Aldwarke: Peregrine - 1 - Sat on Liberty Steels melting shop roof 12.50 ; Goldfinch - 20 - On feeders

Bingham Park: 320 - 2 - At Ibbotson pond. I've not seen along the valley before.

Brightside Lane: Peregrine - 2 - Displaying over Forgemasters, one calling from perch, other climbing high and swooping down for at least 10 mins

Burbage Valley: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting south along eastern edge of valley

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 5 - 4M,1F seen together in observer's garden

Hathersage Moor: Kestrel - 1 ; Red Grouse - 1 - heard

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 - a pair ; 320 - 48 ; Lapwing - 44

Norton Lees: Redwing - 5

Pingle Lane Tip: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Skylark - 8 - in surrounding fields, including 3 singing birds

R Derwent, Leadmill to Grindleford: Dipper - 6 ; Mandarin - 5 ; Goosander - 1m ; 321 - 1 ; 319 - 1 - in flight

R Don, Salmon Pastures: Goosander - 3 - 2 males and a female

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blue Tit - 2 - investigating nest box

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 200+ - Roosting & preening joined by others all the time ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20+ - Joining roost of black-headed gulls