Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Golden Plover - 28 - over Middle Res ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25 - c. ; Black-headed Gull - 35 - c. ; Mistle Thrush - 20 - c. ; Meadow Pipit - 158 - flew S in 2 hrs ; Linnet - 61 - flew S in 2 hrs ; Lesser Redpoll - 24 - flew SW ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Stock Dove - 2 - flew W ; Black Redstart - 1 - arrived from NE at 08:40 - dropped onto rocks by Middle Res car park. Seen briefly 3 times before promptly disappearing. Ad male judging by white wing patch - an overdue first site record ; Willow Warbler - 1 - flushed out of raspberry bed by Bottom Res - my latest here

Spout House Hill: Swallow - 12 - juveniles heading west. ; Meadow Pipit - c20 - around site. ; Pheasant - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 6 - feeding in rough pasture.

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Chaffinch - 22 - Bit of an influx this morning ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Skylark - 8 ; Linnet - C40 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Robin - 22 ; Wren - 4 ; Blackbird - 8 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jackdaw - 6 ; Jay - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1+ ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Swallow - 2

Arbourthorne: Mandarin - 1 - male on pond with Mallards at 18:00. ; Mallard - 15

Barlow Common: Wheatear - 3 - three together in a field ; Skylark - 8+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 7 ; Linnet - 3 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Collared Dove - 9 - including eight in one small tree ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Bingham Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 9 - noisy flock

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Crookesmoor: Peregrine - 1 - soaring then moving off East towards city centre

Hathersage - North Lees: Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 2

Middleton Moor: Canada Goose - 23 ; Mallard - 9 ; 320 - 20 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Jackdaw - 400 - c. roosted ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1950 - c. roosted ; Yellow-legged Gull - 7 - ads / near ads roosted amongst LBBs ; Black-headed Gull - 140 - c. roosted ; Starling - 30 - c. roosted

Norfolk Heritage Park: Grey Wagtail - 03-Apr - Family party on the stream in the Jervis Lum part of the park.

Norfolk Park: 319 - 2 - hunting over amenity grassland. May be waiting for opportunities to take the grey squirrels that are themselves eating the Horse Chestnut conkers ; Kestrel - 2 - flew over Park Grange Rd into a tree and they briefly grappled talons. After several seconds noisy vocalising they flew out of the tree, followed by 2-4 Jackdaws.

Redmires Bottom Res: Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting on moorland edge ; 319 - 1 - Being mobbed by covids

Roper Hill: Starling - 150 - Large flock in fields by roadside

Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 1 - female ; Gadwall - 2 ; Coot - 25 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Stonechat - 1 - male in gorse and reeds at southern end ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Skylark - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Canada Goose - c.60 - north at 08.45 ; Jay - 6

Sothall: Raven - 1 - sound recorded over garden

Weston Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - By the pond

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair Main Res. ; Blackbird - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - Calling

Orgreave Lakes: Grey Plover - 1 - a juv until 07:45 when it disappeared ; Grey Plover - 1 - Juv on west shore

Ravenfield Church: Kestrel - 1 - On spire early morning. ; Skylark - 6 - Along path over field to Arbour Lane.

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden

Bramley: Little Owl - 1 - On Bungalow roof @ 19:30