Sightings Archive

Saturday 3rd April 2021

• Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 3+
• Dalton: 319 - 1 - Low over football pitches mobbed by crows. ; Herring Gull - 2 - Adults over football pitches.
• Dronfield: 319 - 2 - Over woods S of Hallowes GC ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - Multiple birds singing around Hallowes GC ; Nuthatch - 1+ - singing around Hallowes GC ; 321 - 2 - Flying south
• Ecclesall Woods: Jay - 3 ; Mandarin - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - Both sat on nests
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - On sluice. ; Coot - 3 - Some squabbling. ; Mallard - 3 - All Males. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Sluice. ; Jay - 1 ; Fieldfare - 50+ - Over Main Res mid morning. ; Blackbird - 1 - Female on nest, 2 nests previously found now predated. ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male. ; Siskin - 2+
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 7 - 3m and 4f around feeders
• Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Greenfinch - 4+ - Daily ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Tree Sparrow - 8+ - At least 8 daily ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Blue Tit - 12+ - At least 6 pairs with nests ; Mistle Thrush - 2+ - At least 1 pair nesting ; Chiffchaff - 4+ - At least 4 singing males ; Common Buzzard - 3
• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - 16
• Loxley Valley: Mandarin - 2 - pair on River Loxley, upstream of Rowell Bridge ; Dipper - 1 - singing on River Loxley, upstream of Rowell Bridge ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - bathing and preening in Old Wheel Dam
• Malin Bridge: Blackbird - 2 - male and female enjoying the easter weekend sun..nesting in ivy hedge in Norris road garden. ; Blackbird - 2 ; Blackbird - 2
• Midhope: Black Redstart - 1 - Black redstart still in observers garden this morning 7.45am
• Midhope Moor: 319 - 1
• Midhope Res: Crossbill - 1+ ; 319 - 3 - Pair circling together ; Siskin - 28 - Large group plus single displaying ; Meadow Pipit - 24 - Several displaying ; Curlew - 25+ - Incl. 2 north ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - Resident pair plus another pair arrived from fields and headed towards Low Moor. ; Little Grebe - 5 - Trilling heard ; Tufted Duck - 1 female ; Skylark - 1 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1
• Midhopestones: Swallow - 6 - 16.3
• Northern General Hospital: Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2
• Orgreave Lakes: Iceland Gull - 1 - a 2cy circling high over Big Lake ; Little Egret - 1 ; Wheatear - 2 - Females ; Wheatear - 2 - Male and Female ; Grey Partridge - 3 ; Iceland Gull - 1 - Juv among c.50 LWHG ; Snipe - 4 - On island ; Hobby - 1 - Seen twice chasing Sand Martins.
• Porter Clough: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Clough Lane
• R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 18 - over this evening ; Sand Martin - 16
• Redmires: Red Kite - 1 - flying high from SE over plantation northish, 'til out of sight.
• Silverwood Lagoon: Water Rail - 1 - calling in southern seedbed ; Sand Martin - 1 - north ; Little Grebe - 6 - three pairs ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 7 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Linnet - c.15 - several pairs in suitable breeding habitat around pit top
• Stoney Middleton: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - #NAME? ; Song Thrush - 1 heard - field path ; Jackdaw - c60 over - field path ; Coot - 1 - field path ; 324 - 1 - Hare. In field off Middleton Lane (near Cavendish Mill)
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 78 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 44 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Sand Martin - C200 ; Swallow - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2