Sightings Archive

Wednesday 31st March 2021

• Bar Brook Valley: Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 ; 324 - 3 - Red Deer
• Baslow: Goosander - 2 - Redheads ; Mandarin - 8 ; Kingfisher - 2 - Pair
• Bassingthorpe Spring: Wren - 2+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing from scrub ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing from scrub ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1+
• Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 2 - 1 yaffling in valley; 1 flushed from brush on Back Edge a hundred metres away so not necessarilly a pair
• Bole Hill Rec: Swallow - 1 - Single flying rapidly W towards Rivelin Dams ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in woodland
• Botanical Gardens: Nuthatch - 1
• Burbage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 4 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Raven - 3 ; Stonechat - 5
• Dore: Mandarin - 2 - Over Kerwin Rd calling at 19:15, flying towards Abbeydale
• Ecclesall Woods (Wood 3): Willow Warbler - 1 - singing briefly at the NE corner of the playing field ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling ; Blackcap - 1 - singing by the Ryecroft Glen car park
• General Cemetery, Sharrow: Chiffchaff - 2 calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - Sunbathing ; 324 - 1 - Comma butterfly
• Graves Park: Little Grebe - 1 - on boating lake ; Mandarin - 1 - f in tree by Bunting Nook ; Stock Dove - 2 - in trees by Bunting Nook
• Greystones: Woodpigeon - 6 - Pair of juveniles seen in nest in neighbour's garden
• Greystones garden: House Sparrow - 6 - a pair copulating in observer's garden
• Hazelbarrow Farm: Yellowhammer - 1 - male in hedge ; Linnet - 1 - flew over
• Holdworth: Swallow - 1 - flying around farm outbuildings. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - singing males.
• Knoll Top Farm: Red Kite - 1 - Gliding west at 14:15
• Leadmill Bridge: Chiffchaff - 3 - 3 calling
• Leadmill Bridge to Shatton: Canada Goose - 32 - 28+2+2 ; Dipper - 3 - pr + 1 ; Goosander - 4 - 2prs ; Mallard - c20 ; Coot - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 2
• Low Bradfield: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in Schoolrooms car park
• Loxley Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - Just above Langlands Garden Centre
• Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1
• Midhope Res: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Curlew - 40 - At least one with colour rings ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - 2-3 displaying ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Tufted Duck - Pair ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 7 - One displaying ; 319 - 2 - Pair circling ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; Little Grebe - 4 - Some trilling ; 320 - 3 - Pair + a male ; Lapwing - 3
• Moss Valley: Blackcap - 2
• Norton: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing on Norton Church Road
• Oaking Clough: Ring Ouzel - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 01-Feb ; Willow Warbler - 1 - seen and heard near bridge over river ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Skylark - 4+ ; Lapwing - 4+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 ; 320 - 3+ ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing between bridges ; Blackcap - 1 - singing between bridges ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 4 - one on nest on island ; Lapwing - 10+ - mostly round island ; Redshank - 3 - on island ; Shoveler - 2 - pair on island ; Wigeon - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - W over island ; Goldeneye - 3 - 2m + 1f ; Reed Bunting - 3 - m ; Starling - 4 - on island
• R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - 20 - cooling off on the weir ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy on weir ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - adults, with a pair displaying on flat roof