Sightings Archive

Saturday 27th March 2021

• Firsby Res: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair on sluice. ; Barn Owl - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting Male. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1
• Forge Dam: Mandarin - 1 - Male briefly, then flew east ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Probable breeding pair in hole in Ash Tree.
• Grange Park Golf Course: Grey Heron - 1 - Up from pond @ Upper Kennel Wood @11:00. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from W end of Walkworth Wood @ 11:45. ; 319 - 1 - Low circling over E edge of Gallery Bottom. ; Skylark - 1 - singing near Watson's Tip. ; Robin - 8+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from Walkworth Wood ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Nuthatch - 3+ - at least 3 singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing ; Linnet - 4+ - in and around gorse @SW facing bank of Brown Spring. ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls
• Hathersage: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Early visitor to observer’s garden
• Linacre Res: Chiffchaff - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4 ; Coot - 12 ; Moorhen - 11 - 1 nest ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - 13 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 73 ; Mallard - 52
• Longshaw: Jay - 1
• Moorwood Lane: Red Kite - 1 - Flying west, mobbed by lapwings
• Morehall Res: Cormorant - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming in plantation
• Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 6 ; Swallow - 1 - feeding with martins at 08.10. ; Wheatear - 1 ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing by railway line ; Little Ringed Plover - 5 - On West shore ; Sand Martin - 20 - At least 20 arrived on weather front at 7am ; Swallow - 1 - With arrival of Sand Martins ; Wheatear - 1 - 1st year bird around north shore. ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 35+ ; Pochard - 15 ; Skylark - 8 ; Goldeneye - 3+ ; Goosander - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Lapwing - 2 ; 320 - 4 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Wigeon - 1 - M ; Redshank - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Herring Gull - 15+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 - Together ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - Male ; Sand Martin - 6
• Oughtibridge garden: Bullfinch - 2 - pair , regular visitors to feeders. ; House Sparrow - 18 ; Siskin - 2 - pair on feeders. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Starling - 5 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2 - pair nest building in conifers. ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 - Male , making regular trips food carrying . ; Rook - 4 - on fatballs.
• Peat Pits: Reed Bunting - 1 - male sat on wall. ; Peregrine - 1 - flushing plovers. ; Golden Plover - 11 ; Meadow Pipit - 48 - heading north west.
• Porter Brook: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair flew down brook towards Endcliffe Park
• Porter Clough: Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Fieldfare - 60+ - Flew west ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 5 - in garden briefly
• Redmires: 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; 320 - 2 - Pair ; Curlew - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 30+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair courtship ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1