Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Shoveler - 6 - 4 males

Thorpe Hesley: Lapwing - 59 - 51 & 8 in 2 fields

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male on feeders-first of the year, presumably an overwintering bird. ; Stock Dove - 6 ; Goldfinch - 15+

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair under bird feeders, multiple visits.

Wharncliffe Chase: Red Kite - 1 - In kennels/res area 08:30-08:40. Settled briefly in trees before drifting towards southern end of Chase. ; Red Kite - 1 - Another pic

Agden Side: Skylark - 2 - flew low E

Aldwarke SF: Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 - breeding plumage; trilling ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Shoveler - 3prs ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Magpie - 10+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Pied Wagtail - 25-30 - feeding on area recently cleared of ameliorated sewage sludge

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Stock Dove - 3 - on pylon; aerial display

Ash Cabin Flat: Fieldfare - 35 ; Lapwing - 40

Barlborough: Stock Dove - 16 - feeding in roadside fields

Bents Green: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, flying vaguely westward, c. 14:00

Blacka Moor: Fieldfare - 10 ; Fieldfare - 10 ; Skylark - 8 - Courtship displays ; Skylark - 8 - Another photo

Bowden Housteads Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4+ - 3 birds drumming at the same time + 1in view ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Siskin - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 - in tit flock

Brick Kiln Plantation: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Brownhills Lane: Canada Goose - 71 ; Greylag Goose - 62 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Curlew - 7

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Linnet - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - over ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male over, harassed by crow

Forge Dam: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - perched on tree next to last year's nesting hole

Grange Park, Ockley Bottom: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming and rattle calls ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Grange Park,Watson*s Tip: Skylark - 1 - singing

Greave*s Piece: Yellowhammer - 8 - at least

Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - ad ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Woodpigeon - 180 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - sat in fields E of Bottom Res ; Fieldfare - 10 - c. in trees ; Blackbird - 15 ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - male singing on overhead wires ; Chaffinch - 8 - inc 4 singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - female ; Siskin - 1 - overhead

High Street,Ecclesfield: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing

Holmebrook Valley Park: Bullfinch - 9 - 7 males and 2 females ; Siskin - 5 ; Goosander - 7 - 5 males and 2 females

Kiveton Community Woodland: Grey Partridge - 2 - in fields ; Fieldfare - 10 - in fields ; Little Egret - 2 - feeding in drainage channel next to circular path ; Raven - 1 - flew N calling at 08:59 hrs ; Dunnock - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing

Markham: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 8 - flew NW @ 08:20 ; Raven - 2 ; Whooper Swan - 8 - NW at 08:20 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Partial summer bird on Big Lake from early morning ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling from South of site

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 135 ; Lapwing - 55 ; Skylark - 6 ; Golden Plover - c120

Poolsbrook Marsh: Water Rail - 1 - calling + brief "song" given ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing