Sightings Archive

Friday 26th February 2021

• Aldwarke: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over
• Blacka Moor: Fieldfare - 27 - 27 feeding on ground on Strawberry Field Pastures
• Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 28
• Catcliffe Flash: Gadwall - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 13+ ; Shoveler - 1 - Male ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 25+ ; Herring Gull - 1
• Centenary Riverside: Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 320 - 4 - 3m; 1f ; Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Redwing - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - female, circling over ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Cormorant - 3 - W ; Kingfisher - 1 - on river ; Skylark - 1 - SE
• Ecclesall Woods: Grey Heron - 5 - A pair and three other individuals on a total of four occupied nests. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - Three separate birds drumming in Wood Three.
• Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 - Pair on sluice. ; Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Briefly hunted and made kill. ; 319 - 1 - Over. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male drumming in woodland. ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On wires. ; Fieldfare - 4 - Coming into roost. ; Chaffinch - 4 - All singing Males. ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Barn Owl - 1
• Handsworth: Siskin - 16 - on garden feeders ; Dunnock - 4 - 4 singing males
• Harthill: Little Owl - 2 - pair calling
• Hathersage: Brambling - 1 - On bird feeder in ob's garden
• High Bradfield: White-fronted Goose - 1 - still present in fields below Nether House Farm with c200 Greylags
• Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Jay - 2 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 2 ; 324 - 1 - Roe Deer moving W quickly through centre of wood @ 10:05, 2+ Grey Squirrel.
• Kiveton Community Woodland: Woodcock - 1 - feeding on pit top at dusk
• Lodge Moor: Dunnock - 5
• Long Line: Curlew - 1 ; Greenfinch - 5 ; Goldfinch - 3
• Longshaw: Woodcock - 1 - roding ; Tawny Owl - 1 - heard ; 319 - 1
• Loxley Common: Lapwing - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 40+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Wren - 10+ - Everywhere! ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - 2 groups ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Magpie - 8 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Robin - 10+ ; Blackbird - 10+ - All recorded around car park. trig point and crags. ; Yellowhammer - 4
• Malin Bridge: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig 02:31 ; Dunnock - 1 - nocmig: singing 21:00 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - nocmig calling 21:02 ; Coot - 1 - nocmig calls 22:05
• Manor Fields Park: Blackbird - 11 - 10 males 1 female ; Greenfinch - 5+ ; Magpie - 14 ; Woodpigeon - c20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; House Sparrow - 3 - by the top pond ; Wren - 4 ; Dunnock - 10+ - several displaying males around the whole area ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - 2m 1f ; Blue Tit - 3+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Linnet - c11 - feeding on seeds where meadow-type flowers have been strimmed ; Goldfinch - 1 - among linnet flock ; Great Tit - 7