Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 135 - at 14:00 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Coot - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Cormorant - 15+ ; Reed Bunting - 2

R Rother, Catcliffe: Goosander - 5 - 5 redheads feeding on river.

RVCP: Cormorant - 36 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 220 - marked increase ; Pochard - 30 - marked increase ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Lapwing - 155

Whiston Meadows: Kingfisher - 1

Baslow: 324 - 1

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 1pr - river ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - 1pr + 1f, river ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 320 - 6+ ; Cormorant - 04-May - 4 E/NE; 1 SW ; Grey Heron - 1 - flew upriver ; Jay - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - on river

Chatsworth Park: Jay - 1 ; Siskin - c10 ; Nuthatch - 6 - individuals heard

Chatsworth, Emperor Lake: Mallard - 14 ; Coot - 3 ; Cormorant - 1

Dalton: Woodpigeon - 25 - feeding on playing field

Edale End: Swallow - 5 - skimming low over rough grass between Wooler Knoll and Hope Cross

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 4 - 2 adults main Res, 2 Juvs in bushes over sluice. ; Coot - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - On telegraph pole. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Down in set aside field. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding on sluice. ; 319 - 1 - Circling. ; Swallow - 20+ - Over main Res 13:00 ; Pheasant - 5+ - Family party feeding in hedge bottom. ; Bullfinch - 3+ - Calling along path. ; Chiffchaff - 3 - With LTT flock. ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Goldcrest - 2 - With Tit flock. ; Jackdaw - 5+ - Over calling. ; Song Thrush - 1

Low Common, Scholes: Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Grey Heron - 1 - near boundary with Middle Common, in stubble at 18:11 ; House Martin - 5+ ; Swallow - 10+

Middle Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - on telegraph pole adj Rockingham Wood at 17:15, still there at 18:50 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - calls ; Linnet - 50+

Middleton Moor: Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - Dropped in 10:50, still present 11:30, but not at 18:00 ; Pintail - 1 ; 320 - 53 ; Cormorant - 1 - Flew over west at 10.15

Parkgate Canal Basin: Swallow - 5 - S ; Mute Swan - 6 - adults ; Black-headed Gull - 11 ; Mallard - c45

R Don, Aldwarke: Cormorant - 4 - on pylon ; Long-tailed Tit - 11+ - in two flocks ; Chiffchaff - 5 - in tit-flocks ; Goldcrest - 4 - 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Mallard - 2

R Don, Rotherham; Grafton Bridge: Swallow - 2 - S ; Siskin - 6 - flock, SE ; Kingfisher - 1

RVCP: Redwing - 4 - my first,, ; Snipe - 7 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Shoveler - 4

Upper Common, Scholes: Song Thrush - 1 - into W end of Shepherd's Plantation carrying food ; Magpie - 13+

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair resting on shore. ; Mallard - 2 - Pair. ; Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - Over heading towards TCP mid morning. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; 319 - 1 - On pylon in set aside field. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting. ; Swallow - 1 - Single over. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Calling. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Grey Heron - 1 - High in tree. ; Stock Dove - 2 - Down in recently pliéed set aside field. ; Red-legged Partridge - 9 - Together on farmland. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 calling the other singing.

Forge Dam: 321 - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - Juvenile

Hollow Meadows: Peregrine - 1