Sightings Archive

Worrall: Black Redstart - 1 - photo ; Black Redstart - 1 - photo

Agden Res: Siskin - 30+ - Dropping off trees opposite Smallfield Cottage, on Smallfield Lane to bird feeders ; Goldcrest - 7 - Feeding with long tailed tits in trees near Agden Bog

Foolow: Skylark - 2 ; Skylark - 2 - First of year

Forge Dam: Mallard - 37 ; Mandarin - 1 - Female ; Moorhen - 3 ; Treecreeper - 2 - Courtship behaviour

Frecheville: Goosander - 7 - Frecheville pond

Handsworth: Woodpigeon - 2 - 1 pair mating.

Leash Fen: Little Owl - 1 ; Lapwing - c42 ; Skylark - 3

Limb Valley: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - 1 drumming, 1 excavating hole ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling in hedgerow in fields SW of main valley ; Raven - 1 - One flew NE over valley

Lodge Moor: Skylark - 12 - single party spooked from field between Brownhills Lane and Lodge Moor estate - first returning birds to uplands here

Moss Road, Totley: Skylark - 1 ; Willow Tit - 2 ; Pheasant - 7+

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Coming into breeding plumage ; Shelduck - 3 - Main Lake ; Oystercatcher - 2 - Island, Small Lake ; 320 - 15+ ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Goosander - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ ; Skylark - 12+ - At least two singing ; Stonechat - 2

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Great Black-backed Gull - 33 ; Herring Gull - c140 - loafing on waste ground.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blue Tit - 1pr - visiting nestbox ; Woodpigeon - 3 - eating ivy berries

Redmires: Greylag Goose - 69 - In field above farm on Soughley Lane including individual with white flash ; Canada Goose - 16

Rivelin Valley: FIRECREST - 1 - in Rivelin Rough with Long-tailed Tit flock.

Storrs Dike: Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 70+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; Wigeon - 1 - Female

Ulley Res: Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Ulley Res, NE arm: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling late morning ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Upperdale: Dipper - 2 - Pair downstream from bridge

Wardlow: Skylark - 1

Wortley Hall: Mistle Thrush - 5 - 1 singing ; Goldfinch - c30 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Blackbird - 20+ ; Skylark - c60 - Initially unseen until lifted by passing Sparrowhawk ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 20+ ; Lapwing - 152 - Very flighty as they roamed general area. ; Jackdaw - c200 ; 319 - 2 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Mallard - 150+ ; Woodpigeon - c500 ; Red-legged Partridge - c50 ; Redwing - c10 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 50+ - Feeding on decaying sunflower patch

Baslow: Peregrine - 1 - Flying east at 16.15

Crookes: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - over School Road towards South Road

Cross Hill Ecclesfield: Pheasant - 1 - feeding under feeders.

Elsecar: Bullfinch - 4

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 2 - together in R Porter just below upper pond ; Black-headed Gull - 60+

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 7

Hagg Lane Allotments: Red Kite - 1 - Heading NE over allotments.at 11:05

Handsworth: Woodpigeon - 1 - My frist singing bird of the year.

Harley: Long-tailed Tit - 11

Heatherlee Farm, near Apperknowle: Little Owl - 1 - Calling after dark

Hillsborough Park: Canada Goose - c80 ; Black-headed Gull - c150 ; Herring Gull - 2 - 2w's ; Mute Swan - 4 - adult pair, and 2 juvs, socially distancing. ; Goosander - 2 - redheads ; Redwing - 34 - feeding under trees ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1

Kimberworth: Robin - 5 - feeding in the garden at the same time. Record number for the garden.

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Bullfinch - 5 - small feeding flock ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - over calling

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - 20+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - heard ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - heard

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 37