Sightings Archive

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 5

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Scattering winter Thrushes. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Pair roosting close together. ; Jackdaw - 2 - Down in sheep paddock. ; Jay - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 10+ - Flushed by Buzzard. ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On house roof. ; Linnet - 1 - Over.

Hagg Lane Allotments: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Robin - 3 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Magpie - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1

Limb Valley: Tawny Owl - 1 - heard

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 179 - site record count ; Mallard - 181 ; Tufted Duck - 69 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 48 ; Goosander - 9 - 5M, 4F ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Millhouses Lane garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, spooking the bird feeder visitors ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - two males noisily facing up to each other in a neighbouring tree while female visited suet ball feeder, one of the males being an interloper on the usual visiting pair ; Redwing - 1 - holly berries again ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - feeding on front lawn

Onesmoor: Golden Plover - c70 - landed in fields

Orgreave Lakes: Shelduck - 2 ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Lapwing - 66 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 1st winter

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 - Chuntering song from rock in the river, near the playground.

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - c40 ; Corvid - 30+ - mix of Jackdaw and Rook.

Whirlow - Whinfell Quarry Gardens: Nuthatch - 1

Aldwarke: Redwing - 05-Jun - Feeding on berries Liberty steels. 11.30

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Goldfinch - c. 20

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - c15 - roostinig in roadside trees, Brightside Lane.

Broomhall: Blackbird - 1 - singing near Conway Street.

Canklow Woods: 324 - 3 - 3 Roe Deer feeding below Boston Castle at 10:05

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 1 - by Hunter's Bar at 8:00.and again at 16:10 ; Black-headed Gull - 140+

Greystones: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew through observer's garden

Moorhall: Stonechat - 4 ; Stonechat - 4 - Another photo ; Pheasant - 10 ; Yellowhammer - 20 - Record shot

Norwood Allotments: Blackcap - 2 - male and female together today

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ad and near ad pre-roost

Owler Bar: Sparrowhawk - 1

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - c30 - over

Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 2, male and female

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 4 - 3 seen together, 2 with silver rings on right leg ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Mandarin - 7

Stocksbridge: White-fronted Goose - 1 - single flew east at 15:05

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1

Wingfield: Feral Pigeon - 80+ - @ Flats E of Forty Martyrs.

Baslow: 321 - 1

Big Moor: 324 - c33 - Red Deer - 3 stags + a herd of 30

Chatsworth Park: Siskin - c30 - Feeding in alder ; Wren - 1 ; 321 - 1 over

Dog Kennel Pond: 319 - 1 - In from N, low across lake calling. ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1pr later onto Morley Pond ; Mallard - 30+ ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - calls, but not seen. ; Woodpigeon - 70+ - Between lake and Rockingham Wood

Ecclesall: Long-tailed Tit - 13+ ; Whooper Swan - 8 - Flew low to the NE calling loudly at 10:52 ; Pink-footed Goose - 32 - flew low to the WNW at 11:40 hrs

Ecclesall Woods: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female

Fulwood: Brambling - 2 - males at feeders in observer's garden ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - at feeders

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 9 - 4 male, 5 redhead

Kimberworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Sparrowhawk flying low through trees into Bradgate Park from gardens backing on to the park.

Kimberworth Park: Starling - 40+