Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Herring Gull - 3 ; Lapwing - 5 ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; 321 - 1 ; Starling - c2500 - flocks over disappearing into the mist towards no3

Millhouses garden: Blackcap - 1 - male

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Redwing - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - E ; Long-tailed Tit - 15-20 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - left SW

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Red-legged Partridge - 26 ; Raven - 2 - flew low to SE, tumbling & rolling @ 0925hrs before heading E towards Aldwarke ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 6 - 4m; 2f, feeding by roadside ; Chaffinch - c10 - feeding by roadside ; Brambling - 1 - female, feeding by roadside with mixed flock ; Reed Bunting - 2 - feeding by roadside ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - c5

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chaffinch - 1 ; Common Gull - 4 - 2 + 2, SW ; Fieldfare - 9 - W

Parkgate; Scrooby Lane to Glossop Lodge: Song Thrush - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 23 ; Bullfinch - 1 - over ; Fieldfare - 12 ; Moorhen - 1 - in stream ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - by stream

R Derwent, Stoke Hall-Calver: Mandarin - 58 - 45 Stoke Hall, 13 above Calver ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Redwing - c15 - in Hawthorns ; Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Long-tailed Tit - c5 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - male

Roundwood Golf course: Fieldfare - 1 ; Goosander - 2 - redheads, SW @ 0748hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: Woodpigeon - c.600 - big flock NE at 08.40 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Mute Swan - 6 - resident pair and 4 juvs. ; Coot - c.15 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Herring Gull - 2 - west ; Jackdaw - 4 - 4 singles NW ; Fieldfare - 8 ; Blackbird - c.30 ; Jay - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 30+ ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Strines Res: Whooper Swan - 18 - 16 adults, 2 juvs. Still present early afternoon. ; Whooper Swan - 18 - another photo

Upper Common, Scholes: Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Brambling - 2+ ; Linnet - 40+ - Still feeding in flax crop.

Westthorpe: FIRECREST - 1 - male trapped and ringed

Wharncliffe Chase: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Wortley Park: Greenfinch - c70 - Part of a large mixed finch group ; Chaffinch - c50 ; Linnet - c10 ; Siskin - c5 ; Redwing - c10 ; Jay - 3 ; Woodpigeon - c500 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Mallard - c70 ; Goldcrest - 1

Big Moor: 324 - 69 - Red Deer - 6 groups & 2 singles

Catcliffe Flash: Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Wigeon - 15+ ; Gadwall - 20+ ; 320 - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Shoveler - 1 - Male

Dronfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female eating pigeon in field adjacent to golf course ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 ; Goldfinch - 15 ; Goldcrest - 1

Gillfield Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Male calling strongly. Two others responding nearby but outside wood. ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 - Moving alone as a flock through tall hedge south side of wood

Langsett: Pink-footed Goose - c120 - SW

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; 320 - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Fieldfare - 50