Sightings Archive

Totley Moss: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting towards Big Moor

Treeton Dyke: Coot - 82 - N end only ; Canada Goose - 39 ; Gadwall - 18 - N end only ; Tufted Duck - 22 - N end only ; Kingfisher - 1 - Fished successfully N end ; Mute Swan - 17 - 3 pairs with 5, 5 and 1 imms respectively; all at N end

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1

Wadsley: Redwing - 8 - 8 N

Wentworth Park: Long-tailed Tit - 9+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - with LT flock ; Stock Dove - 4 - over ; Starling - 10 - SW ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Swallow - 2 - feeding over recently ploughed field ; Redwing - c55 - W ; Siskin - 2+ - over ; Skylark - present - small numbers over, moving S ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Rook - 14 - feeding together ; Pink-footed Goose - 20 - E @ 0930hrs

Wentworth Park; Brookshank Wood: Common Buzzard - 1

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Song Thrush - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mallard - c160 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Siskin - 1 - in alders ; Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 11 ; Mandarin - 1 - female ; Mute Swan - 2+ - pair + 5 1cy. One adult under wires in adjacent field for some time, possibly having collided ; Lapwing - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Redwing - c30 - in field to N; left SW ; Woodpigeon - c50 - in field to N ; Stock Dove - 2 - with WP flock

White Lee Moor: Common Buzzard - 5 - in air together

Agden Beck: Fieldfare - 1 - With Mistle Thrushes

Baslow area: 319 - 2 - Over 13 bends

Baslow Edge: Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Fields below Edge

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 in the air together at 1330

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 50+ ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1

Charlton Brook, High Green: Grey Wagtail - 3 - Assumed family group, plenty of calling

Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 1 - flew across road

Curbar: 319 - 2

Green Moor: Pheasant - 60+ - Remnants of game release ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Linacre Res: Mallard - 101 ; Mandarin - 96 ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 3 ; Little Grebe - 2

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 3 - nocmig: 20:58 and 21:10

Orgreave Lakes: Jay - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Tufted Duck - 10+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - inc 1 immature with mystery wader in background ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35+ ; Pochard - 70+ ; Goosander - 1 - Male ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Lapwing - 25+ ; 320 - 10 ; Gadwall - 7 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 - together ; Cormorant - 1 ; 319 - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Crossbill - 7 - flew low W at 11:20 ; Skylark - 24 - strung out flock heading W, in same field of view as Crossbills that I was watching at the time.

Rawmarsh; High Street: Canada Goose - c20 - NW very low @ 0903hrs, several narrowly missing Methodist's church spire

Redmires Res: Whooper Swan - 5 - ads arrived onto the Middle Res at 08:18 hrs ; Mallard - 22 ; Tufted Duck - 2

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Swallow - 14 - Perched on wires by old race course field and feeding over fields late afternoon ; mostly imms ; Stonechat - 4 - Feeding from stone walls by old race course field; one male ; 319 - 1 - Over low, heading W

Wadsley Common garde: Whitethroat - 1 - Flitting around garden bushes.

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Crossbill - 1

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 2 - SW @ 0825hrs ; Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over @ 0755hrs, drifted W, then away NE ; Cormorant - 10 - 8 SW + 2 on pylon

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 2 - 1 hunting FPs @ 0800hrs before settling on chimney. Second bird appeared by 0845hrs with several unsuccessful hunting forays

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 in the air together at 0930

Carr Vale: BITTERN - 1 - W of Bolsover, flew south over Mill Farm towards Carr Vale NR at 08.00hrs

Ecclesfield: Tawny Owl - 2 - Male calling from Hartley Brook, Fem in garden, Cross Hill, replying, flew over house at 01:13.

Killamarsh: Grey Partridge - 10 - covey near Boiley Farm

Kimberworth: Grey Wagtail - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Long-tailed Tit - c10 - mobile flock ; Magpie - c20 - before sunrise ; Redwing - 9 - 6 SW; 3 E/SE