Sightings Archive

Stanage Edge, below: Red Grouse - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Swinton Common: Kestrel - 1 - female, mobbing BZ

Swinton Common; Blackamoor Inn Plantn: Common Buzzard - 1 - calling from woodland ; presumably same seen displaying over later

Swinton Common; Blackamoor Road: Pied Wagtail - 7 - feeding in wet field corner ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, hunting along hedgerow

Swinton; Chain Bar Plantation: Coal Tit - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Long-tailed Tit - 01-Feb ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling

Swinton; Creighton Wood: Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 - pair feeding together + 1 calling ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Jackdaw - 1pr - in woodland, by potential nest site

Swinton; Holywell Farm/Hermit Hill: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over together

Swinton; Pottery Ponds: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, over; left E ; Greenfinch - 02-Mar - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Moorhen - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Troway: 319 - 1 - Low over field between Troway & Coal Aston ; Lapwing - 1 - Displaying over field between Troway & Coal Aston

Wath Wood: Coal Tit - 4 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr ; Nuthatch - 01-Feb - calling ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Treecreeper - 01-Feb - calling ; Jay - 2 - flew in from golf course

Wyming Brook: Blue Tit - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Siskin - c20 - High up in spruce tree singing and eating from cones. ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Robin - 1

Barbrook Res: Stonechat - 1 - Male by the cottage.

Barlow Common: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2

Broomhead Res: Mallard - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 1300 - more birds still arriving at 1700 ; Mandarin - 6 - 3 pairs ; Goosander - 3 - 1 male 2 females ; Canada Goose - 8 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - on dam wall ; Moorhen - 2

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 1 - in field ; Lapwing - 1 - in field ; Woodpigeon - c6 - in field ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - c20 - flying up from field by Lodge Moor Plantation

Calver Sough: 319 - 4 - In air together

Damflask Res: Greylag Goose - 24 - in fields ; Redwing - c50 ; Mandarin - 25

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 1 - Male on main Res. ; Mallard - 6 ; Coot - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Starling - 50+ - Flock low over set aside field. ; Jackdaw - 100 - Over to roost. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing.

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 8 - 5M+3F feeding on scraps along with Mallards. ; Mallard - c20 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - by cafe ; Moorhen - 3 - by cafe

Fox Hagg, Rivelin: Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Magpie - 2 ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Carrion Crow - c10 ; Wren - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 3

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; Song Thrush - 2

Howden Res: Crossbill - 1 - heard ; Curlew - 1 - heard

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 38 - part of flock in photo.

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 13

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 2 - 1 pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 - 1 pair ; Great Black-backed Gull - 41 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Herring Gull - 54 ; Black-headed Gull - c400 ; Goosander - 28 - at dusk