Sightings Archive

Shillito Wood: Great Tit - 18 ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Robin - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 17 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 20 - inc,6s14n ; Gadwall - 4 - -2pr ; Pochard - 4 - m ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Goldeneye - 3 - mff ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 240 ; Black-headed Gull - 160 ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Skylark - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 ; Rook - 100+ - in from east into field to se of site ; Carrion Crow - 56+ - inc.50+ came in with rook into t/tops ; House Sparrow - 8+ - calling from cover ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Chaffinch - 13 ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 ; Bullfinch - 6

Aldwarke: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Magpie - 7 ; Redwing - 3 ; Pink-footed Goose - c125 - c50 E @ 0956hrs; 75 SE @ 1012hrs ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Herring Gull - 4 - SW ; Woodcock - 2 - flushed within a few metres of each other ; Jack Snipe - 1 - flushed almost literally under observer's nose! ; Greylag Goose - 40 - SW @ 1016hrs (probably 'Grey' geese from Dalton/Thrybergh earlier)

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - feeding on top of chimney @ 0735hrs; gone by 0750hrs (hunting by floodlights?)

Blackburn Meadows NR: Pink-footed Goose - 130 at least - East at 9.50 ; Snipe - 1 ; Jack Snipe - 1 - Flushed from North West corner of Ferham Lake. ; Water Rail - 1 ; 320 - 9

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 38

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Female, made its way under bridge downstream. 15.00

East Herringthorpe: Pink-footed Goose - 60-70 - E @ 0914hrs

Firsby Res: Cormorant - 1 ; Fieldfare - 4+ ; Redwing - 10+ ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - In trees near cottage. ; Lesser Redpoll - 20+ - Feeding in tree tops. ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Red-legged Partridge - 3

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4+ - in woods by Charles Ashmore car park - very vocal.

Kimberworth: Pink-footed Goose - 300-400 - East calling at 11.46

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 1800 ; Common Gull - 74 ; Bewick's Swan - 7 - Adults left towards stocksbridgecat 15.35 ; Shelduck - 2 - 1 pair South East at 15.25 ; 320 - 55 ; Mallard - 26 ; Cormorant - 1 - Sub adult

Lodge Moor: Brambling - 1 - At feeder ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Kestrel - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; Raven - 3 ; Crossbill - 7 ; Bullfinch - 7 ; Brambling - 1 - On feeders ; Goldfinch - 9 - On feeders ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Female

Mam Tor: Stonechat - 2 - Male and female in gorse on Edale side

Millhouses garden: Grey Wagtail - 1

Morehall tip / R.Don: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Pink-footed Goose - c100 - heading east @ 9.45 ; Cormorant - 1 - on river . ; Woodcock - 1 - at riverside . ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 - feeding in sycamores . ; Coal Tit - 3 - with l.t.t. ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Mandarin - 4 - flying upriver .

North Lees, Hathersage: Kingfisher - 1 - on small brook, calling a lot and last seen heading up past the campsite.

Norwood Allotments: Raven - 2 - over west calling at 13:30 ; Starling - 11 - over east just before dusk. The first from here for several days. Very scarce lately.

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 4 - 2 ads + 2 juvs until 09:20

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Herring Gull - 9 - 7 N; 1 E; 1 SW ; Siskin - 9+ - over, calling ; Magpie - 11 ; Raven - 2 - low to SW calling @ 0750hrs; lost over Parkgate