Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Bullfinch - 2

Thrybergh Tip: Common Buzzard - 3 - up to 3 soaring over, interacting with Ravens & SH ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over with BZ ; Raven - 2 - flew SW, sparring with Buzzard & Sparrowhawk before settling on separate pylons @ 0900hrs. Left S, gaining height over Dalton & disappearing over Listerdale/Brecks, mobbed by smaller corvids @ 0919hrs

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - 8

Abbeydale Golf Club: Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 2

Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult, Warren St ; Black-headed Gull - c250 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c20 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c20 ; Herring Gull - c80 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c15

Bingham Park: 319 - 1 - Circling just above tree top level

Cinder Hills: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew to Scholes Coppice with prey

Crowhole: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Redwing - 3+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Tufted Duck - 5 - rare here ; Pheasant - 4 - all males ; Collared Dove - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Jackdaw - 10+

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - 1 displaying well at top end of top dam.

Froggatt Edge: 319 - 2+ - pair diving and mewing. Later, one circling high. ; Redwing - 25-30 - over SW ; Kestrel - 1 - mobbed by fieldfare ; Fieldfare - 3

Hathersage: Dipper - 1 - On Hood Brook, Mill Lane ; Kestrel - 1 - Carrhead Rocks

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Different bird to Endcliffe Park sighting

Kimberworth: Phyllosc sp - 1+ - 1-2 feeding on insects on a sycamore tree at the bottom of the garden. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - In the tall trees at the bottom of the garden.

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Hunting low over Remount Road

Morley Pond: Mute Swan - 4 - Resident family ; Mallard - 10+ ; Pheasant - 30+

Pebley Pond: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 2 - First for this site ; Peregrine - 1 - Mobbed by gulls and crows ; Raven - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Snipe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 16 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Cormorant - c10

R Don. Bessemer Way: Kingfisher - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Shepherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Wren - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 8 - + ; Grey Heron - 1 - j ; Mute Swan - 7 - inc pr +3j ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - in with g/lag/canads ; Greylag Goose - 52 - inc.buff col hybrid ; Canada Goose - 108 - #NAME? ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Shoveler - 5 - 3m2f ; Wigeon - 1 - f/j ; Pochard - 17 - 13m4f ; Tufted Duck - 68+ ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 13 ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 3 - inc 1jv s1w 1- 2cy ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Wren - 10 ; Dunnock - 13 ; Robin - 11 ; Redwing - 3 ; Fieldfare - 16 - flushed flew n ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Chaffinch - 16 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - 02-Feb ; Goldfinch - 70 - +inc flock 35 + s ; Siskin - 1 - s

Barlow Common: Sparrowhawk - 1