Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Avocet - 1 - Still “feeding “ at 10.40. Wary of gulls. ; Pink-footed Goose - 110 - East at 10.05 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 180 ; Fieldfare - 100+ - In shelter belt on road to Longstone Edge ; Lapwing - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ ; 320 - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Rook - 12+ - four of them mobbing the Sparrowhawk ; Woodpigeon - 250 - Fly overs ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 10 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 235 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Redwing - 150 ; Fieldfare - 400 ; Starling - 100 ; Meadow Pipit - 23 ; Chaffinch - 7 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Linnet - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Brambling - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 350 - 2 large skeins over

Orgreave Lakes: Lesser Redpoll - c50 - by railway footbridge ; Snipe - 2 ; Common Gull - 1 - Fly through ; Stonechat - 1 - Male

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 45

Rocher Head: Peregrine - 1 - Young bird circling overhead before heading SW at height. ; Crossbill - 10 - out of White Lee Moor wood calling

Shillito Wood: 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Starling - 60 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Chaffinch - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 13 ; Cormorant - 7 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 10 - +1 feral white ; Canada Goose - 130+ ; Gadwall - 6 ; Wigeon - 1 - m ; Pochard - 25 - 15m,10f ; Tufted Duck - 62+ ; Goldeneye - 3 - mff ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 60+ ; Black-headed Gull - 100 ; Skylark - 15 - inc 11 in fields ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 3 - 2+1 west ; Wren - 10 ; Dunnock - 10 ; Robin - 19 ; Blackbird - 15 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Tit - 12 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ - north calling ; Siskin - 1 - west calling ; Goldfinch - 50 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Totley Bents: Crossbill - 10+ - At Dyson Factory; 1 early morning left SW, then 1 blogging overhead, then 9 SW. ; Brambling - 3+ - Several sightings of singles ; 327 - 9+ - maximum flock of 5

Wingfield School: Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Rook - c40 ; Jackdaw - 5+

Woodhouse Tip: Cormorant - 2 - North ; Fieldfare - 170+ - Sw in 4 flocks ; Redwing - 50+ - Sw in several small groups ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Sw

Agden: Brambling - 3 ; Woodpigeon - thousands - All migrating south too many to count

Barlow Common: 319 - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 3

Baugy Hill, S of Kiveton: Lapwing - 12 - in field ; Golden Plover - 1 - with Lapwings

Bole Hill Rec: 319 - 1 - Flew out of woodland off Bole Hill Road, then low over rooftops towards Rivelin.