Sightings Archive

Manor Fields Park: Long-tailed Tit - 4 - on feeders ; Great Tit - 4 - on feeders ; Blue Tit - 5 - on feeders

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 1 - Male ; Shelduck - 1 - Male ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead ; 320 - 4 ; Curlew - 65

Norton Lees: Stock Dove - 2 - In observer’s garden

Orgreave Lakes: Pochard - 15+ - Male and female ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 20+ - Male and female ; Skylark - 6+ - Singing ; Lapwing - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 500+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Goosander - 7 - Male and female ; Goldeneye - 3 - Male and female ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Gadwall - 5 - Male and female ; Redshank - 3

Parker’s Lane: Treecreeper - 1 - Climbing local Ash

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - N in 2hrs ; Magpie - 12 - inc pair at nest ; Redwing - 4 - inc 3 SW ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, hunting ; Peregrine - 2 - one flew low & fast to W @ 0703hrs, closely followed by second, both returning to soar over Liberty Steel site @ 0706hrs; male stooped at local Kestrel

Ravenfield: Little Owl - 2 - Pair in tree at side of Braithwell Road, far end near junction for recycling centre.

Rawmarsh: Cormorant - 1 - high to E @ 1050hrs ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting @ 1450hrs

Redmires Bottom Res: Sparrowhawk - 1 - in waterworks plantation

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 15 - in horse fields

Redmires Top Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; 319 - 2 - over car park

Renishaw: Mandarin - 3 - 2 males, 1 female on Chapel Wheel Dam

Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 2 - pair, mobbing MGs suggesting nest nearby

RVCP, Main Lake: Redshank - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Grey Heron - 4 - 2 sat on nests ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Goosander - 3 ; Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Goldeneye - 7 ; Goosander - 4 ; Cormorant - 14 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4

Sharrow: 321 - 1 - Stalker Lees Rd, mobbed by 2 Crows

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 19 - inc.5-2nd cy ; Tufted Duck - 10 - inc.4f ; Water Rail - 3 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 40 - + ; Black-headed Gull - 300 - +inc 80+res 220+flushed from fields to se ; Common Gull - 2 - ad came in ; Herring Gull - 3 - inc 1ad 2-2cy ; Skylark - 4 - sing ; Wren - 6 - sing ; Dunnock - 18 ; Robin - 14 ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Redwing - 10 - past ne ; Fieldfare - 20 - #NAME? ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Goldfinch - 18 ; Bullfinch - 12 - 02-Oct ; Reed Bunting - 10 - 1sing +10 at feed stat. ; Yellowhammer - 5

Blackburn Meadows NR: Little Grebe - 1 ; Gadwall - 4 ; 320 - 8 ; Green Sandpiper - 1 ; Snipe - 2

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 3 - in roadside fields ; Greylag Goose - 19 - ; Canada Geese - 8 ; Lapwing - 1+ - scattered across fields

Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Ecclesall: Waxwing - 2 - Preening in tree ~100m from top end of Blair Athol Rd at 7:15 ; Waxwing - 2 - 2 Waxwing preening, Blair Atholl Rd at 10:10. Feeding on berries in low garden shrub. ; Waxwing - 2 - Another pic ; Waxwing - 2 - Another pic

Howden Res: Brambling - 1 - calling in flight ; Thrush sp - c120 - mixed flock of Fieldfare and Redwing moving through Westend Valley

Kimberworth: Siskin - 1 - On garden seed feeder. Occasional spring visitor to the garden. ; Coal Tit - 2 - Pair on garden peanut feeder

Kiveton community woodland: Chiffchaff - 1 - First one singing this year here

Ladybower Res, North arm: Oystercatcher - 2