Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Black-headed Gull - 60 - + ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Skylark - 4 - sing ; Wren - 9 - sing ; Dunnock - 26 ; Robin - 32 ; Song Thrush - 4 - 2sing ; Blackbird - 15 ; Fieldfare - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Magpie - 14 - 7pr ; Jackdaw - 2 - singles n ; Rook - 2 - se ; Chaffinch - 11 - 4sing ; Linnet - 1 - sing ; Bullfinch - 21 - 4-3-2-12 ; Reed Bunting - 11 - 4sing ; Yellowhammer - 5

Wadsley Common: Yellowhammer - 8+ - Near top car park, slope below feeders

West Nab: Reed Bunting - 2 - pair in rough pasture .

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 2 - adult pair sheltering from rain on Bernard Road incinerator building

Brownhills Lane: Lapwing - 3

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 2 - m+f lower lake at 16:30

Green Moor: Red Kite - 1 - Landed in a tree briefly before being mobbed by two Carrion Crows. Bedraggled untagged bird then flew North ; Red Kite - 1 - Photo ; Red Kite - 1 - Photo

Greystones: Grey Heron - 1 - Flew over observer's garden

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - C50+

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 1 - Low over small lake at 07:25 ; Shoveler - 2 - Pair briefly on small lake. Flew towards Treeton Dyke at 1005.

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 4 - sat on top of building.

Stanage: Red Grouse - 13 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - singles ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Canada Goose - 18 ; Pochard - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 30 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Redshank - 1 - call not seen in bad light ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - m past e ; Bullfinch - 17 - inc.11 6m5f at feed stat.

Ulley CP: Scaup - 1 - back from Orgreave.

Agden Beck: Red Kite - 1 - Agden Beck - Hollingdale - Dale Dyke mid afternoon

Agden Res: Curlew - 7 - tight flock

Aldwarke: Lapwing - 2 ; Redwing - 3+ ; Woodcock - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - on pylon @ 1000hrs

Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 2 - left N/NE, joined by a second ; Skylark - 3 - W ; Mallard - 2prs ; Gadwall - 7 - 4m; 3f; aerial display ; Coot - 10 ; Little Grebe - 1pr ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - W ; Magpie - 16+ ; Shoveler - 8 - 5m; 3f ; Goldfinch - c20 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Goldcrest - 2 ; 320 - 1pr ; Pheasant - 1 - hen ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 1058hrs

Bole Hill Rec: Tawny Owl - 2 - Male and female calling in woods off Bole Hill Road. Male hooting and making courtship "trilling" call.

Dalton: Kestrel - 1

Damflask Res: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Remains of dead bird on footpath. Appeared to have been killed by another raptor.

Denaby Common: Reed Bunting - 2 - inc one singing

Denaby Common/Low Meadow: Canada Goose - 18 ; Gadwall - 12+ ; Wigeon - c250 ; Lapwing - 30-35 ; Greylag Goose - 5 - inc 2 S ; 320 - 20+ ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Mallard - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 15-20 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 3cy ; Carrion Crow - 12 ; Goosander - 1pr - flew downriver

Dronfield garden: Siskin - 5 ; Brambling - 5 - 4M, 1F

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 3 ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pairs main Res. ; 320 - 1 - Male ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Displaying ; Chiffchaff - 1 - First record of the year singing ; Bullfinch - 7 - Males ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Skylark - 2 - Singing. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Goldcrest - 1