Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Tit - 15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 - flock ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Little Owl - 1 - Perched on Hedge in small paddock Thrybergh Lane end @ 16:30hrs

Walkley garden: Goldfinch - 6 - daily at nyger feeder since 1st Jan, highest count 14.

Wentworth: Pink-footed Goose - 60 - flew west at c09:45 ; Hawfinch - 1 - again on tree top near stable block by Wentworth Woodhouse.

Agden Side: Fieldfare - Oct-20 - Flying over Agden Side Road into fields above rocks ; Kestrel - 1 - Male.

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 3 - on pylon ; Redwing - 6 ; Pied Wagtail - 5 - feeding together ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - with party of PW ; Linnet - 4 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Aldwarke SF: Pheasant - 1 - cock, disturbed by Fox ; Magpie - 13 - harassing hunting Fox ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Song Thrush - 7 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - NE ; Coot - 1 - on tiny area of ice-free water ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/imm

Beauchief Golf Course: 319 - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - by Abbey

Bitholmes Wood: Nuthatch - 2 - Two birds heard calling ; Common Buzzard - 1 - hunting in woodland and taking large prey in flight, possibly Grey Squirrel. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Bullfinch - 10+ - Small flock feeding in brambles

Canklow Woods: Pink-footed Goose - 47 - 47 NW at 09:40

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 3 ; Gadwall - 34 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Gadwall - 22 ; 320 - 29 ; Coot - 33 ; Herring Gull - 2 - on ice ; Black-headed Gull - 70 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flew S

Centenary Riverside: Mallard - 4 - on river ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Cormorant - 6+ - in area - river & adjacent canal ; Goosander - 6 - 2 NW; 4 NE ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Redwing - 5 ; Redwing - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - with LT flock ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Water Rail - 1 - calling from Typha ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 20 - W/NW @ 0840hrs ; Jackdaw - 16 - E, towards town centre just after dawn, probably leaving roost

Clod Hall Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 74 - Flying east at 11.02.

Firsby Res: Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male perched at side of Arbour Lane. ; Woodcock - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Fieldfare - 40+ - Large flock over. ; Redwing - 3 - Over. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 12 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Robin - 5

Graves Park: Shoveler - 2 - Pair still present on boating lake ; Kestrel - 1

Hangingwater garden: Siskin - 1 - f on peanuts

Monsal Dale: Dipper - 6 - 2 singing ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 1 - imm on river downstream of Upperdale ; 320 - 3 - 1m, 2f ; Goosander - 3 - 1m, 2f ; Raven - 3

Norton Lees: Long-tailed Tit - 2 - On fat balls in observer’s garden

Orgreave Lakes: Pintail - 1 - male on small lake and flying between lakes with small group of Teal. ; Snipe - 1 ; Scaup - 1 - 1st yr drake ; Wigeon - 92 ; 320 - 40 ; Pochard - 90 ; Snipe - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - by weir ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair along west bank below tip road ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - in plantation on western side of small lake ; Linnet - 20 - below bank behind small lake plantation.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c95 - inc 12 2cy ; Herring Gull - 10 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Mallard - 60-70 ; Cormorant - 1 - circled & left N