Sightings Archive

Poolsbrook CP: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - a 2cy this morning

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 26 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Gadwall - 22 ; Shoveler - 8 - 5m3f ; 320 - 21 ; Pochard - 26 ; Tufted Duck - 38 ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 2 ; Herring Gull - 29 - inc. 12s 14s 1w ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 1s ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 100 - +

Walkley garden: Redwing - 14 - In flight over and perched in ash tree.

Baslow: Cormorant - 4

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 19

Big Moor: Fieldfare - 70+ - Roosting in heather

Bingham Park: 320 - 3

Chatsworth Park: Mandarin - 19 ; 321 - 3 ; Redwing - 25 ; Fieldfare - 45 ; Coot - 23 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - Still with Canada Geese by cricket ground

Curbar: Dipper - 03-Apr - on a half mile stretch of the River Derwent ; Mandarin - 22 ; Goosander - 6 ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4

Firsby Res: 320 - 2 - Over at dawn. No other water fowl due to both Res iced over. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from cottage garden fir tree. ; Woodcock - 1 - In set aside field at dawn. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male roosting high in a tree. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Magpie - 2 - Coming to kitchen scraps.

Fulwood garden: Stock Dove - 1 - Unusual garden visitor

Hillsborough Park: Nuthatch - 1 - rear of library

Howden Res: Crossbill - c12 - Crossbill sp: brief flight views of flock this afternoon ; Siskin - c30 - feeding in Larches

Kiveton: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden

Lodge Moor: Redwing - 4 - Feeding in leaf litter under bushes and drinking from puddles ; Song Thrush - One - Feeding in garden ; Lesser Redpoll - One - At sunflower hearts feeder with tits and finches ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - One - Regular visitor to garden feeder ; Bullfinch - 1 male, 1 f - Visiting garden feeder

Norfolk Park: Redwing - c50 - on football pitches ; Magpie - 32 ; Nuthatch - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female

Orgreave Lakes: Scaup - 1 - imm. male ; Coot - 1 - part leucistic bid in NW corner ; Little Grebe - 1 - In river near weir ; Goosander - 2 - m & f ; Kingfisher - 1 - on fence between lakes

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: 321 - 1 - SW @ 09.45 ; Cormorant - 7 - S @ 08.10 & 3 N @ 9.15 ; Goosander - 1 - S @ 09.35 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Herring Gull - 12 - S & 8 N ; Great Black-backed Gull - 21 - S ; Redwing - 3 - SW ; Fieldfare - 15 - SW ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - over ; Bullfinch - 4 - high to SW

Rivelin Valley: Redwing - 14 - Flying South West , settling briefly in Rivelin Valley Lime trees

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 19 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 60+ ; Canada Goose - 71 ; Gadwall - 11 - 6m,5f ; Shoveler - 6 - 5m,1f ; Pochard - 16 - 10m,6f ; Tufted Duck - 39 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Lapwing - 160+ ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - past ne ; Dunnock - 19 ; Robin - 27 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Fieldfare - 8 - past w ; Blackbird - 29 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - flock ; Bullfinch - 10 - 3-2-1-4 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - m