Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 19 - May-14 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Blackbird - 40 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - flock ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Kingfisher - 1 - with catch

Thrybergh Res: Barn Owl - 1 - Crossed Thrybergh Lane going towards Silverwood pit top @ 16.30 approx.

Big Moor: Stonechat - 1 - Male

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 47 - plus one Pinkfoot

Derwentdale: PARROT CROSSBILL - 3 ; PARROT CROSSBILL - 3 - 3 ID ed a s parrots in flock of 12 Crossbills. Only saw 3 well .

Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing ; Common Gull - 1 - Flew in at 14:21 for 1min, then left. ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Jay - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Flew down river ; Kestrel - 1 - Over lake

Howden Res: Goosander - 2 - Males ; Raven - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

lFroggatt Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 - Male feeding down stream of bridge.

R Don, Wicker: Goosander - 1 - male

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 1 - S @ 14.35 ; Goosander - 2 - E @ 14.30 ; Mallard - 17 - W ; 319 - 1 - W ; Herring Gull - 8 - S

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 21 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 15 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 120+ ; Canada Goose - 74 ; Gadwall - 16 - 8pr ; 320 - 4 ; Pochard - 14 - inc 8 in ; Tufted Duck - 70 ; Goldeneye - 1 - f ; Kestrel - 2 - inc.1e ; Water Rail - 2 - feeding ; Lapwing - 100 ; Black-headed Gull - 130+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2nd w ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 9 ; Dunnock - 25 ; Robin - 24 ; Blackbird - 59 ; Blue Tit - 16 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - flock ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singles

Walkley garden: Redwing - 18 - flock feeding on berried shrubs

Baslow: Mandarin - 19 - On river downstream of bridge

Botanical Gardens: Goldcrest - 1 - Flitting through large rosmary bushes near top entrance.

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

Chatsworth Park: Goosander - 9 ; Mute Swan - 4

Edge Mount: Skylark - c60 - mobile flock feeding in rape field next to Delf rd . ; Wren - 2 - including 1 in full song .

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 2 - Next to Hunters Bar at 7:25

Hudson*s Rough: Bullfinch - 2 - males ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+

Mosborough: Goldcrest - 1 - Plumbley Lane, in bushes at side of allotments.

Norton Lees: Sparrowhawk - 1

Peat Pits: Raven - 1 - heading west . ; Golden Plover - 243 - 2 separate groups sat in rape field

R Don, Blonk St: Kingfisher - 1 - Dived into river from underside of Derek Dooley Way bridge

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Goosander - 2 - redheads

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Goosander - 1 - SW @ 15.35

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Common Gull - 1

Shillito Wood: Siskin - 25+ - Feeding in alders with 8 goldfinches

Walkley garden: Redwing - 12 - small flock flying around berried shrubs/trees

Wingfield School playing field: Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Rook - 20+ ; Jackdaw - 1+ ; Magpie - 2

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 11 - On filters in freezing conditions ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Siskin - 6 - In alders ; Goosander - 1 - Drake flying upriver

Bingham Park: Goldcrest - 1 - Lower pond

Forge Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - female

Norton Lees: Redwing - 1 - In holly tree at back of observer’s garden.

Silverwood Lagoon: Goldeneye - 2 - females

Walkley garden: Redwing - 2 - pair feeding on hawthorn berries

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 37 - also one pinkfoot