Sightings Archive

Ughill Moors: Golden Plover - 7

Wickersley: Red Kite - 1 - Over Sorby Way football pitches approx 16.15 heading West.

Barlow Common: Swallow - 1 ; Skylark - 03-Apr ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Beauchief Abbey Ponds: 320 - 3 - 3; 2 females. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - nest building in large Ash. ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing in Willows

Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Male and female, 150m NW of Charles Ashmore CP. ; Blackcap - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - pair engaged in 'butterfly' display flight early AM. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair displaying ; Stock Dove - 2 - 2 singing Charles Ashmore Road car park area

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 1 - male

R Sheaf, Heeley: Mandarin - 2 - a pair - Nr Broadfield Road

Ravenfield Church: Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male. ; Song Thrush - 2 - In Horse Paddock.

Ravenfield Ponds: Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male.

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: Oystercatcher - 2 - circled lagoon a couple of times at 08.15 then flew west

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 27 - 18m9f ; 319 - 2 - in se soar. ; Kestrel - 1 - past nw ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 - in briefly dep. ne ; Black-headed Gull - 20 ; Herring Gull - 3 - 2ad 1 2cy ; Skylark - 7 - sing ; Sand Martin - 140 - #NAME? ; Swallow - 2 ; Wren - 17 - 16sing ; Dunnock - 18 - 16sing ; Robin - 3 - 11sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 8 - 4sing ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - sing ; Great Tit - 5 - sing ; Blue Tit - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - sing ; Yellowhammer - 8 - 5sing ; Scaup - 1 - m

Ughill: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk .

Ughill Moors: Canada Goose - 2 - pair grazing at moorland fringe . ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - males back on territory . ; 319 - 1 - sat on wall . ; Curlew - 3 - calling over moorside . ; Pheasant - 3 - including 1 stunning pure white male .

Whiston; West Bawtry Road: Swallow - 1 - low over road to N

Wickersley: Swallow - 1 - heading north

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 3

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 6 - in the air together at 1030 ; 319 - 1 - Over woods 15.55 ; Woodcock - 1 - 1 heard at 2030

Chesterfield centre: 319 - 1 - Over Chesterfield Station

Dore: 319 - 1 - Circling above Dore/Totley area

Dore Station: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - h

Dronfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male perched in garden

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 2 - m+f on lower pond at 16:45

Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 1 female drumming on dead tree approximately 200 yards below Charles Ashmore Road car park.

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 60+ - roosted ; Curlew - 26 - roosted ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 28 - only 3 roosted ; 319 - 2 ; Goosander - 2 - redheads ; Coot - 6 ; Canada Goose - 3 ; Raven - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 0 - not a single bird tonight. ; Shelduck - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1

Millhouses: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Overhead towards trees at Carterknowle

Moss Valley: Yellowhammer - 2 - In hedgerow on edge of woodland ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; 321 - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goosander - 13 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3

R Don Penistone Rd Nth: Grey Wagtail - 2

R Sheaf, Heeley: Sand Martin - 2

Rivelin Valley: Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing close to observers garden ; 319 - 2 - Calling above Tofts Lane

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 47 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - circled left ne