Sightings Archive

Shepherd Wheel: Long-tailed Tit - 1

Silver Wood: Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 8

Silverwood Lagoon: Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 9 ; Sand Martin - 4

St Mary*s Cemetery Walkley: Song Thrush - 1 - one of two birds singing within cemetery, with another bird singing just outside the site.

Stanage: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Skylark - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - below stanage crag

Stocksbridge: Osprey - 1 - flew west at c12:45

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Mute Swan - 40 ; Egyptian Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 4 - 3m1f ; Tufted Duck - 44 - 24m20f ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - s ; Pheasant - 6 - m-call. ; Redshank - 1 - past nw ; Black-headed Gull - 110 ; Sand Martin - 80+ ; Wren - 20 - 19sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 9 - sing ; Siskin - 1 - past n ; Tufted Duck - 50 - at 16:00 ; Mallard hybrid - 1

Totley Rifle Range: Willow Tit - 2 - 2 territories confirmed

Agden Res: Waxwing - 9 - flew NW over res, landing in larch Windy Bank Wood 19:00

Broomhill: Coal Tit - 2 - Pair - one carrying nesting material on Rutland Park

Centenary Riverside: Sand Martin - 4

Crowhole: 319 - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Goldcrest - 01-Feb ; Nuthatch - 1

Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - still in wp ; Mandarin - 2 - pair

Edale barn before Clough Farm: Pied Wagtail - 1 - On barn roof ; Curlew - 50+ - Flock wheeling & calling over Edale valley ; Coal Tit - 1 - Inspecting barn wall

Hollin Bank: Treecreeper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 - investigating nest box ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - Leucistic /albino in Jubillee 2

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 7 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goldeneye - 1 - female ; Sand Martin - 32+ - 2,30+ ; Wheatear - 2 ; Sand Martin - c100 - over the lake in evening, also 130 Golden Plover circling

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Stock Dove - 1 - W ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Greylag Goose - 2 - E/NE @ 0739hrs ; Lapwing - 1 - W ; Grey Heron - 1 - W ; Redwing - 6 - S/SW ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - NE ; Linnet - 3 - SE ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male, flew into treetop from golf course; left W

R Don, Stevenson Road: Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Kestrel - 1

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male in evening

Rother Valley CP: Little Ringed Plover - 2 - Pair by the water sports centre this evening ; Redshank - 1 - By the water sports centre ; 319 - 6 - 3pairs displaying ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Pair displaying ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 8 - In song ; Blackcap - 5 - In song ; Goosander - 2 ; Shoveler - 4 ; Wigeon - 72 ; Tufted Duck - 20+ ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 6

Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 24 - feeding on fairway ; Pied Wagtail - 1pr - feeding on fairway ; Magpie - 9 ; Kestrel - 1pr - local breeding pair, circling over together

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 9 - ; Little Owl - 3 on separate territories ; Buzzard - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 56