Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Reed Bunting - 6 - m 4sing ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 2sing

Totley Moor: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male on tunnel ventilation mound

Wadsley Common: Blackcap - 2 - 2 males on garden feeders. ; 319 - 1 - Circling over south side of common.

Wentworth Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - over to N ; Stock Dove - 2 - a pr displaying in likely nest tree ; Kestrel - 1 - f, left hole in traditional nesting tree ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2prs ; Linnet - 1pr ; Red-legged Partridge - 1pr ; Chaffinch - numerous ; Goldfinch - numerous ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Sparrowhawk - 1pr ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Nuthatch - 3 - 1pr + singing male ; Stock Dove - 1pr ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ - all moving N ; Little Owl - 1pr - in traditional nesting tree in horse paddock ; Jackdaw - numerous - prospecting birds in all suitable woodlands

Wentworth Park; Brookshank Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male

Wentworth Park; Cinder Bridge Plantn: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Grey Heron - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 23 - 15m; 8f ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 - displaying ; Canada Goose - 9 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 13 ; Mallard - 10 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing male, N shore ; Reed Bunting - 1 - f, S shore ; Greylag Goose - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Kingfisher - 2

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Mallard - 38 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 - 4prs, one with nest ; Reed Bunting - 1 - N shore ; Coot - 9 - inc 2 occupied nests ; Canada Goose - 16 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Dam Head ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Dam Head ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing male, Dam Head ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male, Dam Head

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 - inc singing male ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Kingfisher - 1 - male, on stream ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Grey Wagtail - 1pr ; Mallard - 50-60 ; Greylag Goose - c40 ; Canada Goose - 7 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2prs ; Coot - 5+ ; Pochard - 1 - drake ; Pochard - 1 - drake ; Moorhen - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing male, S shore ; Lapwing - 2+

Alport Castles: Curlew - 1 - Calling

Attercliffe: Kingfisher - 2 - Near Stevenson Road bridge, one feeding fish to other on perching branch. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing in silver birches, near Stevenson Road bridge.

Bowden Housteads Wood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2

Brightholmlee: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Woodcock - 2 - Roding ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 8 - 3 males, 5 females roosting on reservoir ; Woodcock - 3 - Roding

Bubnell: Wigeon - 1 - male on riverside marsh ; 320 - 2 - pair

Cressbrook: Chiffchaff - 1

Cressbrook Dale: Kestrel - 1

Damflask Res: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling audible from dam wall.

Derwent Edge: Whooper Swan - 35 - NW over Back Tor at 08:10

Dronfield: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - in garden ; Brambling - 1 - male in garden

Edge Mount: Reed Bunting - 2 - m + f in silver birch . ; Wheatear - 1 - sat on dry stone wall .

Firsby Res: Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 - Circled ; Lapwing - 1 - on ploughed field. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flew from rough grassland. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Chaffinch - 5 - Males singing. ; Linnet - 10+ ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Both Males. ; Skylark - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Appeared to be taking nesting material into cavity in tree trunk.