Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Grey Wagtail - 1 - dep. n ; Wren - 10 - sing ; Dunnock - 18 ; Robin - 10 ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Bullfinch - 9 - 2-2-2-3=6m-3f ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 4 - 1sing ; Scaup - 2 - m ; Scaup - 2 - m

Agden Rocher: Red Kite - 1 - circling Agden Rocher before drifting towards Peat Pits at c11:20

Blackburn Meadows NR: Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Mallard - 8 ; Gadwall - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; 320 - 11 ; 321 - 2 ; Bullfinch - 8 - Four pairs. ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Robin - 3 - Singing ; Dunnock - 2 ; Wren - 3 - 2 Singing, 1 alarm call. ; Great Tit - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 10+

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 in the airtogether at 1300

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 3 - ad pr + 1 imm ; Gadwall - 7+ ; 320 - 1+ ; Pochard - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 10+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Moorhen - 2+ ; Coot - 12+

Greave*s Piece: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - Take farm track east 400yds and look north

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female plucking and eating a pigegon on garden hedge. ; Waxwing - 34 - also feeding on neighbour's red berries. several visits. ; Waxwing - 34 - 2nd photo ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Heeley and Meersbrook Allotments: Waxwing - 14 - flew west at 16:15

Intake: House Sparrow - 35+ - Mainly juvs feeding in observers garden ; House Sparrow - at least 40 - In observers garden.

Meadowhall: Cormorant - 2 - perched, preening on highest structure at Meadowhall

Meadowhall Retail Park Car Park: Starling - 1 - mimicking skylark

Norfolk bridge,leveson street: Goosander - 1 - Female

Norton Lees: Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 6+ ; Siskin - 2 - first this year here ; Pheasant - 1 male - In observer's garden - a first! Feeding on the ground & on the bird table

Orgreave Lakes: Shoveler - 1 - Male, in at 0650. ; Shelduck - 4 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c85 - inc 24 2cy birds ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2 cy still present & very vocal this morning ; Mallard - c30 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2 cy ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Canada Goose - 2

R Don, Effingham St: Iceland Gull - 1 - 2w still, few large gulls in the area. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Cormorant - 1 - circling then E ; Iceland Gull - 1 ; Iceland Gull - 1 ; Iceland Gull - 1 ; Iceland Gull - 1

Rivelin Valley: Curlew - 22 - In fields west of Rails Rd at 1430

Shirebrook Valley: Peregrine - 1 - Flew south at 10.40 ; Willow Tit - 1

Stocksbridge: Little Egret - 1 - flew west at 08:40

Walkley: Goldcrest - 1 - singing in ornamental conifers behind ASDA

Wyming Brook: Dipper - 1 ; Raven - 1 - flying west

Abbeydale Golf Course: 319 - 2 - drifting over ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Banner Cross: Tawny Owl - 2 - 2 calling 0330

Blackburn Meadows NR: 320 - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling from Ferham Lake ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 6

Bolsterstone: Curlew - 2 - in field to west of Walders Low ; Lapwing - 1 - in field to west of Walders Low ; Yellowhammer - 4+ - around Cote House, off Sunny Bank Road

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 1 drumming

Burngreave: Sparrowhawk - 3 - displaying overhead.

Centenary Riverside: Mute Swan - 4 - Pair on pond, showing aggression to a pair of Canada geese.1 pair flew over.07.30

Cowell Flat: Red Kite - 1 - drifted west at c14:45

Deepcar: Lapwing - 1 - in field off Hollin Busk Lane

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - lower lake ; Dipper - 1 - By Hunters Bar

Ewden Valley: Willow Tit - 1 - Singing male

Greystones garden: Waxwing - 8 - Blue (upper) ring & Yellow (lower) rings on left leg ; Goldcrest - 1