Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Kingfisher - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaff. ; Woodpigeon - 150 - in fields ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 33 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Fieldfare - 1 - past e ; Great Tit - 14 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Lesser Redpoll - 16 - past sw ; Bullfinch - 16 - 4-2-3-2-5

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 12 - on pylons @ 1130hrs

Dore; Causeway Head Road: Waxwing - 52+ - at least 52, possibly up to 60 by Co-op Travel @ 0800hrs

Firsby Res: 320 - 2 - In front of reed bed large Res. ; 319 - 1 - Perched above path far end of small Res. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Caught Blackbird in hedge bottom but it escaped. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing @ dawn.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 5 - visiting feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; 319 - 1 - over E ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female circling ; Siskin - 1 - male at feeders and singing from treetops ; Redwing - 1 - feeding in leaf litter ; Tawny Owl - 2 - calling against each other from same tree at dusk

Graves Park: Carrion Crow - c 62

Longshaw: Brambling - c35 - 2 small flocks c15 each between lodge and pond. 5 under feeders. ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 - All on the suet ball feeder at the same time ; Siskin - 4 - 3 m 1 f ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Coal Tit - 4

Norton Lees garden: Goldcrest - 1

Orgreave Lakes: BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1

Pit-house West: BITTERN - 1 - climbed up reeds for 5 mins at 17:20 before dropping back down, Bittern Pool. ; Woodcock - 2 - over A57 end late dusk ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling only, Bittern Pool ; Willow Tit - 2 - Chinese Bridge ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling ; Water Rail - 3+ - vocal and very flighty at dusk

Shirebrook Valley: Stock Dove - 13 - Usual 'few' feeding on Linley Bank Meadows. ; Common Buzzard - 2 - Soaring over about 50ft.

Stubley Hollow: Bullfinch - 8 - ; Little Owl - 1 ; Buzzard 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Blackbird - 30

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 16 ; Gadwall - 3 - mmf ; Pochard - 5 - 3m2f ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Goldeneye - 2 - mf ; 319 - 4 - inc.2soaring in e joined by 2 in from w lot of calling /disp. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 16 ; Lapwing - 70+ - in 2 flocks ; Black-headed Gull - 350+ - inc. 150+ south in 10mins ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 550+ - inc.150+400+ ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Skylark - 11 - 4sing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 21 - 3sing ; Robin - 35 - 16sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 21 ; Great Tit - 14 - 2sing ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 02-Apr ; Bullfinch - 15 - 4-3-2-2-4 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 7

Woodseats: Raven - 3 - flew SW at low level at 11:55

Wragg House Plantation: Crossbill - 2+ - calling in tops of conifers

Bannerdale Centre/Abbeydale Grange: Waxwing - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 ; Redwing - c.80 ; Redwing - c.80 ; Redwing - c.80 ; Redwing - c.80 ; Stock Dove - 10 - including song, display, and territorial dispute ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female

Beauchief Abbey Ponds: 320 - 2 - pair heard

Burngreave: Waxwing - 186 - In trees on the green, left towards town at 09:20 ; Waxwing - 150+ - On the green. Some even flycatching in the sun at 13:00.

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 12 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Dore: Waxwing - 26 - stripping berry bush just by Coop Travel, Causeway Head Rd at 13:10

Firsby Res: Stock Dove - c25 - In one flock feeding on newly sown field. ; Rook - 300+ - Same field as Stock Doves. ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Goldcrest - 5 ; Bullfinch - c12 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male.

Hillsborough: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair observed feeding in car park at rear Shakey pub, birds probably from the weir area.

Onesmoor: Golden Plover - c300 - circling over rape field

Orgreave Lakes: BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 - still present with Greylags 9:15am.

Peat Pits: Starling - c400 - in surrounding fields.