Sightings Archive

R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Mallard - 7 - all drakes ; Cormorant - 1 ; 320 - 1pr ; Carrion Crow - 1pr - occupied nest in top of riverside tree

Ramsley Moor: Brambling - 1 - with 2 chaffinch ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 5

Renishaw Lake: Cormorant - 3 - in trees by lake ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Canada Goose - c41 ; Greylag Goose - c5 ; Coot - 20 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Tufted Duck - c17 ; Hirundine - 7+ - inc at least 2 Swallows & 1 Sand Martin

Renishaw Park: Coal Tit - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - heard ; Nuthatch - 1

Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Wheatear - 3 ; Stonechat - 2 - both males ; Little Owl - 1

Roundwood Ponds: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing (heard from Thrybergh tip)

RVCP: Little Egret - 5 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 2 - The long staying bird plus the one released by swan rescue ; 320 - 14 ; Goldeneye - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 30

Spinkhill: Skylark - 1 ; 321 - 1 - over

Spinkhill area: Kestrel - 1

Stannington, west: Skylark - 1 - Singing over pasture ; Swallow - 1

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 5 - 4m; 1f ; Canada Goose - 11 ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Mute Swan - 26 ; Gadwall - 2 - drakes ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Sand Martin - c30 - over water @ 0900hrs ; Sand Martin - 50 ; Swallow - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Greenfinch - 1 - Singing

Thrybergh Tip: Chiffchaff - 16 - inc 15 singing ; Blackcap - 7 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 02-Mar - singing ; Pochard - 7 - 5m; 2f ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 11 - 6m; 5f ; Water Rail - 1 - 'sharming' ; Great Crested Grebe - 03-Apr - probably 2 territorial pairs ; Coot - 12+ ; Greylag Goose - 13 - typically noisy! Probably breeding ; Shoveler - 2 - drakes ; Mute Swan - 1pr - with nest; male very aggressive ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on pylon ; Stock Dove - 2 - over ; 320 - 1pr - dropped in ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Treecreeper - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Mallard - 4 - 3m; 1f ; Gadwall - 6 - 4m; 2f

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Jay - 2

Bolsterstone: Skylark - 5 - Singing ; Red Grouse - 5 ; Curlew - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing

Bramall Lane: Common Buzzard - 4 - 4 in the air together at 1245

Burbage Brook: Stonechat - 1 - male ; 319 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4+

Canklow Woods: Willow Warbler - 1 - 1 singing v late in this year

Clod Hall Moor: Tree Pipit - 1

Cressbrook Dale: Wheatear - 2 - m+f ; Mandarin - 3 - 2m+f

Dukes Road: Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 3cy low up the valley

Ecclesall Woods: Grey Heron - 2 - In trees near last year's nest sites