Sightings Archive

RVCP: Herring Gull - 110

Shepherd*s Plantation: Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 1pr ; Wheatear - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - heard ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 9 - singing birds now widespread around pit top ; Grey Heron - 1 - over ; Fieldfare - 12 ; Little Grebe - 6 - trilling

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Sand Martin - c50 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 40+ ; Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Attacked and killed by the Male Mute Swan as it strayed near the nest. Corpse visible in Reed Bed. ; Little Ringed Plover - 1

Upperdale: Dipper - 1 - Upstream of bridge

Walkley garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - In fruit trees and using bird bath.

Worrall: Lesser Redpoll - 2 - Pair in garden. M on feeder

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 7

Hangingwater garden: Blackbird - 1 - f carrying an A5 sheet of paper into a hedge ; Blackcap - 1 - m singing, but for shorter periods than over past 4 days

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Woodcock - 1

Midhope area: 324 - 1 - Weasel ; Curlew - 10 ; Fieldfare - c40 ; Redwing - c30

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 2 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Lapwing - 20 - c. ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing males ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - c. flew N ; Fieldfare - 40 - c. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - female flew low the SW - scarce here and my first for 3 years

RVCP: Redwing - 98 ; Goldeneye - 13 ; Oystercatcher - 5

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 52 ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Gadwall - 4 ; Sand Martin - 200+ ; House Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - One on front ; Ringed Plover - 1 - One flew north 10:05 ; Lapwing - 10 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ - Birds building up all morning ; Pied Wagtail - 20+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Herring Gull - 14 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Fieldfare - 80+

Waterthorpe: Chiffchaff - 1 - In observers garden for several hours feeding and resting in Acer tree.

Wharncliffe Chase: Barn Owl - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Fieldfare - 22

Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; 319 - 1 - Calling

Brick Houses: Blackcap - 1 - singing

Canklow: 319 - 1 - Circling over Holiday Inn 13.10

Cartledge Bents: Red Kite - 1

Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Curlew - 10+ ; Lapwing - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 30+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+

Derwent Res: Whooper Swan - 24 ; Crossbill - 1 ; Siskin - 200+ ; Whooper Swan - 24 - On Res between 08:15-11:15 ; Crossbill - 1 - very dark juv type drinking from puddles ; Siskin - 200+ - Multiple flocks

Dore: Raven - 1 - Over low E cronking continually ; 319 - 1 - Over mewing ; Lapwing - 1 - Over calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring with Buzzards

Dore/Totley Bents: 319 - 6+ - minimum of 6 circulating around the area with much calling and displaying

Ecclesall Woods: 319 - 1 - over Limb Hill, Wood 3

Fulwood garden: Whooper Swan - 110 - single party headed low NNW calling 08:45: quite a sight (and sound!) ; Brambling - 6 - at feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 3