Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Herring Gull - 9 - Various ages over together early morning. ; Jay - 2 - Calling in willows. ; Skylark - 2 - Singing. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - On farmland. ; Linnet - 4 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 4+ - Singing. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - male at feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - male at feeders ; Siskin - 1 - male at feeders ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - took adult Woodpigeon and fed for 20 minutes

Graves Park: Goosander - 2 - Redheads on Boating Lake ; Greylag Goose - 5 - On Boating Lake (all wing feathers intact) ; Canada Goose - 7 - On Boating Lake

Meadow Bank: Common Buzzard - 1 - drifted SE @ 1035hrs

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 1 - Drake ; Common Gull - 101 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 16 ; Black-headed Gull - 8 ; Coot - 3 ; Lapwing - 23 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male

Norton Lees: 324 - 1 - Comma butterfly in observer’s garden

Pit-house West: Little Grebe - 1 - trilling ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Willow Tit - 1 - singing male

Rivelin Valley: Jay - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing in 3 separate locations along the river

Rockingham Wood: Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 2 - regulars on jet ski lake ; Goldeneye - 4 - Meadowgate Lake ; Little Egret - 7 - Meadowgate Lake island ; Sand Martin - 4 - Main Lake

Rud Hill: Golden Plover - 2 - 2 over calling ; Fieldfare - c80 - mobile flock moving east

RVCP: Sand Martin - 20 ; Swallow - 1 - in the Sand Martin flock

Shepherd*s Plantation: Robin - 2+ - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing, 1 S end, 1 NE edge

Sothall: Redwing - 5 - nocmig recorded over garden ; Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig recorded over garden 2221hr

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Singing

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 33 ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Gadwall - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 10+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c350 ; Common Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 16 ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Kestrel - 1M ; 319 - 2

Barlow Common: Wheatear - 2 - 2 m, showing well in field ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Skylark - 8 - max including at least 5 separate birds ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Linnet - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Blackburn Brook, Ecclesfield: 319 - 1

Bolehill Flash: Pheasant - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1

Bowden Housteads Wood: 319 - 2 - Pair displaying.

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Low over Barrett Estate trying to find thermals 10 30 -11.00

Burbage Edge: Red Kite - 1 - high over north at 11:10

Chapeltown Park: Nuthatch - 1 - Calling loudly and preening. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair on river from footbridge.

Damflask Res: Oystercatcher - 1 - on overflow

Ecclesfield, Trans-Pennine Trail: Kestrel - 1 - Male hovering.

Fulwood garden: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - different bird to yesterday ; Brambling - 2 - m and f ; Siskin - 1 - male ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - female ; 319 - 1 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - mobbing Buzzard ; Blackbird - 2 - singing ; Starling - 18 - several singing

Handsworth: Greenfinch - 8 - Om garden feeders

High Hazels Park: 319 - 1 - Over harassed by two gulls

Howden Res: Goshawk - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1 - through N