Sightings Archive

Sunday 19th March 2023

• Barber Wood: Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling
• Brightholmlee: Chiffchaff - 2 - two singing ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunting, mobbed by carrion crow
• Carr House Meadows NR: Woodcock - 2 - flushed ; Barn Owl - 1
• Cowell Flat: Raven - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing
• Dalton: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Dalton Brook ; Black-headed Gull - 41 - feeding on sports field ; Common Buzzard - 2 - circling over, calling @ 0943hrs
• Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1
• Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Egyptian Goose - 1 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Herring Gull - 1
• Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring, Cross Hill
• Firsby Res: Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair prospecting for nest site. ; 319 - 1 ; Barn Owl - 1 - Early morning. ; Stock Dove - 1 - Near houses. ; Fieldfare - 40+ - Down on farmland. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Inc 1 Drumming. ; Little Grebe - 1 - Trilling. ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 5+ - Numerous singing Males. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Calling along stream. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male near houses. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male flew from top of hedge.
• Furnace Hill: Reed Bunting - 2 - a pair ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ - some displaying males, some in small flock feeding on dock seeds ; Red Grouse - 1 - alarmed by helecopter flying overhead ; Curlew - 2 - on probable pair on territory ; Lapwing - 12+ - 3 pairs apparently on breeding territory, upset by a flock of approx another 6 landing nearby ; Golden Plover - 2 - probably a pair on territory ; Skylark - 2+ - displaying males ; Greylag Goose - 2 - pair on fields ; Kestrel - 2 - hover hunting together
• Gleadless: Red Kite - 1 - Drifted south over Charnock Recreation Ground
• Grange Park Golf Course, Watson*s Tip: 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing
• Heeley City Farm: Redwing - c10 ; Nuthatch - 1 heard ; Song Thrush - 1 singing
• Holdworth: Little Owl - 2 - in derelict outbuilding at Haighenfield Farm.
• Hoyles Farm: Wheatear - 1 - perched on molehill, mobbed by Meadow Pipit ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing male plus 1
• Kennel Wood: Mallard - 2 - pair, up from pond ; Moorhen - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing and active on adjacent fairways
• Killamarsh: Little Egret - 3 - Feeding in a horse paddock just outside the park and in Derbyshire
• Loftshaw: Mallard - 6+ - 3 pairs ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Skylark - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ ; Snipe - 1 - chipping/flying display
• Lower Kennel Wood: Wren - 1 ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1+ - 1 singing ; Blue Tit - 1+
• Loxley Valley: Chiffchaff - 1
• Middleton Moor: Common Gull - 155 ; Black-headed Gull - 56 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 51 ; Herring Gull - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; 320 - 13 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Wigeon - 1 - Male ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Snipe - 9 ; Fieldfare - 10
• Morley Pond: Cormorant - 4 - at Cascades ; Greylag Goose - 1+ ; Canada Goose - 1+ ; Goosander - 2 - at Cascades
• Moss Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing at Robinbrook Lane
• Ockley Bottom: Robin - 1 - singing