Sightings Archive

Friday 18th March 2022

• Barnside Farm: Curlew - 47 - 16.30 Bathing in a flash in field, then all dispersed locally ; Snipe - 1 - chipping
• Brightside: Blackbird - 1 - Female flew across Hawke Street carrying food.
• Burbage Valley: Meadow Pipit - 5 - 1 parachuting ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males ; Stonechat - 3
• Chatsworth Park: Nuthatch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - daytime calling. ; Brambling - 10+ - Feeding under beeches ; Redwing - 4 - Under beeches with bramblings
• Don Canal; Eastwood Lock: Ringed Plover - 1 - over calling but not located
• Eastwood; Eldon Rd playing fields: Magpie - 9 - feeding together ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Black-headed Gull - 14 - feeding ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Redwing - c15 - in treetops
• Ecclesall: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling and flying, Marsh House Road at 20:05
• Ewden Height: Raven - 2 - Saw off a buzzard plus plenty of back of throat calls. ; Raven - 2 - Another pic ; 319 - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ - Parachute displays ; Lapwing - 30+ ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 2 - a pair prospecting nest site ; Curlew - 30+ - Constant background noise of birds calling in display, wonderful.
• Forge Dam: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4+ - 3 together around apparent nest hole and at least one more calling elsewhere
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - female ; Greylag Goose - 1 - over N ; 319 - 3 - much interaction and roller-coasting display ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring
• Green Moor: Fieldfare - 6 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Curlew - 1 - First one back on territory
• Greystones garden: Siskin - 1 - Male on feeders in observer's garden
• Hangingwater garden: Siskin - 1 - m. First for some years
• Howbrook Dam: Cormorant - 9 - On pylon by A61 7.15
• Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 2 - Calling at 05:35 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing this afternoon ; Siskin - 1 - male again on garden feeders.
• Intake: Common Buzzard - 4 - 4 up together
• Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting
• Killamarsh: Red Kite - 1 - Circling high overhead
• Kirk Edge: Yellowhammer - 2 - pair on wall near convent.
• Leash Fen: Stonechat - 1 ; Lapwing - 09-Oct ; Kestrel - 1
• Lodge Moor: Siskin - 1 - single male spent about 20 minutes at garden feeder
• Longshaw: Curlew - 1 - In field to west of A6187 ; Fieldfare - 1+ ; Redwing - 1+ ; 319 - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Brambling - 2 - On feeders ; Siskin - 1 - On feeders ; Mandarin - 2
• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Snipe - 3 - Chipping, display flights ; Lapwing - 30+
• Manor Fields Park: Common Buzzard - 3 - Circling high over at 15:50 drifting West ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting ; Song Thrush - 6 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Blackbird - 14 - 9 males ; Robin - 6+ - min 6 singing around park ; Moorhen - 4 - on top pond ; Mallard - 2 - pair on top pond
• Middlewood: Carrion Crow - 1 - nest sitting.
• Midhope Res: Whooper Swan - 1 - First seen 7.35 and still there 16.20. Possibly the bird that has now left Westwood CP at High Green? ; Curlew - 20+ - Regular commutes over res between Low Moor. ; Lapwing - 5 ; Song Thrush - 4+ - singing ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Greylag Goose - c70 ; Canada Goose - c60 ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 4 males, 2 females ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 1 ; 320 - 2 - a pair
• Onesmoor: Yellowhammer - 2 - pair on roadside verge. ; Fieldfare - 49+ - sat in tree tops in surrounding fields.
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling
• Parkwood Springs: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing for 2nd day by railway line off Oakham Drive.
• Peat Pits: Fieldfare - 119+ - feeding in surrounding fields.
• R Don, Eastwood: Kingfisher - 2 ; 320 - 5prs ; Gadwall - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Moorhen - 3 ; Mallard - 13 - 6prs + 1m ; Carrion Crow - 1pr - at nest ; Magpie - 1 - nestbuilding in Hawthorn ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - one singing
• Ramsley Res: Brambling - 4+ - around feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Siskin - 3