Sightings Archive

RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 4 ; Common Gull - 14 - slight influx!

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 1 - no replacement male established yet, but resident female did a pretty good job of seeing off a pair of Canada Geese

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 30 ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 18 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c200 ; Common Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 24 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

Beauchief: Blackcap - 1 - On garden feeder

Chatsworth Park: Raven - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 3

Damflask Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - flew down Loxley valley

Fulwood garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing this morning

Gulling Wood: Goldcrest - 2 - a pair - male singing , female feeding

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 2 - m & f ; Blackbird - 3 - 2m & 1f ; Chaffinch - 4 - 2m & 2f ; Greenfinch - 2 - m & f ; Greenfinch - 2 - another photo ; Robin - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Wren - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - c4000 - Roosting 17.45

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - c10 - Much calling ; Lapwing - 40+ - Spread out across area

Midhope Hall Lane: Curlew - c120 - Feeding in light rain 16.45 ; Barn Owl - 1 - 16.5

Midhope Res: Goldeneye - 1 - Male ; Oystercatcher - 2 - a pair ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 3 males, 2 females

Norfolk Park: Jackdaw - 1 - At one of the tram line street lights in Park Grange Rd. being prevented from entering its nest site or potential nest site inside light fitting by 3 mobbing crows.

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 4 - feeding over large lake at 10:00 ; Redshank - 2 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Skylark - 12 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Sand Martin - 11 - at least late afternoon/ early evening; mostly moving through N ; Goldeneye - 6 - 3m, 3f; some display ; Goosander - 32 - apparently pre-roost gathering ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 15 - including singing male ; Pochard - 16 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Skylark - 8 - including several singing ; Gadwall - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 25 ; Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; 320 - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 10

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 150+

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - E over Lane Head @ 0910hrs

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 65 - c. in fields ; Greylag Goose - 60 - c. in fields ; Mallard - 30 - c. ; Moorhen - 1 - in road around Top Res ; Herring Gull - 1 - 1W on Top Res ; Lapwing - 20 - c. in fields ; Oystercatcher - 2 - in fields ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - on Bottom Res ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - on Bottom Res ; Reed Bunting - 4 - around Bottom Res ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - c. around Bottom Res ; Siskin - 3 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair on Top Res

RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 4

Silverwood Lagoon: BITTERN - 1 - boomed in northern reedbed at 08.00 and again five minutes later but not heard again by 09.15

Silverwood Pit Top: Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Thrybergh CP: 320 - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 38 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 10 ; Sand Martin - 1

Totley Rise: Siskin - 1 - Male on garden feeders

Ughill: Meadow Pipit - 100+ - Large flock in fields off Wet Shaw Lane

Ughill Moors: Curlew - 8 - feeding in field

Blackburn Meadows NR: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling.

Centenary Riverside: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2prs ; Wren - 2 - 1+1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goosander - 2 - a pair on R Don

Dore: Barn Owl - 1

Ecclesall: Brambling - 4 - appeared in garden on Ansell Road after snow shower - my first here for two years

Endcliffe Student Village: Moorhen - 2 - One incubating on floating island in pond.

Green Moor: Brambling - 1 - Female in garden