Sightings Archive

Tuesday 7th March 2023

• Gleedless Common: Dunnock - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Great Tit - 1 ; House Sparrow - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - feeding on grass ; Starling - 3 - feeding on grassland
• Graves Park: Cormorant - 1 - Briefly over ponds then off to NE at 10:05 ; Goosander - 1 - actively going for bread, narrowly losing out to BHGulls.
• Green Moor: Stonechat - 1 - Male ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Fieldfare - 22 ; Stock Dove - 25 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 10+
• Heeley Millenium Park: Redwing - c6 ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Jaunty Park: Magpie - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Feral Pigeon - 10+ ; Collared Dove - 1+ - singing from scrub near back gardens ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Wren - 1
• Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - c12 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2
• Middleton Moor: Grey Heron - 2 - adults arrived at dusk ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35 - c. roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 30 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 40 - c. roosted ; Curlew - 133 - roosted ; Lapwing - 115 - c. roosted ; Oystercatcher - 2 - roosted ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Magpie - 18 - roosted ; Jackdaw - 150 - c.
• Orgreave Lakes: Goldcrest - 20+ ; Goldcrest - 20+ - second picture ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Gadwall - 20+ ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Wigeon - 5 ; Goosander - 5 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Raven - 3 - 2 + 1 involved in a territorial dispute ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w in pre roost for 20 mins ; Black-headed Gull - c150 - also adult BHG x Med Gull hybrid ; Herring Gull - c120 - inc northern adult with restricted black in wingtips
• Poolsbrook Marsh: Mute Swan - 2 ; Gadwall - 5 - inc pair in courtship display ; Coot - 3 - inc territorial dispute ; Reed Bunting - 2 - males singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - calling from opposite ends of "signal box" pool ; Greylag Goose - 14 - in fields ; Willow Tit - 1 - male singing in willows at back of "signal box" pool ; Jay - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2
• R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 1 - female ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goosander - 5 - 4 redhead (3 2cy males) and a pair
• R Don, Newhall Road: Kingfisher - 1 - male
• R Don, Stevenson Road: Dipper - 1 - singing unringed bird
• Redmires Bottom Res: Oystercatcher - 12
• Richmond Heights: Goldfinch - 2 ; Robin - 4 ; Magpie - 6 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 - all singing males with two close together singing against each other ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Great Tit - 1
• Richmond Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 - feeding on grassland ; Woodpigeon - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 4+ ; Magpie - 3
• RVCP: Cormorant - 32 ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 8+ - Lots or aerial display
• Shirebrook disused tip: Blue Tit - 8 ; Robin - 4 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - a pair ; Goldfinch - 2+ ; Magpie - 4 - two pairs ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female briefly in aerial tussle with Kestrel and hunting overhead ; Kestrel - 1 - later seen hinting over Richmond Park - told by missing tail feathers, maybe from previous tussle with Sparrowhawk. ; Blackbird - 2