Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 200 ; 320 - 5 ; Common Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 400+

Middlewood: Goosander - 1 - male in flight heading south

Oaking Clough: Goldcrest - 1 - in bracken by wet flush

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st w at 10:00

Padley: 319 - 1

Redmires Middle Res: 320 - 15

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 44 ; Greylag Goose - 101 - in fields ; Black-headed Gull - 400 - c. roosted on Top Res ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 2 SW mid-morning + 1 roosted amongst BHGs ; Herring Gull - 6 - on Middle Res ; Lapwing - 40 - c. on Middle Res ; Mallard - 30 - c. ; 320 - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 - juvs ; Fieldfare - 60 - c. flew SW ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 200 - 150 S with 50 NE

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 620 - roosted ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult roosted ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7

Renishaw: Little Egret - 2 - in flooded field by Spinkhill Lane ; Pied Wagtail - 22 - in flooded field by Spinkhill Lane ; Grey Heron - 3 - flooded field by Spinkhill Lane

Rivelin Valley: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 0200 hrs near Tofts Lane ; Greenfinch - 1 - In observers garden at 09:00. A rare occurrence

Seymour Link Road: Snipe - 9 ; Jack Snipe - 8 ; Woodcock - 3

Silver Wood: Pink-footed Goose - c.500 - west in three skeins at 08:25

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - 230 - west at 09:30

Stanage Edge: Raven - 2 ; Peregrine - 1 - ad male flew N along Edge towards High Neb

Stanedge Pole: Fieldfare - 10 - settled briefly before continuing south ; Golden Plover - 1 - overhead

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 40 ; Gadwall - 16 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Linnet - 30

Thurcroft: Grey Heron - 1 - On neighbours roof. Stayed for about 5 minutes

Treeton: 319 - 16 - Total of 16 feeding on worms in fields along Wood Lane

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 19 - 10M, 9F.

Wales Common: Snipe - 7 ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Woodcock - 1

Wortley: Golden Plover - 23 - South ; 319 - 2 - Calling loudly ; Fieldfare - 50+ ; Redwing - 30+

Bole Edge Plantation: Crossbill - 4+ - noisy flock, heard only ; Brambling - 3 - flock of c80 finches over distant Beech wood also possibly this species.

Cinder Bridge Field: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - female, over from NW then circling before lost from view

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1

Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden on Ansell Road ; Fieldfare - 20 - c. paused briefly in garden on Ansell Road before heading south ; Redwing - 1 - in garden on Ansell Road

Holling Dale: Raven - 5

Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 9 - on Grey Hill

Lodge Moor garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male

Low Common: Kestrel - 1 - hovering near Dog Kennel

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 147 ; Golden Plover - 55 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 250+ - At 3.15 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Common Gull - 3 ; Herring Gull - 1 - Near adult ; Wigeon - 3 ; Starling - 14000+ - Roosting in No 3 reedbed. ; 320 - 15 - c. on No.4 lagoon ; Wigeon - 3 - on No. 4 lagoon ; Lapwing - 165 - c. on No. 4 lagoon ; Golden Plover - 230 - c. 230 left to the SW at dusk ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 950 - c. roosted on No. 4 lagoon ; Herring Gull - 10 - c. roosted amongst LBBs ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ads roosted with LBBS ; Black-headed Gull - 10 - c. ; Starling - 30000 - c. flew into roost from the south and west during the hour before dusk - no doubt an under-estimate ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling ; Snipe - 5 - c.

Millhouses Park: Grey Heron - 1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - flock ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - female over + 2 soaring, visible simultaneously ; Herring Gull - 9 - S/SW ; Black-headed Gull - c25 - flock, S/SW