Sightings Archive

Rud Hill: Starling - 100 - with Lapwings ; Curlew - 3 - with Lapwings ; Golden Plover - 180 - mobile flock ; Raven - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - Adults S - first movement of the year

Rud Hill/Brown Edge Farm: Fieldfare - c8 - in tree ; Redwing - 20+ - in treetops with starlings ; Starling - 50+ - flock ; Dunnock - 1 - singing male ; 319 - 1 - soaring overhad ; Golden Plover - 100 - 200 - flock flying - landed to rest in rushy pasture on Rud Hill ; Lapwing - c6 - in field and briefly displaying and calling ; Skylark - 8+ - 6 feeding in sheep field by farm and 2+ others singing and displaying from rough pasture on Rud Hill ; Carrion Crow - 2 - on ground ; Linnet - 4+ - perched in treetops

RVCP, Main Lake: Curlew - 1

Silver Wood: Yellowhammer - 3 - 1 singing behind Silverwood Test Centre, 1 singing on Pingle Lane Tip, 1 singing in hedgerow between woods and Old Ravenfield ; Fieldfare - 5 - in field near SW corner of woods ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - 1 singing near r/way line pond, singles singing in woods either side of Hollings Lane ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 - pair displaying over fields between woods and Pingle Lane Tip ; Skylark - 6+ - 2 singing ; Moorhen - 2 - pair on Woodlaithes duckpond ; Chaffinch - 3 - singing ; Greenfinch - 2 - singing in gardens to south of woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Whooper Swan - 1+ - heard to east at 08.35. Probably going north ; Little Grebe - 03-Apr - lots of 'trilling' ; Snipe - 1 - in southern seedbed ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 2 singing ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over ; Greylag Goose - 2 - west ; Rook - 4 - east ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing

Smithy Wood Business Park: Snipe - 3

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 62 ; Whooper Swan - 23 - North 0850 ; Water Rail - 1

Thrybergh Tip: Song Thrush - 5 - 2 (SK4695; 3 (SK4696), all singing ; Stock Dove - 3 - Thrybergh Bridge; song/aerial display ; Canada Goose - 7 - SW ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 9 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - inc colour ringed bird 324Y (red) ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Shoveler - 19 - 5prs + 9 drakes in various plumage stages ; Reed Bunting - 2 - 1 (SK4596); 1 (SK4696), both singing ; Gadwall - 9+ ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Mallard - 9 - 4prs + 1m ; Moorhen - 4 ; 320 - 8 - 6m; 2f ; Grey Heron - 1 - NE ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Coot - 12 ; Cormorant - 1 - on river ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing infrequently ; Siskin - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Thrybergh; St Leonard*s Church: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - one singing

Walkworth Wood: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 2 - feeding on ground near Holly ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 1+ - in from farm field

Blacka Plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 4 ; Skylark - 7

Bowden Housteads Wood: Sparrowhawk - 2 - displaying pair.

Dale Dike Res: Oystercatcher - 7 - flying and in fields. ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Greylag Goose - 12

Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - winter plumaged bird. ; Cormorant - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - displaying

Derwent Edge: Red Kite - 1 - Over Back Tor then drifted N.

Ecclesall Woods: Grey Heron - 7+ - Back on territory. Much calling, interaction and carrying twigs to nest platforms. ; Stock Dove - 4+ - Two singing

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 - Asleep at side of main Res. ; 319 - 1 - Sat on set aside field hedge. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Skylark - 3+ - Singing

Forge Dam: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - in trees S of playground mid-afternoon

Handsworth: Goosander - 2 - 1pair flying towards Orgreave at 16.40 was a nice addition to the house list.

Langsett Res: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Goldeneye - 1 - male, frequently diving

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - c15 - Territorial behaviour ; Curlew - 4