Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - Ad

Totley Moor: Black Redstart - 1 - on main path from Stoney Ridge Rd, then flew towards airshaft ; Black Redstart - 1 - At Totley Moor this morning at 8.30am, losing a tail feather ; Black Redstart - 1 - Another photo ; Black Redstart - 1 - feeding by path this morning and took several flights across the moor before circling back ; Stonechat - 2 - males ; Raven - 1 ; Red Grouse - 2 - near tunnel ventilation shaft ; Jackdaw - 6 - over SE

Wadsley Common garden: Lesser Redpoll - 7 - on ground seed ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 - through garden ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - associating with tit flock ; Chaffinch - 6 - on ground seed-good number for here. ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 6 ; Goldfinch - 30 - settled on willow ; Stock Dove - 1

Barnside Moor: Woodcock - 1 - dusk

Chatsworth Park: Brambling - 30 - Feeding on beechmast ; Redwing - 40 - Feeding amongst leaf litter

Ecclesall Road South: Blackcap - 1 - male on apple tree near.garden bird feeder

Green Moor: House Sparrow - 25+ ; Tree Sparrow - 12+ - to feeders

Hangingwater garden: Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - m ; Starling - 1 - at feeders. First seen for at least 4 years

Midhope Res: Pink-footed Goose - c70 - E at 15:40

Orgreave Lakes: Raven - 2 - Pair north at midday

Ramsley Res: Brambling - 4+ - at least 4 (2m, 2f); 3 in same scope shot ; Siskin - 2+ ; Coal Tit - 01-Feb ; Goldfinch - 2+ ; Greenfinch - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over, calling

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - 65 ; Mallard - 94 ; 320 - 8

Silverwood Lagoon: Mallard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Siskin - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 10 ; Jay - 3 ; Rook - 5 - in fields to west ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Canada Goose - 32 ; Greylag Goose - 64

Totley Moor: Black Redstart - 1 - On the grassy mound around the Totley Tunnel air shaft. Associating with a Stonechat

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 2 - Male and female at bird feeders

Barbrook Valley: Stonechat - 2

Baslow: Whooper Swan - 1+ - N W at 5.50pm calling

Beauchief Golf Course: 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Bray Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 59

Greystones: Blackcap - 1 - Observer's Garden - Male

Jordanthorpe: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting along the verge on the eastern side of the Jordanthorpe Parkway at 17.40.

Killamarsh: Peregrine - 1 - male flew from Killamarsh towards Halfway

Killamarsh Meadows: Grey Partridge - 2 - par at dusk

Leash Fen: Raven - 2

Malin Bridge: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - over W calling at 18:13

Parkgate; Retail World: Sparrowhawk - 1 - unsuccessfully hunting Starlings ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy

Pebley Pond: Little Egret - 1 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - c7 ; Mallard - c22

R Derwent, Calver to Froggatt: Mandarin - 19 - 10m & 9f ; Siskin - 15+ - feeding in alders ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 - with Blue, Great and Coal Tits ; Jay - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Blue Tit - 10+

Ramsley Res: Brambling - 6 ; Snipe - 3

Redmires Bottom Res: Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; 319 - 1

Redmires conduit: Kestrel - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 1 - With lapwing on shoreline, then flew out to the north 0940. ; 320 - 5 ; Lapwing - 65+ ; Stonechat - 1

Scholes Coppice: Kestrel - 1 - female hunting along SW edge ; Blue Tit - 5+