Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Moorhen - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c.150 ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 ; Pheasant - 20+ - lots of calling at dawn

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Wigeon - 3m/f ; Gadwall - 21 ; Tufted Duck - 55 ; Pochard - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Brambling - 16 - At pond field feeders ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Greenfinch - 12 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Kestrel - 1 - male

Totley Moor: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - Male still feeding on sedge seeds either on track just E of the tunnel chimney or on the moor north of the track SK279794. ; Pink-footed Goose - 95 - over low E at 12:28 ; SNOW BUNTING - 1 - Many already know but it is on the Moss Road Track along Totley Moor. I saw it at the section of the main track between where the path from the Trig point intersects and the path off to the Tunnel shaft track.

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - hunting along edge of Raspberry Plantation ; Magpie - 4 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 10+

Baslow: Nuthatch - 1 - Singing

Brecks, Rotherham: Pink-footed Goose - 80+ - flew SE at 10.35.

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 59

Eyam Moor: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Wren - 3+ ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 - 3 males

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Herring Gull - 4 - over together. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Siskin - 8+ - Small groups over calling. ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Down on farmland. ; Redwing - 5+ - With Fieldfare ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Linnet - 3+ - Over calling. ; Goldfinch - 30+

Flanderwell: Pink-footed Goose - c50 - Flew low north-west at 11:50

Fulwood: Starling - 1 - Singing on Moorcroft Rd

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 2 - Males together in observer's garden

Hangingwater Road Allotments: Blackcap - 1 - male

Ladybower Res: Dipper - 1 - 1 at bottom of Grainfoot clough. ; Treecreeper - 1

Markham Vale: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling from reedbed ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - in reedbed ; Herring Gull - 50 - flew south ; Great Black-backed Gull - 20 - flew south ; Snipe - 1 - flushed from marsh ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Redwing - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 7 ; Lapwing - 211 ; Herring Gull - 17 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Common Gull - 9 ; Redwing - 90+ - On sheep pasture

Poolsbrook CP: Goosander - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 - c. ; Herring Gull - 40 - c. ; Common Gull - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1

Poolsbrook Marsh: Gadwall - 5 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - male calling ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling behind main pool ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Cormorant - 4 - on pylons ; Fieldfare - 15 - flew south ; Herring Gull - 180 - drifted south ; Great Black-backed Gull - 60 - drifted south

Ravenfield Church: Nuthatch - 2 - Pair flew from woodland into Fir tree in Church yard.

Rawmarsh: Pink-footed Goose - 34 - low to W @ 1035hrs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - NW @ 1225hrs ; Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling briefly around 2305hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - passed very low over house heading W @ 1510hrs (heard from indoors)

Redmires Bottom Res: Cormorant - 1 - Flying NE at 11:05; same or another at 12-59 heading NE again.