Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Grey Heron - 1 - NW ; Jack Snipe - 1 - went up from underfoot near overflow pool below lagoon ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Siskin - 5 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.25 ; Goldfinch - 20

Wingfield School: Black-headed Gull - c30

Catcliffe Flash: Goosander - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 20+ ; Coot - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - c40

Dronfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female in obs garden

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Brambling - 1 - heard (possibly flying over); observer's first site record

Handsworth garden: Magpie - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 1 ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Dunnock - 3 ; House Sparrow - 15+ ; Greenfinch - 5 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Robin - 1

Hathersage: Brambling - 4

Malin Bridge: Pink-footed Goose - 20+ - At least two skeins heard at 18:30, 2 minutes apart. Sounded fairly low and going south.

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 6 - E over to Dog Kennel circling at E end. ; Mute Swan - 4 - resident pair into threat posture as Adult and juv attempted to land ; Mallard - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Jackdaw - c30 ; Goldfinch - 1+

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 6 - feeding alongside a similar number of Reed Bunting and a single Blue Tit south side smaller lake. ; Linnet - 50+ - south side smaller lake.

Summerley: Nuthatch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Sparrowhawk - 1 - out from gorse and shrubs,female, W low over field into Raspberry Plantation followed by 3 C.

Upperdale: Marsh Tit - 1 - On feeders by car park

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Goosander - 3 - Redheads

Whiston Meadows: Common Buzzard - 3

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - on Bernard Rd incinerator midday

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on observer's roof at one point ; Fieldfare - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - up to 3

Bolehill Flash: Bullfinch - 2 ; Redwing - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over site ; 321 - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - Over ; Cormorant - 2 - Over ; Moorhen - 2 ; Robin - 2 - 1 singing

Mayfield Valley: Corvid - 100+ - mostly Rook and Jackdaw (60+) ; Kestrel - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing briefly ; Pheasant - 8 - 4m & 4f

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 7 - 4 ads, 3 juvs arrived at 09:55. leaving to west at 10:30,

Moss Road, Totley: Sparrowhawk - 2 - Two males over frequently tussling. ; Redwing - c10 ; Willow Tit - 1 - One, orange ring on right leg, making frequent visits to the feeders

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 1

Pond Square: Feral Pigeon - 80

R Don, Effingham St: Feral Pigeon - 120 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Mallard - 30

R Sheaf, Millhouses: Dipper - 1 - Feeding Sheaf below Marriott Road.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 42 ; Goldeneye - 5 - inc 2 imm male ; Pochard - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 67 ; 320 - 2 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Coot - 72 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Lapwing - 80 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Song Thrush - 3