Sightings Archive

R Don, Effingham St: Mallard - 44 ; Goosander - 7 - 6 Females + 1 moulting male ; Goosander - 7 - another Photio ; Kingfisher - 3

R Rother, Orgreave: Goosander - 3 ; Goosander - 3 - second picture

Redmires Res: Mallard - 100 - c. ; 320 - 50 - c. on Middle Res - flushed by dog walker ; Lapwing - 60 - c. ; Golden Plover - 20 - c. over Middle Res ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - c. ; Woodpigeon - 1000 - c. flew SW in one hour ; Blackbird - 5 ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 - c. flew SW ; Fieldfare - 20 - flew SW ; Meadow Pipit - 8 - flew SW ; Reed Bunting - 2 - flew SW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Brambling - 1 - calling overhead

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 70+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - juv ; Jackdaw - 15+ ; Rook - 6+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+

RVCP, Main Lake: Red Kite - 1

Whiston Meadows: Sparrowhawk - 1

Wortley: Lapwing - c70 ; Redwing - 100+ - Roving birds ; Fieldfare - c40 ; Skylark - 1 ; 319 - 1

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w on roof Warren St ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult ; Chiffchaff - 1 - with tit flock Norfolk Bridge

Chapeltown: Starling - c40 - Single group WSW 09:40

Edge Mount: Woodpigeon - c120 - feeding in beech trees. ; Chaffinch - 2 - feeding on beech mast.

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - lower lake at 07:15

Fairholmes: Brambling - c50

Lodge Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 160 - A skein over Blackbrook Drive, heading SE at 09:50

Midhope Res: Redwing - 30+ - Small groups flying around area. ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Siskin - 1+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Fieldfare - 8 ; 319 - 1 ; Linnet - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Mallard - 48

Norton Lees: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling on the ‘green’ on Thorpe House Rise in the early hours

Onesmoor: Skylark - 11 - including 4 singing.

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 47 - feeding with starlings. ; Starling - 78 ; Golden Plover - 1 - calling overhead. ; Peregrine - 1 - made low pass over cereal fields but surprisingly didn't attempt to flush starlings / lapwings in horse field.

Redmires conduit: Goldcrest - 06-Oct - Tizzing around in beech trees and difficult to count

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 46 ; Greylag Goose - 18 ; Mallard - 50 - c. ; 320 - 20 - c. ; Lapwing - 25 - c. ; Kestrel - 2 - juvs ; Black-headed Gull - 20 - c. ; Woodpigeon - 150 - south ; Fieldfare - 60 - c. flew SW ; Redwing - 20 - c. flew SW ; Blackbird - 4 ; Goldcrest - 13 - around reservoir perimeter ; Chiffchaff - 1 - by Top Res - late for here ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Starling - 650 - c. flew W in 2 hrs

Rocher End Brook: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling repeatedly from trees along brook at midday

RVCP, Main Lake: Jackdaw - 700 - up to 700 roosting on the island during Nov and Dec

Silver Wood: Mistle Thrush - 3 - on wires behind Silverwood Test Centre

Barlow Common: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Redwing - c. 20

Dore: Pink-footed Goose - 85 - single skein moving NW at 08:18

Grindleford: Goosander - 3 - Male and two female ; Dipper - 3 ; Mandarin - 49

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 112 ; Golden Plover - 9 ; Wigeon - 1 ; 320 - 31

Millhouses: Pink-footed Goose - 32 - SE over Marriott Road@1140.

Monsal Dale: Long-tailed Tit - 12 - two parties of 6 each ; Cormorant - 1 - flying downstream ; Kestrel - 1 ; Rook - 10 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - over E ; Jackdaw - 12 - incl one-legged mendicant

Orgreave Lakes: 332 - 1 - Circled site at 12:30, then drifted high Over Catcliffe.

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 17 - in horse pasture ; Lapwing - 45 ; Stonechat - 2

Pit-house West: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Dropped towards Bittern Pond at 14:02, then left north 10 minutes later.

Ramsley Res: Jack Snipe - 2