Sightings Archive

Sunday 7th March 2021

• Dalton: Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - sat in treetop by sports field; left W ; Rook - 7-8prs - refurbishing nests on pylon arms
• Damflask Res: Common Gull - 10
• Elsecar Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c215 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Linnet - c150 ; Reed Bunting - 2
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 3 - 1 singing ; Cormorant - 1 - high to W/SW ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1 singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - singing over adjacent field ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - on adjacent field
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - In cow field. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling near houses at 17:00. ; Kestrel - 1 - Make hunting in set aside field. ; 319 - 1 - Over site calling. ; Jay - 2 - Commotion in willows. Cause unknown. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Coal Tit - 1 - Calling. ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ - In trees over sluice. ; Siskin - 1 - With Redpoll. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Linnet - 3 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male.
• Hathersage garden: Brambling - 1 - At feeding stations
• Kelham Island: Kingfisher - 2 - Courtship display and 'chasing'
• Ladybower: Red Kite - 1 - Soaring at low level next to A57 Sheffield side of Ladybower
• Lindley Bank Meadow: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Skylark - 1
• Longshaw: Woodcock - 1 - roding ; Treecreeper - 2 - inc one in full song
• Low Ash Farm Worrall: Common Gull - 2 - With rooks on pasture
• Loxley Common: Barn Owl - 1 - Mid Afternoon flying parallel to 4th fairway of Hillsborough Golf course.
• Malin Bridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - in gardens
• Mayfield Valley: 319 - 2
• Millhouses Lane garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - heard calling in the vicinity ; Siskin - 4 - two pairs visiting the sunflower hearts feeder
• Norwood Allotments: Raven - 1 - circled overhead for 10 minutes from 13:15, calling and climbing higher, then drifted away NW
• Old Ravenfield: Lapwing - 2 - Displaying over farmland next to garden Lane.
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Siskin - 1+ - over ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing
• Peat Pits: Linnet - c50 - feeding in fields ; Golden Plover - 300++ - large flock feeding/roosting in fields ; Fieldfare - c30
• Pringle Lane Tip: Lapwing - 3 - Displaying on farmland.
• R Don, Aldwarke: Cormorant - 12 - on pylons, inc 3 adults ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Kingfisher - 1 - calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr - brief song ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2
• R Don, Eastwood: Goosander - 1 - drake ; Moorhen - 3 ; Mallard - 3 - drakes
• Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 151 - (at least) roosted after much disturbance from dogs off lead ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair
• Rivelin Dams: Goosander - 4 - 1 male 3 redheads ; Tufted Duck - 2
• Rivelin Valley: 319 - 2 - displaying and mewing towards Wyming Brook
• Roundwood Golf course: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 5 - inc song
• RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Goosander - 5 - 3 male, 2 female ; Goldeneye - 6 - 2 male, 4 female ; 320 - 2 - 1 male, 1 female ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - heard in numerous locations so likely several
• Silverwood (Pit Wood): Nuthatch - 3 - All calling one near last years nest. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male.
• Thrybergh Bar Mills: Stock Dove - 2 - in aerial display
• Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 8 ; Curlew - 2 - Came in from East departed North 0920 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 33 ; Gadwall - 3