Sightings Archive

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Reed Bunting - 1 - W, then SW ; Magpie - 10-Dec - in area, inc pair refurbishing old nest ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, made unsuccessful attempt to take Woodpigeon ; Cormorant - 1 - N

Porter Brook: Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Wren - 2 - By side of stream ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

R Don, Deepcar: Dipper - 2 - Pair and male singing on River Don at Tin Mill.

R Sheaf Saxon/Broadfield Rd: Goldcrest - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mandarin - 5 - 3M+2F first of the year here

Rivelin Filters: Tufted Duck - 2 - pair. My only sighting here Jan-Mar

Roundwood Golf course: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 6 - inc males chasing & bursts of song ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over @ 0825hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 5 - 4 males ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Coot - 12 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Black-headed Gull - c.110 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults ; Rook - 3 - south ; Siskin - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Linnet - 10 - 1 singing ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.15 ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Smithy Wood: Snipe - 12 - On waste ground ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Stone Moor: Red Grouse - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Chaffinch - 03-Apr ; Robin - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Raven - 5 - flew in from Midhope area circling and calling loudly before heading towards Strines area ; Great Tit - 03-Apr ; Jackdaw - 12+

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 3 ; Redwing - 4 ; Blackbird - 15 ; Robin - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2 pairs

Sugden Clough: Robin - 1 - singing ; Red Grouse - 3+ - much courtship ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Totley: House Sparrow - 3 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Willow Tit - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - All on Moss Road

Ulley brook: Siskin - 40+ - feeding in alders. ; Skylark - 29 - feeding in adjacent field of winter cereal ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - in with the skylarks

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - 30 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Curlew - 4 ; Stonechat - 2 - Male and female ; Siskin - 10

Birleyhay: 321 - 2 ; Mandarin - 2 - a pair - May have been more - couldn’t see the whole water area from the footpath

Dore back garden: Lesser Redpoll - 3 - at feeders ; Siskin - 3 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Bullfinch - 2 - pr

Gleadless: 319 - 1

Gleadless Valley LNR: Chiffchaff - 3

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew through observer's garden ; 319 - 2 - Drifted together over, mobbed by 2 crows

Hillsborough Park: Nuthatch - 2 - Calling by the library ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing in trees by library ; Redwing - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1

Holbrook Marsh: Snipe - 2 ; Jack Snipe - 1

Masborough Junction: Woodcock - 1

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 2 - a pair visiting the sunflower hearts feeder

Moss Valley, upper: 319 - 5 in total - 2, 2, 1 ; Skylark - 5

Moss Valley, upper - Sicklebrook Lane: Yellowhammer - 4

Norfolk Park garden: Starling - 3+ - One singing from nearby tree am; first I've heard this in the four years I've lived here. ; Feral Pigeon - 3 - on garden feeders ; Woodpigeon - 3