Sightings Archive

Sunday 28th February 2021

• Orgreave Lakes: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - The dance pt3 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Gadwall - 3 ; 320 - 1 - Male ; Wigeon - 10 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Pochard - 3 - Males ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Goose sp - 5 - Abandoned eggs on top of island ; Oystercatcher - 3 - Copulation observed on small lake island
• Peat Pits: Lapwing - c40 - some on nest site perhaps others in flocks ; Skylark - c7 ; Pheasant - 4 - males ; Golden Plover - c200 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - in garden ; Starling - c40 - some feeding field others in a small flying flock ; Robin - 1 - in garden
• Peat Pits; field adj to Delph Road: Yellowhammer - c5 - feeding off seeds in arable field
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 3 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chaffinch - 3 - one singing ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing
• Redmires Res: 320 - 2 - Pair on Middle Res ; Lapwing - 52 - inc several displaying along conduit ; Oystercatcher - 4 - on Middle Res ; Dunlin - 1 - early bird on Middle Res ; Curlew - 2 - on Middle Res ; Siskin - 9 - flew W ; Linnet - 1 - arrived from E - first returning bird
• Sothall: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig recorded calling over the garden 2054hr
• Soughley Lane, Redmires: Oystercatcher - 2 - In field near lower dam
• Stannington, west: Lapwing - 25 - first returning birds to fields near Flash Farm
• Tinsley Golf Course: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - NW at 10.20
• Totley Rise: Dipper - 1 - Collecting nest material on Old Hay Brook, Baslow Road
• Ughill Moors: Lapwing - 5 ; Golden Plover - 15 ; Curlew - 60 - 3 on ground feeding , 57 flying east at dusk. ; Fieldfare - 127+ - heading west at dusk. ; Woodcock - 2 - roding at dusk. ; Snipe - 3 - 2 chipping , 1 bleating at dusk.
• Walker Edge: Dunnock - 5 ; Robin - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male
• Waterthorpe: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Taking sun on neighbours roof. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - In observers garden.
• Wentworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 3 - 2 over, 1 singing ; Linnet - 2
• Wentworth Park; Deer Park: Stock Dove - 1pr ; Redwing - c20 - subsong from treetops by Deer Sheds ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, Temple Hill Plantn ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing, Temple Hill Plantn ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over Temple Hill Plantn ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling
• Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Coot - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mallard - c20 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Cormorant - 1
• Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Greylag Goose - 1 - E ; Mallard - c90 ; Coot - 14 ; Moorhen - 8+ ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Mute Swan - 1pr - colour ringed; 722Y (red), Y035 (yellow) ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - inc 2 displaying ; Black-headed Gull - 103 - loafing on water ; Lapwing - 12 - over ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, woodland to N ; Kestrel - 1 - female, to N ; Little Owl - 1 - calling to N ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 - 1 singing; 1 in aerial display, to N ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming, to N ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling to N ; Wood Duck - 1 - female, feeding in field to N with MA. Presumably bird seen recently on Don at Aldwarke/Eastwood
• Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - sat in treetop ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 6 - subsong from treetops
• Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Tufted Duck - 4 - 3m; 1f ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mallard - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - W
• West Nab/Swan Height: Dunnock - 5 ; Wren - 2 ; Stonechat - at least 7 - 1 catching flies ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing males ; Robin - 1 ; Linnet - 1 - singing male