Sightings Archive

Saturday 20th February 2021

• Manor Fields Park: Moorhen - 4 ; Water Rail - 1 - at 07:25. ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Linnet - 6 ; Chaffinch - 5 - inc 2 singing ; Greenfinch - 4 - 2 sing males ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Blackbird - 8+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 - min 4 singing ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Wren - 5+ - singing birds on site ; Skylark - 3 - over 2 heard only ; Stonechat - 2 - North end of site 07:35-08:20. Poss the 2 birds recently on Gleadless Common.
• Mayfield Valley: Little Owl - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult over W ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing below David Lane
• Meersbrook: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - Over Upper Albert Road
• Midhope Res: Goldfinch - 1 singing ; Tufted Duck - Pair ; Mallard - 14
• Neepsend: 319 - 1 - Soaring over being mobbed by crows
• Norfolk Park garden: Blackbird - 1 - singing male ; Wren - 1 - singing male ; Dunnock - 1 - singing male
• Norton Lees: Greenfinch - 1 - heard
• Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2
• Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Goosander - 34 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 13 - In pre roost. Rain stopped play at 17.25 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Herring Gull - 104 ; Black-headed Gull - c1500 ; Goldeneye - 4 ; Little Grebe - 5
• Peat Pits: Lapwing - 50 ; Starling - 20 ; Golden Plover - 234+ - Flock hunkered down on ground . Followed by up to 500 flying low over fields and a distant flock high and heading west of perhaps 1000 birds
• Porter Valley: Treecreeper - 1 - In trees along Clough Lane ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m and 1f quietly feeding on buds alongside Clough Lane ; Pheasant - 5 - 4m and 1f in fields by Clough Lane ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Rook - 30+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Dipper - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 17+ ; Mandarin - 2 - 1 male,1 female on Forge Dam pond. ; Jackdaw - 20+ ; Great Tit - 2
• R Don, Blonk St: Mallard - c5 - 5 males 1 female ; Moorhen - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Feral Pigeon - 5+
• R Don, Esteli Parade.: Mallard - 5 - majority males ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Feral Pigeon - c10 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Robin - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2
• R Don, Kelham: Mallard - 3 ; Magpie - 1 - nest in tree by mill goit/apartments ; Goosander - 1 - redhead
• Ravenfield Park: Mute Swan - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Together at edge of recently excavated pool. ; Goldcrest - 2 - With Long Tailed Tits. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Treecreeper - 1
• Ringinglow: Black-headed Gull - 50+
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 72 ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c1000 - on water and fields until Gas gun went off ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Fieldfare - 33 ; Song Thrush - 4 - 4 singing birds ; Sparrowhawk - 1 m ; 319 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1m ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Little Owl - 1
• Underbank Res: Tufted Duck - 5 - four males one female at village end of res ; Moorhen - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Mallard - 7