Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Wigeon - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Greenfinch - 22 ; Goldfinch - C20 ; Brambling - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 10

Thrybergh; Bank Wood: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over

Tinsley Golf Course: Woodpigeon - C120

Walkley garden: Redwing - 6 - Intermittent feeding on cotoneaster berries, very flighty. ; 324 - 1 - Badger at compost bins.

Wentworth: 319 - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20+ ; Woodpigeon - 300+ - below Wharncliffe Crags ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Wharncliffe Wood: Kestrel - 1

Barlow Common: Nuthatch - 2 ; Fieldfare - 05-Jun ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Blacka Moor: Stonechat - 1 ; Stonechat - 1

Bowden Housteads Wood: Long-tailed Tit - 16 - In mixed tit flock ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 181 ; Redwing - 122 - Counted lots of birds moving between wood and Asda roundabout. ; Siskin - 26 + - One flock of 26 + 12+7 ; 327 - 18 - In NE corner including one tantalisingly pale bird which was not seen well

Bradwell Ponds: Goosander - 6 - Part of WeBS survey

Brincliffe Edge: Bullfinch - 8 - Another good count in garden - in one binocular view. 5 female, 3 male.

Burncross Cemetery: Dunnock - 1 - Singing ; Redwing - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Damflask Res: Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Mandarin - 83 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Ecclesall: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Same tree in Ecclesall graveyard at 10:15

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Barn Owl - 1 - Flew from willows after being mobbed by Blackbirds. ; Jay - 1 - Calling. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Feeding in hedge bottom. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Feeding in hedge bottom. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 17 - 9+8. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - Over together. ; Pheasant - 2 - On sheep paddock. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Males in cottage hedge.

Frith Wood, Dronfield: Jay - 2

Gleadless Valley LNR: Goldfinch - c10 ; Jay - 1 - heard ; Greenfinch - 8+

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 6

Hangingwater garden: Blackbird - 4 - 3m & 1f ; Jay - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 - 1 singing ; Blue Tit - 7 - with LTTs ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - with BTs ; Blackcap - 1 - m - first seen this winter

Kimberworth: Blackbird - 3 - 3 males together feeding on brown bread put out in the snow.

Loxley Valley: Coot - 3 - 2 on millpond by Loxley park, one on Old Wheel Dam. ; 320 - 2 - drakes on Old Wheel Dam and on Goyt downstream ; Dipper - 1 - on river near Storrs bridge ; Kingfisher - 1 - on Goyt near Storrs Bridge ; 321 - 2 - Old Wheel Dam and Storrs Bridge fishing pond.

Norton Lees: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - heard

Summerley: Kestrel - 2 - Male & female on adjacent telegraph poles

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 15 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Pochard - 12 ; Gadwall - 10 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Blackbird - 18 ; Song Thrush - 6 ; Fieldfare - 36 ; Redwing - 12 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Skylark - 6 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Greenfinch - 14 ; Goldfinch - C30 ; Bullfinch - 10 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4

Unstone: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - In trees above Unstone line path

Wharncliffe Side: Nuthatch - 1 - in observers garden, prospecting nest box

Banner Cross: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Over observer’s house S for the second time in 3 days

Blacka Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 17 - At top of Moss Lane