Sightings Archive

Thursday 7th January 2021

• Barlow Common: Song Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, hunting
• Beighton: Skylark - 16 - Feeding in field behind Springwell Grove ; Greenfinch - 4
• Beighton Marsh: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 15 - In adjacent horse paddock ; Fieldfare - 1 - adjacent horse paddock
• Bolsterstone: Barn Owl - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
• Bramley: Common Gull - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - Coming to garden feeders.
• Broomhead Res: Mandarin - 3 - 2 males, 1 female
• Canyards: Fieldfare - 18 ; Stonechat - 1 - male on fence posts opposite old quarry ; Woodcock - 1 - flew across road just past cottage
• Catcliffe Flash: 319 - 2 - Above the flash ; Shoveler - 1 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Gadwall - 6
• Centenary Riverside: Goosander - 2 - redheads ; Cormorant - 1 - over ; Mallard - 3 - 2 male 1 female ; Long-tailed Tit - 3
• Ecclesall: Goldcrest - 1 - In Silver Birch tree with 4+ long tailed tits
• Ecclesall Woods: Stock Dove - 4 - Wood 2. Song and display involving two birds, ; Treecreeper - 1
• Forge Dam: Mandarin - 4
• Frith Wood, Dronfield: 319 - 2 - In field to E of wood ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1
• Fulwood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Flying NW
• Gleadless Valley LNR: Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - heard
• Green Moor: Blackbird - 14 - Max of 14 on ob's lawn ; Tree Sparrow - 5 ; Tree Sparrow - 11 - Max count on feeders
• Greystones: Mistle Thrush - 1
• Greystones garden: Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1
• Hillsborough Park: Nuthatch - 2
• Holbrook Marsh: Snipe - 1
• Holdsworth: Little Owl - 1 - half mile west of hamlet, sunning itself on farm building.
• Killamarsh Meadows: Grey Partridge - 8
• Kimberworth Park: Dunnock - 1 - singing from grounds of Roughwood School. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Up from Grey Hill.
• Kiveton Community Woodland: Snipe - 4 - in adjacent fields
• Malin Bridge: Barn Owl - 1 - nocmig: flight call 04:36 ; Moorhen - 1 - nocmig: calling 04:51
• Middle Common: Sparrowhawk - 1 - N.
• Moss Valley, upper: 319 - 1 - Being mobbed by Crow ; Sparrowhawk - 1m - Flew right past us very low as we sat under a tree having a snack ; Green Woodpecker - 1 heard ; Jay - 1 ; Redwing - 50+ - Feeding in field in evening
• Nether Haugh: Red Kite - 1 - low over b6089 in direction of Hoober stand.
• Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Wren - 1
• Oakes Park: Kestrel - 1 - Flew into trees at the entrance to the Park
• Orgreave Lakes: Water Pipit - 1 - On island of small lake ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Blackbird - 8 ; Redwing - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Wigeon - 70 ; Pochard - 30+ ; Tufted Duck - 30+ ; Coot - 30+ ; 320 - 10+ ; Lapwing - 33 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Starling - 4 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Water Rail - 1 - Along river bank ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2nd winter
• Parkgate; *Banana* Plantation: Greenfinch - 3 - NW ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting from treetops ; Goldfinch - c25 ; Siskin - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chaffinch - 4+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Coal Tit - 2 ; Redwing - 5 ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Goldfinch - c15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Kestrel - 1 - female ; Long-tailed Tit - 1
• Ringinglow: Black-headed Gull - 6+ ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 12 - Feeding in Firs farm field