Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - in flight over large lake

Parkwood Springs: Blackcap - 3 - 2 males ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 2 ads, 1 juv

Sothall: Barn Owl - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0332hr ; Snipe - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0353hr - another addition to the garden list.

Treeton: Hobby - 1 - catching insects late morning

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 2 - in observers garden

Wharncliffe Wood: Green Woodpecker - 1

Burbage: Black Redstart - 1 - still present below car park

Burbage Rocks: Black Redstart - 1 - showing well intermittently, 11.05 - 12.00, c. 200 yards south of the east side c/p. ; Wheatear - 1 ; Stonechat - up to 5 ; Chiffchaff - up to 4 ; Black Redstart - 1 - 17:05 - on rocks to east of main path, viewed from top ; Wheatear - 1 ; Stonechat - 1+ - Including one bathing in main path side pool!

Calver: 319 - 1

Firsby Res: Cormorant - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Siskin - 2+

Froggatt Bridge: Mandarin - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1

Froggatt, Spooner Lane: Goldfinch - 1

Grindleford: Kestrel - 1

Hathersage: 319 - 1

Low Common: 319 - 1 - flying between Rockingham wood and Morley Pond.

Malin Bridge: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over N ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over calling

Middle Common: Goose sp - 30+ - Skein E over Rockingham wood @ 11:45. ; Kestrel - 1

Middleton Moor: 320 - 16 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1100+ - At 6 pm ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - Adults ; Dunlin - 3 ; Redshank - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Wigeon - 15 ; 320 - 11 ; Whinchat - 1 - Again in scrub behind small lake ; Stonechat - 2

R Derwent, Grindleford: Grey Wagtail - 1

R Derwent, Leadmill-Harper Lees: Dipper - 1 ; Goosander - 1

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - Over calling. ; Siskin - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - In with LT Tit flock. ; Blackcap - 1 - Juv with Tit flock. ; Long-tailed Tit - 15+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - Juv above path.

Redmires: Kestrel - 2 - Hunting over moor near Fairthorn Plantation.

Redmires conduit: Peregrine - 2 - Mobbing a flying Buzzard.

RVCP: Ringed Plover - 1 - juv on Main Lake ; Goosander - 7 - imm River Rother ; Raven - 1 - south

Stanage Edge: Wheatear - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 8+

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - hunting over flax crop. ; Hirundine - 20+ - House Martins and Swallows.

Wharncliffe Side: Barn Owl - 2 - hunting in fields to the west of the village at dusk

Baslow: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing in observer's garden

Bramley: Lesser Redpoll - 2 - Over Flanderwell Avenue calling PM.

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c15 - c 15 south at 1220

Dronfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Visiting garden daily

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 - Small Res. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40+ - On ploughed field plenty of Gull- Corvid interaction. ; Herring Gull - 2 - In with LBB Flock. ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ - With HG & LBB Gulls. ; Rook - 20+ - with Gulls. ; Jackdaw - 10+ - In with Gulls and Rooks. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Linnet - 4 - Over. ; Bullfinch - 2+ - Juvs. ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Malin Bridge: Siskin - 4 - flew N ; Common Buzzard - 1 - low W calling

Midhope Res: Goldfinch - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 150-200 ; Greylag Goose - 150-200 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Crossbill - 2 ; Siskin - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 23 ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - In a mixed tit flock ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - c30

Orgreave Lakes: Pintail - 1 - Eclipse drake circled with Shoveler and left north. ; Shoveler - 2 ; Pochard - 86 ; Lapwing - 15 ; Stonechat - 2 - On tip at rear of Small Lake ; Whinchat - 1 - With Stonechat

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Forge Island: Grey Wagtail - 1