Sightings Archive

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Yellowhammer - 5 - 3 (2 singing) SK4396; 2 (1 singing) SK4296 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - SW ; Stock Dove - 2 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Linnet - 4 - over ; Oystercatcher - 1 - S/SW calling @ 0937hrs

Newbold, Chesterfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over

Orgreave Lakes: Shelduck - 5 - South at 07:30 ; Shoveler - 2 - Pair ; Whitethroat - 1 - Along river ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - 1 south. 1 east

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 4 - 2 pairs at nestboxes, carrying nesting material

Parkgate Canal Basin: Sand Martin - 3

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Chaffinch - 5 - 3m; 2f ; Pheasant - 2 - females ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - m & f ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Robin - 1pr - feeding young in nest ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 4 - soaring over together @ 1340hrs ; Raven - 1 - soaring high over @ 1500hrs; drifted N

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 4 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1

Redmires: Willow Warbler - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 3+ ; Goldfinch - 6+ ; Linnet - 30+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Redmires Bottom Res: Swallow - 2

Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - pair ; Redstart - 1 - Singing male ; Lapwing - 3+ ; Curlew - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Mallard - 10+

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 2 - male and female together on River Rivelin near fire station.

Rumbling Street: 321 - 1 - in flight ; 319 - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Swallow - 1

Smithy Wood, Chapeltown: 319 - 5 - Circling together 11.15 ; Jay - 3+ - Seemed to be a few around general area ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Linnet - 6 - 2 singing on territory ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 7 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Robin - 10 ; Dunnock - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1

Station road, Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male over the Common junction,pursued by Pied Wagtail.

Strawberry Lea pasture: Ring Ouzel - 8 - Generally stayed together whilst resting and feeding.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 84 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 28 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - 1 West 10:35 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - male ; Blackcap - 8 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Sand Martin - c30 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Walkley Bank: Robin - 2+ - two adults with at least one recently-fledged youngster in garden.

Wentworth: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantation: Nuthatch - 2 - 1 singing ; Stock Dove - 6 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Jackdaw - present - good numbers in woodland, particularly around Mausoleum ; Common Buzzard - 3

Agden: Wheatear - 2 - On smallfield lane