Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Wood: Raven - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 3 ; Redwing - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in scrub to the south of the wood ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Nuthatch - 5 ; Siskin - 19 ; Blue Tit - 15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 21 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Coal Tit - 19 - 10+ singing ; Goldfinch - 40+ ; Treecreeper - 2

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Adult Stevenson road.

Barbrook Cottage: Fieldfare - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Blacka Moor: Crossbill - 15 - Feeding in Strawberry Lea Plantation and flying over Cowsick bog.

Canklow Woods: Tawny Owl - 2 - 2 calling at 0610

Derwentdale: Crossbill - 15 - Including 2 singing male and one pair courtship feeding ; Siskin - C40 - Several singing males.

Dronfield: Jay - 2 - Alongside Hilltop Rd/Hallowes golf course ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - On Hallowes golf course

Hagg Lane Allotments: Bullfinch - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 1 on bird feeders plot 167 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - Bird feeders plot 167 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Great Tit - 4 ; House Sparrow - 2 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Jay - 1 ; Robin - 4 ; Magpie - 3 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 3

Hallam Head: Herring Gull - 2 - Vocal adult pair on flat roof of Hallam School - not seen here before

Hurlfield: Common Buzzard - 5 - up together over Hurlfield at 07:50.

Lodge Moor: Common Gull - 1 - Adult on cricket pitch at Spider Park

Longshaw: Brambling - 100 - approx number behind Discovery Centre feeding on beech mast

Loxley Chase: Red Kite - 1 - over SW

Manor Fields Park: Kingfisher - 1 - on top pond 08:15-09:00. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - using watercourse ; Blackbird - 10+ - minimum 10 birds across park. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 3 birds singing. ; Wren - 7 - at least 7 very vocal and active birds. ; Mallard - 9 ; Moorhen - 2

Norbrigg*s Flash: Barn Owl - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Raven - 2 - a pair flew north at dusk ; Magpie - 27 - roosting ; Water Rail - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 2+ - flock nocmig recorded over at 2235hr

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 6 - on big lake at 10:40

river don: Goosander - 2 - 1 pair fishing

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Buzzard - 4 - in the air together ; Pochard - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 160 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 5 - party SE ; Kestrel - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2

Stubley Hollow: House Sparrow - 25 ; Redwing - 39 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; 319 - 1

Agden Res: Jay - 1 ; Mallard - 8 ; Blue Tit - 9 ; Great Tit - 7 ; Coal Tit - 7 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Jackdaw - 6 ; Woodpigeon - 8 ; Raven - 2 - calling and flying in and out of conifers on woodseats side of res

Beauchief Drive: 319 - 1 - Flying low over golf course. ; Jay - 4

Brincliffe Edge: Goldfinch - 34 - unusually large flock in garden

Longshaw: Brambling - 3+ - Around the base of the trees situated NW of the access road to the NT Visitor Centre & Longshaw Lodge off the B6521

Loxley Valley: Iceland Gull - 1 - A report of a frst winter bird flying low westward over pasture.

North Lees: Blackcap - 1 - Female in observer's garden

West Nab: Golden Plover - 200/250 - calling and feeding in field opposite farm ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - in tree by Swan Cottage ; Redwing - 30+ - in field by White Lee X Roads at dusk

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1