Sightings Archive

Norwood Allotments: House Martin - 20+ - feeding over trees. ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 4

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 2 - on small lake ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - adults ; Little Grebe - 9 - on small lake ; Kingfisher - 1 - on small lake

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 41 - inc 2 1cy ; Mallard - 3

Parkgate; Little Bridge Road: Starling - c60 - gorging on Sorbus berries

R Don, Eastwood: Kestrel - 1 ; Mallard - c35 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 - SW ; Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over ; Coal Tit - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 4+ - in garden

Redmires Middle Res: Stonechat - 1

Redmires Res: Mallard - 70 - c. ; 320 - 2 ; Lapwing - 30 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 60 - c. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 70 - c. ; Tree Pipit - 1 - flew S ; Whinchat - 1 - juv by Roper Hill ; Meadow Pipit - 50 - flew SW ; Goldfinch - 20 - flew SW ; Linnet - 200 - c. post-breeding flock on Middle Res ; Willow Warbler - 1 - still singing by Bottom Res ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1

Roundwood Golf course: Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/juv, over ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Swallow - 5 - SW together

Shillito Wood: House Martin - c10 - loose flock feeding high over area ; Yellowhammer - 2+ - juvs ; Robin - 3 - inc 2 partial juvs

Silver Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from lower woods at 06.25 ; Yellowhammer - 5 - in hedgerow to west of woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 11 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - south at 07.05 (heard) ; Linnet - 12

Thrybergh CP: Hen Harrier - 1 - seen n of site drifted from w to nne 0900 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 6 - 4ad2j ; Cormorant - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 14 - inc.10 circled then ne ; Canada Goose - 230 ; 320 - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; 319 - 5 - 2n3se soar ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lapwing - 70 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 25 - inc party 10+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 50 - flock ; Greenfinch - 19 - 10-Sep

Thrybergh Tip: Canada Goose - c220 - 15 SW; flock on water left in smaller parties, most towards Thrybergh CP (inc grey & white hybrid) ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Gadwall - 28 ; Shoveler - 21 ; 320 - 29 - feeding on muddy margins ; Mallard - 70 ; Snipe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 25 ; Cormorant - 13 - 2 in briefly; 7 SW; 4 W ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - 'alba' wagtail, SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Common Buzzard - 1 - W ; Nuthatch - 2 - inc 1 singng (not regular here) ; Linnet - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Pheasant - 6 - inc 3 crowing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - 1 f/juv; 1 male ; Bullfinch - 4+ ; Chiffchaff - 7 - 2 singing ; Jay - 6 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Blackcap - 7 ; Moorhen - 14+

Agden Beck: Merlin - 1 - ad male across valley, and landed on Emlin Moor

Barbrook Pools: Swallow - 5 - 5SW ; Meadow Pipit - 80+ - SW or S between 09:00 and 10:00 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Stonechat - 1

Damflask Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad with LBBG ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25

Derwent Edge: Raven - 8 - heading N

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Over sheep paddock. ; Swallow - 10+ - Over main Res.