Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 1 - left W ; Mute Swan - 5 - pr +3y ; Canada Goose - 280+ ; Gadwall - 2 - m+f ; Shoveler - 6 - f/j ; 320 - 4 ; Pochard - 2 - m+f ; Tufted Duck - 54 ; Lapwing - 70+ ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swift - 2 ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Swallow - 40+ ; House Martin - 8 ; Robin - 24 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Reed Warbler - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 6 ; Chiffchaff - 29 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 80+ - inc.flock 60+ ; Greenfinch - 14+ - inc.party 10+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - male

Worrall: House Martin - 70+ - Flocking prior to departure around 10:00. A few Swallows in flock but mostly House Martins

Deepcar/garden: House Martin - 9 ; House Sparrow - Oct-15 ; Starling - 15 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Magpie - 2

Ecclesall: Swift - 2 - flew S mid-afternoon

Ewden Height: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - 1+4 SW at 19.45 and 20.15 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard 19.45 ; Kestrel - 1

Holmesfield: Little Owl - 1

Hope Valley: Kestrel - 1

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - flying down river ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Kelham Island: Goosander - 1 - Brown head goosander flew upstream towards Ball Bridge

Linacre Res: Osprey - 1 - per DOS

Longshaw: Redstart - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 20 ; Siskin - 30

Middleton Moor: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 2 ; Hobby - 2 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Shoveler - 3 ; 320 - 13 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Osprey - 1 - circling at 10:45 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - dropped in 11:35 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 2 - left to NW at 9.30 ; Little Owl - 2

Millhouses: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling on Springfield Rd at 01.10.

Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 1 - Female by small lake ; Wheatear - 1 - Imm on tip road ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Juv in scrub by inlet bridge ; Shoveler - 5 ; Little Grebe - 9 - On small lake

Ramsley Moor: Whinchat - 9 ; Stonechat - 5 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Redstart - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Hobby - 1 - over from W & accelerated away to E @ 1210hrs

Redmires Plantation: Red Grouse - 1 - Flew over path and landed in long grass ; Stonechat - 2 - Adult and juvenile

Rivelin Valley: Swift - 6 - Over Wolf Wheel midday ; 319 - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - Including rung young, one with Pink and one yellow in observers garden in

Shepherd Wheel: 319 - 1 - flying over

Stanage Edge, below: Goldfinch - 25

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 16 ; Canada Goose - 180+ ; Pochard - 4 - 2m, 2f ; Tufted Duck - 50 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Coot - 93 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 1 ad. 2 juv ; Sand Martin - 8 ; Swallow - 70 - inc.60+ resting on wires ; Swift - 1 ; Blackcap - 6 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Reed Warbler - 2+ - calling from r/bed ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 28 - inc.5 singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - call in treetops ; Reed Bunting - 2

Troway: Bullfinch - 2 - 1m,1f

Underbank Res/ lower midhope: Moorhen - 1 ; Robin - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 5