Sightings Archive

Sunday 24th March 2019

• Grange Park Golf Course: Mistle Thrush - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 9+ - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - sing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ - 1 sing ; Treecreeper - 1 - sing, Gallery Bottom Wood ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Chaffinch - 2+ - 2 singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 2+ - sing ; Bullfinch - 2+
• Green Moor: Brambling - 5 ; Brambling - 5 - photo ; Greenfinch - 4
• Harthill Res: Kingfisher - 2 - pair - inc male offering food to female at back of Top Res ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing males at back of Top Res ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 4 - singing
• High Storrs: Brambling - 8 - On feeders and bushes. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male on unsuccessful fly through garden.
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Song Thrush - 1 - skulking in undergrowth ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Did brief yaffle before flying away. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - Males singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - 1 female in bushes near lakeside ; 324 - 2 - Tortoiseshell butterflies ; Mute Swan - 4 - 2 adult, 2 imm ; Great Crested Grebe - 1
• Kilnhurst Hall Wood: Jay - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Magpie - Oct-15 - noisy party, posturing & squabbling in treetops
• Kilnhurst Road: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from garden conifers ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing from garden conifers
• Linacre Res: Cormorant - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
• Low Bradfield: Curlew - 17 - foraging in field off Windy Bank
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 15 ; Common Gull - 72 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 65
• Old Brampton: Sparrowhawk - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: 320 - 3 ; Wheatear - 1 - Female ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - At least 5 singing males ; Goldeneye - 2 - 2 males oon full display ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Goosander - 19 ; Redshank - 6 ; Sand Martin - 15 ; Goldeneye - 5 ; Jack Snipe - 1
• Owlthorpe: Chiffchaff - 6 - Singing
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 100+ - hunkered down in crop ; Fieldfare - c80 - over
• Poolsbrook Marsh: Mute Swan - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling loudly & seen well in edge of marsh ; Willow Tit - 2 - pair at back of marsh ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4
• Poolsbrook, Ireland Pond: Grey Heron - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• R Derwent, Hathersage: Dipper - 2 - between Leadmill bridge and stepping stones ; Canada Goose - 30 - between Leadmill bridge and stepping stones, including 24 at Goose Nest Wood ; Mandarin - 6 - between Leadmill bridge and stepping stones ; Curlew - 37 - single party in fields by lake below Offerton Hall
• R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - pair at apparent nest site just upstream from weir ; Kingfisher - 3 - much chasing; pair repeatedly visiting hole in concrete wall under road ; Grey Heron - 2 - one at weir and one a little downstream
• Ramsley Moor: Fieldfare - 20
• Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - A pair. ; Little Grebe - 1 - Call. ; 319 - 1 - Over calling. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5+ - In tree tops. ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 5 - Singing birds and territory disputes along top path, south side of fishing ponds.