Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Coal Tit - 1 ; Brambling - 20+ - inc 17at f/stat + others calling around siteinc 17at f/stat ; Lesser Redpoll - 9 - +1 prob. mealy ; Yellowhammer - 5

Totley Moss Road: Stonechat - 1 - Male singing

Tyzack*s Dam: 321 - 3 - Each on a fishing platform ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Goosander - 2 ; 319 - 1

Upper Barbrook: Stonechat - 1 - male singing

Wheatlands Lane: Barn Owl - 1 - Over fields below Bramley Wood, near Wheatlands Lane ; Song Thrush - 1

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2 ; Mandarin - 4 - 2 pairs on river ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Nuthatch - 4 - including one bird visiting tree hole with nesting mterial

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon briefly ; Mute Swan - 48 - SW (inc 22 2cy) between 0647-0905hrs ; Lapwing - 1 ; Mallard - 1pr ; Snipe - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - calling

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1pr - on adjacent chimneys briefly, one reappearing on nearby water tower; male(?) back on chimney with prey later.

Attercliffe: 319 - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Barlborough: Common Buzzard - c7 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - One heard "drumming" ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Wren - c8 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Robin - c8 ; Chaffinch - c10 ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Goldcrest - c6 - Several singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - two pairs ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - c8 ; Great Tit - c10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Rook - C20

Beauchief garden: Chiffchaff - 1

Beeley Wood: Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing

Bitholmes Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Blackburn Meadows NR: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 21.10

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 3 - 3 singing

Dronfield Bypass: 319 - 4 over

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 - at feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders

Heeley City Farm: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2 - pair, male singing ; Woodpigeon - 26 - feeding on fresh buds in cheery trees. ; Magpie - 6 ; Carrion Crow - 10 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Blackbird - 10 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; House Sparrow - 15+

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 20 - Loads of birds spread out across moors all calling and displaying. Also group of 20 birds together preening in field. ; Oystercatcher - 2 - Pair of birds left fields to roost on Midhope Res calling as they went. ; Raven - 1 - Single bird flew off moors into trees by Midhope res. ; 319 - 3

Morehall Res: Woodcock - 4 - Roding

Neepsend: Kingfisher - 2 - male and female ; Goosander - 2 - male and female ; 321 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 1 - male around NW mound.

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Canada Goose - 1 - N @ 0618hrs ; Black-headed Gull - 145 - SW in parties of 52 between 0600-0800hrs ; Herring Gull - 13 - 4 S; 9 SW ; Greylag Goose - 5 - W @ 0708hrs ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - 'alba' wagtail, SW ; Cormorant - 2 - 1 E @ 064hrs; 1 NE @ 0707hrs

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0555hrs

Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 2

Roundwood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over, mobbed by corvid @ 0745hrs

Roundwood Golf course: Siskin - 2 - in from E ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Coal Tit - 01-Feb ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 3 - inc 1 singing

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 28 - most leaving w ; Gadwall - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 59