Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 - inc 4.-3-2 n ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Skylark - 6 - 5 singing ; Wren - 13 - singing ; Dunnock - 19 - 17 singing ; Robin - 22 - 14 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - north then back south later ; Fieldfare - 40+ - in from east ; Blackbird - 8 - 2 singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 - 4pr ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - 2e2w ; Greenfinch - 6 - 2 singing ; Bullfinch - 6 - 3pr ; Reed Bunting - 26 - inc 6 singing & 15 at f/stat. ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 1singing ; Brambling - 24+ - at f/stat

Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Magpie - 7 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Mallard - 6 - 2prs + 2m ; Shoveler - 1pr ; Gadwall - 10 - 4prs + 2m ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Stock Dove - 2

Botanical Gardens: Mistle Thrush - Pair - Being harassed by a magpie near the Brocco Bank entrance.

Bramley: Goldcrest - 1 - In tree in Morrison’s car park.

Bray Plantation: Woodpigeon - 1 - sing ; Wren - 1+ - sing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 3 - sing ; Blackbird - 1 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1 - sing ; Great Tit - 1+ - sing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Burngreave: Common Buzzard - 1 - over

Cartledge flat: Golden Plover - 10 - Paired birds throughout moors

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 2 - pair

Chatsworth: 319 - 1 ; 321 - c5 - Mainly individuals flying around noisily in evening

Crosspool: Siskin - 2 - Male and female in garden ; Brambling - 1 - Single female in garden

Denaby Common/Low Meadow: Greylag Goose - 20 ; Canada Goose - 18 ; Gadwall - c30 ; Wigeon - c250 - on extensive floodwaters ; Black-headed Gull - c500 ; Herring Gull - 7 ; Mallard - c30 ; Carrion Crow - 46 ; 320 - 2 ; Lapwing - 14 ; Starling - c100 - feeding on wet grassland ; Cormorant - 4 - NW ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Common Gull - 1 - adult

Dore garden: Brambling - 3 - 1m,2f ; Reed Bunting - 1 - m, rare in this garden

Edensor: Sparrowhawk - 1

Emlin Ridge: Stonechat - 1 - Male on moor

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - 1 M, 2 F. ; 319 - 3 - Lots of loud calling and display ; Jay - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 2 - Males. ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Goldfinch - 8

Gleadless Valley: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Green Moor: Brambling - 15+ - Still feeding in garden

Heeley City Farm: Peregrine - 2 - came over from the NE at 15:20, very vocal, one making diving passes at the other, a few minutes later one flew off to the west & the other circled higher & drifted NE ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male chasing Goldfinch flock around feeders. ; Mallard - 2 - flew over going west ; Goldfinch - 20+ - visiting feeders. ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Greenfinch - 2 - pair with male singing ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 14 ; House Sparrow - 15+ ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flying over to the west ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - pair ; Redwing - 15 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Male Singing

Hooton Common; Denaby Lane: Red-legged Partridge - 4 ; Lapwing - 19 - some display ; Cormorant - 2 - left fishing pond

Hooton Roberts; Holmes Lane: Song Thrush - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over

Kilnhurst Ings: Kestrel - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing