Sightings Archive

Sunday 3rd March 2019

• Catcliffe Flash: 320 - 5 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Kingfisher - 2 - flew across flash ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - prospecting nest site ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Pochard - 6
• Crookes: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Near northern edge of cemetery.
• Crosspool: Waxwing - 6 - On Manchester Rd near Coldwell Rd at 11:30
• Dalton: Black-headed Gull - c50 - on sports ground ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Rook - 24 - on pylons, with birds carrying nest material to usual nest sites on pylon arms ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Ecclesall: Bullfinch - 2 - pair in Ansell Road garden - male later heard singing ; Brambling - 1 - in Ansell Road garden - some sub-song heard
• Eckington: Water Rail - 1 - Heard in marshy, bulrushy area on R. Moss near church.
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Starling - c300 - flock E @ 0650hrs ; Skylark - 02-Mar - singing over adjacent cereal crops ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Bullfinch - 04-Jun ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 - over to E ; Reed Bunting - 1pr - song ; Moorhen - 2prs ; Coot - 1pr ; 320 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Mute Swan - 8 - (inc 2 2cy), SW @ 0808hrs
• Froggatt: Mandarin - 2 - a pair by large pond at bottom of garden that backs on to R Derwent
• Froggatt Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard
• Great Hucklow: Fieldfare - 50+
• Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium: Redwing - 30+
• Kimberworth: Siskin - 2 - Male and female feeding in the garden and the willow tree. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Feeding In garden trees ; Greenfinch - 1 - On the sunflower hearts feeder with a small 'charm' of goldfinches.
• Loxley Valley: Goosander - 1 - Female on millpond.
• Millhouses garden: Jay - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - male
• Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 2 - In at 09:30 ; Curlew - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing by bridge ; Bullfinch - 4 - by bridge ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Skylark - 5 ; Redshank - 3 ; Curlew - 1 - arrived from E ; Black-headed Gull - 250 - c. ; Common Gull - 1 ; Lapwing - 30 - c. inc individual with aberrant upperpart colouration - more akin to Ringed Plover! ; Goldeneye - 6 ; Goosander - 2 ; Pochard - 35 - c.mostly on small pond ; Wigeon - 25 - c. ; Reed Bunting - 4 - pair & 2 males singing ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - from off R. Rother ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Little Grebe - 1 - mobbed by BHG's - different bird to adult on river ; Grey Partridge - 2 - By rocks ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair ; Redshank - 3 ; Skylark - 25 - Singing birds ; Rock Pipit - 1 - Littoralis on northern shore ; Sand Martin - 2 - In at 09:25
• R Derwent, Calver: Mandarin - 2 - a pair
• R Derwent, Calver Mill: Mandarin - 30 - 15 pairs
• R Don, Aldwarke: Mallard - 7 - 3prs; 1m ; Goosander - 1pr ; Kingfisher - 1pr - around nesting bank, f with tell-tale soil on bill. ; Moorhen - 1 ; 320 - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Chiffchaff - 1 - brief song ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing + one calling nearby ; Mute Swan - 4 - inc 1 2cy, SW
• R Rother, Treeton: Little Grebe - 1 - ad seen whilst walking a circuit of Orgreave Lakes
• Redmires Res: 320 - 5 - on Top Res ; Mallard - 32 - on Top Res ; Lapwing - 28 - on Top Res ; Linnet - 70 - c. flock feeding on Top Res - highest pre-breeding flock for many years
• Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 2 - foraging in River Rivelin near Swallow Wheel Dam.
• Rud Hill: Golden Plover - 40 - c. ; Fieldfare - 100 - c. over moor
• Shirecliffe: Brambling - 1 - single male this morning ; Lesser Redpoll - 11 - taking nyjer seed from feeders ; Blackcap - 1 - male singing this morning from hawthorn but presumably overwintering bird seen previously.
• Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 - original pair returned this morning and hastily ousted newcomers ; Mute Swan - 2 - original pair returned this morning and hastily ousted newcomers ; Cormorant - 2 - north ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - adults ; Siskin - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 90
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - 2cy ; Mute Swan - 24 ; Canada Goose - 33 - + 1 grey feral