Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 51 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Coot - 50 - c ; Moorhen - 12 ; Dunlin - 1 - w/p ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Common Gull - 2 - ad 1-2cy ; Herring Gull - 5 - inc.1s2s ; 319 - 1 - n ; Brambling - 25+ ; Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 17 - 2 singing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 1 singing ; Dunlin - 1 - Feeding at waters edge.

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 3 - in area

Thrybergh Tip: Tufted Duck - 8 - 5m; 3f ; Gadwall - 12 - 7m; 5f ; Coot - 12 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - cob colour ringed 593 (yellow); pen with BTO ring only ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Raven - 2 - one circling over calling, left SW @ 0758hrs with a second rapidly over to SW calling @ 0759hrs ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Pheasant - 3+ - crowing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing (SK4596 & 4696) ; Song Thrush - 4 - inc 3 singing

Barlborough: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting slowly south over the village

Carr Vale Nature Reserve: Chiffchaff - 1+ - SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (tristris) still present, showing well and occasionally singing in scrub by path adjacent to NE corner of sewage works SK 46113 70156. Also several collybita Chiffchaff present.

Cartledge flat: Curlew - 1 - Single bird deffending area ; Golden Plover - 7 - flying low around moor ; Kestrel - 2

Cinder Hills: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Wren - 1+ - sing ; Robin - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 2

Cowell Flat: Curlew - 1

Crosspool: Waxwing - 6+

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 8 - At least 3 prs. ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 5+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Dronfield: 319 - 7 - Group circling above Monk Wood

Ecclesall: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female in Ansell Road garden ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - flew S over Ansell Road

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 21 - at 11:20 ; Redwing - 1

Elsecar Res: Water Rail - 1 - very active this motning

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; 320 - 1 - Male. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Displaying ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female through woodland ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Siskin - 1+ - Call only.

Graves Park: 319 - 3 - Three in close circle broken up by mobbing corvids ; Tufted Duck - c20 ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead on bottom lake

High Storrs: Brambling - 2 - On garden feeder. ; Blackcap - 1 - Male on garden feeder.

Holling Dale: Raven - 2 ; Curlew - 1

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ - sing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Wren - 3+ - sing ; Robin - 3+ - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1+ - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - sing ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Nuthatch - 2 - sing ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - sing ; Bullfinch - 1 - Female feeding on Ash keys.

Hurkling Edge: Raven - 2

Kimberworth Park: Rook - 5 - 2 nests grounds of Forty Matyr's church. ; Jackdaw - 30+ - Circled low over estate then headed N toward Shepherd's Plantation.

Linacre Res: Mallard - 59 ; Black-headed Gull - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Moorhen - 14 ; Coot - 10 ; Mandarin - 26 ; Cormorant - 5