Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: 319 - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 100 - + ; Herring Gull - 4 - imm. ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Dunnock - 25 ; Robin - 25 ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Fieldfare - 20 - circa ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 - inc party 6 ; Chaffinch - 16 - 6sing ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr ; Reed Bunting - 16 - 4sing ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Brambling - 18 - +

Windy Corner: 319 - 2 ; Raven - 2 ; Curlew - 1 - 1 flying south over Howden Res ; Whooper Swan - 3 - 2 adults 1 juv on Howden Res ; Raven - 2 - Directly overhead. Flew to Ox Hey and landed. ; Goosander - 2 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair flew north ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - In trees behind raptor watchpoint ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; 319 - 8 - Up to 8 buzzards over Howden Res at various points. ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 - Female ; Woodpigeon - 2

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 20 - M&F

Aldwarke SF: Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1pr ; Magpie - Oct-15 ; 320 - Oct-15 ; Coot - 7 ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Reed Bunting - 2 - females, together ; Moorhen - 1 ; Shoveler - 06-Aug ; Kestrel - 1 - female, circling over ; Snipe - 1 ; Redwing - 4 ; Peregrine - 1 - adult over @ 1100hrs, settling on chimney on Liberty Steel site

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Stock Dove - 3 - flushed by arriving Peregrine

Baslow: Brambling - 1 - On sunflower feeder; second ever garden record

Burbage Rocks: Stonechat - 1 ; Raven - 1+ - heard calling

Dore: Reed Bunting - 1 - an occasional visitor to observer's garden at this time of year

Ecclesall: Brambling - 1 - In Ansell Road garden ; Common Gull - 1 - Flew E at 12:00 ; Tawny Owl - 2 - in Ansell Road garden ; Tawny Owl - 2 - in Ansell Road garden

Edge Mount: Lapwing - 41 - in sheep field . ; Skylark - 9 - all singing

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; 320 - 1+ ; 319 - 2 - Displaying. ; Dunnock - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males. ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Bullfinch - 9 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Treecreeper - 1 - In woodland near road

Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - on, by and under the feeders in observers' garden

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 - at feeders ; 324 - 1 - Peacock butterfly basking on house wall ; 324 - 1 - pipistrelle bat this evening

Gorrell Spring wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - on woodland edge ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling

Green Moor: Brambling - 20+ - Feeding on my lawn

Hoober Bank: Fieldfare - c190 - in treetops before leaving W ; Starling - c70 - with Fieldfares

Hoober Field Road: Goldfinch - 15 - flock, feeding in willow crop ; Song Thrush - 1

Hoober Hall Lane/Farm: Little Owl - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1pr ; Yellowhammer - 2 - singing

Hoober Hill: Skylark - 3 - inc one singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - over

Hoober Lane, Hoober: Goldcrest - 1pr - male singing from garden conifer ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1pr - male singing

Hoober Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 3 - Calling at 5am

Langsett: Red Grouse - 5+ ; 319 - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c5 - flying over ; Dunnock - c3 - singing males ; Robin - c5 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 10+ - Thickwoods area