Sightings Archive

Midhope Moor: Golden Plover - 3 - Flew low over moor ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; 324 - 3 - Mountain Hare with white pelage. Two near Pike Low, the other on slopes above Mickleden Beck.

Midhope Res: Curlew - 4 - In field off Shaw Lane ; Lapwing - 2 ; Greylag Goose - c5 ; Crossbill - 1 - male in top of willow tree where Shaw Brook enters res.

Millhouses: 319 - 2 - Pair soaring over Springfield Rd..

Millhouses Garden: Brambling - 2 - Females in Stowe Avenue garden

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Yellowhammer - 2 - males (one singing) ; Common Buzzard - 01-Feb - 1 E @ 1115hrs; 1 W later ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

R Derwent, Calver Mill: Dipper - 1

R Derwent, Grindleford: 321 - 1 - over

R Derwent, Leadmill: Mandarin - 13 - In various places between Leadmill and Shatton.

Rawmarsh; Birch Wood: Nuthatch - 2 ; Redwing - 40-50 - in treetops; noisy subsong in sunshine ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh; Collier Brook marsh: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Mallard - 1pr - flew in ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing from adjacent pylon

Rawmarsh; Sandhill Park/Collier Brook: Song Thrush - 8 - inc 3 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 18+ ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling

Rawmarsh; Victoria Park: Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Redmires Plantation: Red Kite - 1 - low over plantation flying north at 09:30

Redmires Top Res: Golden Plover - 18 - at edge of water with about 150 Lapwing ; Lapwing - 215 - Late afternoon ; Golden Plover - 34 - Late afternoon

Rivelin Res: Cormorant - 1 ; Goosander - 1 ; Mallard - 10

Silverwood Lagoon: Green Woodpecker - 1 - 'yaffling' in SW paddocks

Small Dale, Bradfield Moors: Golden Plover - 3 - At least three birds on ground calling. ; Raven - 2 - Two birds together working the moors ; Kestrel - 3 - Three birds over moors with two M/F together at one point calling. ; Crossbill - 5 - Group of 5 birds being very vocal at Thornseat Quarry. Single birds calling above Hollingdale wood. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Single bird above old Holling Dale Plantation. ; Lapwing - 1 - Single bird calling above grass field at Thornseats Delf.

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Canada Goose - 24 - Late afternoon ; Greylag Goose - 25 - Late afternoon

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 21 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 14 ; Canada Goose - 17 - 1 feral grey ; Gadwall - 4 - 2pr ; Pochard - 6 - m ; Water Rail - 3 ; Moorhen - 14 ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Black-headed Gull - 300+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 50 - mostly leaving south ; Little Owl - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 25 ; Song Thrush - 5 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 - +inc party 5+ ; Chaffinch - 11 - 5 singing ; Brambling - 20+ ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 16 - inc 13 at feeders ; Yellowhammer - 3

Wadsley: Waxwing - 7 - Sat high in their usual tree on Vainor Road, just below Milden Road junction.

Warren Vale LNR: Treecreeper - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Jay - 1

Big Moor: Kestrel - 2

Dale Dyke: Crossbill - 3 - low W ; Raven - 2

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 11 - at 08:20

Froggatt Edge: Lesser Redpoll - 10+ ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - m

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 18 - at feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Feral Pigeon - 20 - highest count here

Graves Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - 2 birds drumming. ; Treecreeper - 2 - Two birds in territorial dispute which ended with them having a fight on the ground.

Green Moor: Brambling - 8+ ; Brambling - 8+ - photo