Sightings Archive

Broomhead Hall: Fieldfare - 70 - c.

Broomhead Res: Black-headed Gull - 1000 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 10 - c. roosted ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at dusk ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 5m + 1f

Dore: Stock Dove - 1 - feeding below bird feeders in observer’s garden

Firsby Res: Mallard - 4 - Main Res. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Greylag Goose - 40+ - Over towards TCP. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Redwing - 20+ ; Chaffinch - 1

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 2 - Roosting together ; Tree Sparrow - 7+

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 3 - 2M,1F in observer's garden ; Redwing - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 2 - m & f ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Dunnock - 2

Killamarsh: Mandarin - 1 ; Little Egret - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 30

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 700 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 5 - c. roosted

Limb Valley: Goldcrest - 1

Loxley: Stonechat - 2 - male and female on Myers Lane.

Nether Edge: Goldcrest - 1 - flying a metre above the pavement along a vegetationless stretch of Abbeydale Road before turning to land in the nearest tree on Southcroft Gardens

Old Ravenfield: Herring Gull - 17 ; Skylark - 5 ; Linnet - 2

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 50

R Don, Ickles: Goosander - 1 - drake ; Mute Swan - 1pr

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 25+ ; Stock Dove - 15+ - Down on farmland. ; Jackdaw - 4+ ; Jay - 1 - Calling from woodland. ; Goldcrest - 8 ; 319 - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blue Tit - 1pr - investigating nestbox

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - c80 ; 320 - c30

Redmires Res: Lapwing - 80 - c. ; Mallard - 10 - c. ; Kestrel - 2 - juvs ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - over Soughley Lane ; Reed Bunting - 1 - by Middle Res ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2 males & a female in Fairthorn Clough ; Greylag Goose - 87 - in fields on Soughley Lane

Redmires Top Res: Green Woodpecker - 1 - heard not seen

Shillito Wood: Siskin - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male

Totley: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - Single male at feeders

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - c50 - Warren St, inc 3A2B ringed Notts in 2012 ; Herring Gull - c150

Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden on Ansell Road

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Moorhen - 3 - Main Res. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Male near cottage, other calling in willows. ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Redwing - 4 - On cottage hedge. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male in set aside field.

Froggatt: 319 - 2

Froggatt Edge: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in woods under the Edge

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female in observer's garden ; Blackcap - 2 - Males ; Song Thrush - 1

Harthill Res: Grey Plover - 5 ; Lapwing - 22 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Longshaw: Mallard - c36 - on pond ; Mandarin - 40+

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - male again at fatball feeder

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w in pre-roost. Different bird to Warrren St yesterday, no pale bill base. ; Great Black-backed Gull - c50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 ; Herring Gull - c200 ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Common Gull - 2 - ad & 1w

R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 1 - female

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 320 - c. roosted ; Herring Gull - 10 - roosting amongst BHGs ; Lapwing - 70 - c. over Middle Res

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 14 - 5M, 3F on Frank Wheel Dam, plus 3 pairs on R Rivelin nearby

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 1 - Calling in tree tops. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - Down on farmland. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Juv over.