Sightings Archive

Norfolk Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1+ - male seen ; Tawny Owl - 1 - female calling

Pebley Pond: Goosander - 3 - 2m + 1f ; Tufted Duck - 17 ; Cormorant - 13 ; Grey Heron - 2

Pit-house West: Water Rail - 3+ - Single "sharming" by the Bittern Pool and at least two upstream from the Chinese Bridge. ; Willow Tit - 2+ - One near the Chinese Bridge and one or two calling west of the Bittern Pool.

Sharrow: Waxwing - 25 - Cemetery Avenue at 08:45 ; Waxwing - 22 - ar 11:00 ; Redwing - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 15+ - Cemetery Ave

Silver Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 'drumming' in strip of woodland south of Hollings Lane

St Mary*s Gate: Woodpigeon - 5+ - perched in trees along A61 and nearby ; Redwing - about 6 - in tree top near Decathlon store ; Feral Pigeon - 20 - 30 - perched on roofs and flying ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Magpie - 6 - x3 pairs ; House Sparrow - 10+ - much vocalising from shrubs adjacent to St Mary's Church and in nearby gardens ; Blue Tit - 2+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 21 ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 150+ ; Canada Goose - 100+ ; Gadwall - 12 - inc.8 in ; Pochard - 3 - mmf ; Tufted Duck - 41 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 8 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 100 ; Black-headed Gull - 150+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 - inc.2s ; Great Black-backed Gull - 6 - inc.3w1w2s ; Little Owl - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 16 ; Robin - 20 ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 21 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Blue Tit - 14 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14+ - in 2 flocks ; Jackdaw - 11 - inc.2s7s2s ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Bullfinch - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Brambling - 12 - prob 9m3f

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 ; Brambling - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 2 - Possible dispute before 1 visited probable nest site

Agden: 327 - c50 - flock in birches near former site of Agden House

Agden Res: Crossbill - 1 - solitary male calling from top of ash tree on Smallfield Lane

Aldwarke: Woodcock - 3 ; Linnet - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - male

Bolehill Flash: BEARDED TIT - 2 - still present, calling occasionally and female seen ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - called briefly twice late morning ; Water Rail - 1 ; Brambling - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 15

Botanical Gardens: Peregrine - 1 - over then over Westbourne Road

Broomhill: Sparrowhawk - 1 - adult female hunting Westbourne Road ; Stock Dove - 1 - over Westbourne Road

City Rd Cemetery: Brambling - 6+ - 6 poss up to 8 birds in mixed and mobile Finch/Thrush flock 10:00. ; Goldfinch - 30+ ; Redwing - 60+ ; Starling - 40+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Damflask Res: Brambling - c30 - in stand of beeches on southern bank

Greno Wood: 319 - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling during daylight ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Blue Tit - 3+ ; Goldcrest - 4+ ; Robin - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Stoat ; Kestrel - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 100+ - feeding on Beech mast

Morehall tip / R.Don: Long-tailed Tit - 37 - single flock feeding in riverside alders . ; Blue Tit - 2 - with L.t .t. ; Mallard - 28 - on river. ; Dipper - 2 - having territorial dispute . ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Jackdaw - c250 - circling high above Wharncliffe side pre roost ?.

Moss Valley: Kestrel - 1 - Plumbley Hall Farm

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 7 ; Goosander - 18 - Lots of display.