Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Moorhen - 12+ ; Dunlin - 1 - on front ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Robin - 16 - at least 7 taking suet pellets ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Blackbird - 23+ ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Tit - 9 ; Blue Tit - 15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 26+ - in 3 flocks ; House Sparrow - 8+ ; Tree Sparrow - 2+ - on feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Greenfinch - 11 ; Bullfinch - 13 - 06/05/2002 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Brambling - 1 - m

Ulley Res: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 10+ - Inc Bird sat at bottom of concrete sluice. Unwell? ; Greylag Goose - 12+ ; Mallard - 30+ ; Tufted Duck - 20+ ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair near dam wall. ; Coot - 8+ ; Moorhen - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over sheep paddock. ; Chaffinch - 3 - 2 M, 1 F coming to seed on fence. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Barbrook Filters: Stonechat - 1

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 45 - Feeding on filters

Chapeltown Park: Brambling - 4+ - Small flock west of playground.

Cressbrook Mill: Kingfisher - 1

Fox Hill: Redwing - 20+ ; Greenfinch - 4

Graves Park: Brambling - c30? - Hard to count as moving around; also, it could have been a mixed flock, but definitely identified some Bramblings

Handsworth garden: Goldfinch - 11 - On and around feeder's ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m 1f on feeder's

Heeley: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing at Carrfield Road/Richards Road junction ; Redwing - 4 - Richards Road

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Common Gull - 9

Nether Edge: Blackcap - 1 - Female

Norfolk Park garden: House Sparrow - 20+ ; Magpie - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 2 - Regular visitors to bird feeders and inspecting nest box in garden.

RVCP, Fishing Lake: Smew - 1 - Redhead still present this morning

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 3+ - at least 2 males and at least 1 female; at one point the three were all together ; Yellowhammer - 4+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Coal Tit - 3+ ; Reed Bunting - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 4+ ; Pheasant - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over a nearby field ; 319 - 2 - over Far Lane

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 1 - male still regular at garden feeders

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1

Station road,Ecclesfield.: 327 - 62 - In birch and alder trees 70m west on transpennine trail.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 115 - in from n ; Gadwall - 7 - 4m3f ; Wigeon - 6 - 3pr ; Pochard - 5 - 1f ; Tufted Duck - 65 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 80 - + ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - s ; Little Owl - 1 - repoted ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Rook - 3 - 1s2s ; Brambling - 3 - mff ; Chaffinch - 16 ; Goldfinch - 40 - #NAME? ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Bullfinch - 7 ; Reed Bunting - 6

Agden Res: Brambling - 1

Aston: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from telegraph pole on Wentworth Avenue at 3am

Beeley Wood: Dipper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Broomhead Res: Crossbill - 5+

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 6 ; 320 - 4