Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 18 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Gadwall - 43 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Pochard - 4 ; Mallard - 2

Firsby Res: Mallard - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Fieldfare - 8 ; Redwing - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Hangingwater garden: Brambling - 3 - 2m & 1f visiting daily

Millhouses Lane garden: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - after perching in tree, flew round a couple of times, flew over and away over St Wifred’s School

Ravenfield Park: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Goldfinch - C50 - Feeding in treetops. ; Siskin - 3 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Chaffinch - 2 - Males on seed at entrance gate.

Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 1 - W @ 1035hrs ; Kestrel - 1 - W ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Rother Meadows: Wigeon - 32 - opposite Bolehil Flash ; Canada Goose - 86

Rother Valley CP: Smew - 1 - Drake on Meadowgate Lake favouring east side at 14:45

Silver Wood: Rook - 100+ - in fields to north of woods mid-morning

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - in scrubby woodland between steelworks and Stocksbridge bypass.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Mute Swan - 6 - ad inc.4left w ; Pink-footed Goose - 55 - circa flew e 0950 ; Canada Goose - 87 - inc 1 grey col feral ; Gadwall - 5 - 3f ; Pochard - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Coot - 80+ ; Lapwing - 200 ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Herring Gull - 5 - inc. 1s ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - ad came in ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Starling - 60+ - in fields ; House Sparrow - 5+

Totley Rise Garden: Brambling - 4 - Under and on the sunflower heart feeder.

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - 26 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Fieldfare - 126 - In field opersite.

Underbank Res: Raven - 2 - flying low over plantation near Clay Pits Lane.

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - c180 - on roofs, Warren St/President Park ; Herring Gull - c200 - Warren St/President Park

Broomhead Res: Crossbill - c30 ; Lesser Redpoll - 40 ; Goosander - 7 - 1m, 6f ; Raven - 2

Deepcar: Pintail - 1 - male flew upstream from Wharncliffe Wood area and settled on fishing pond adj to R Don

Graves Park: Redwing - c30

Heeley City Farm: 319 - 1 - drifted over heading north east

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 2 - Calling at 16:45

Longshaw: Mandarin - 17 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Male & female ; Brambling - 20+ - A number of largish flocks, mostly Bramblings

Middleton Moor: 320 - 16 ; Lapwing - 3

Miller*s Dale: Pink-footed Goose - c45 - West ar 13:15

Nether Edge: Blackcap - 1 - male Thornsett Road/Sharrow View ; Stock Dove - 1 - Crescent Road ; Treecreeper - 1 - on street trees Thornsett Road ; Nuthatch - 02-Mar - 1 calling Thornsett Road/Agden Road, probably another singing Thornsett Road, 1 calling St. Andrews Road ; Coal Tit - 2 - 1 Thornsett Road, 1 singing Crescent Road ; Bullfinch - c.4 - 1 Rundle Road, c.3 (including 1 singing) St. Andrews Road/Kenwood Road ; Jay - 3+ - Kenwood Hall Hotel - 2 seen, then lots of calling (sounded like at least 3) ; Redwing - 5+ - Crescent Road area ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Empire Road/Chippinghouse Road

R Don, Blonk St: Goosander - 5 - 3m 2f ; Kingfisher - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 2 - on Savile House roof

Rawmarsh: Common Gull - 1 - adult, S

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - c40 - in flight over middle res.

Redmires Top Res: Kestrel - 1 - one perched roadside

Rother Valley CP: Woodcock - 5 - in livestock fields at dusk

Stumperlowe: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in broad daylight

Ulley CP: Willow Tit - 1 - Calling near feeding station. ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - Over calling. ; Siskin - 3 - Over woodland.

Agden: Nuthatch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 5 - Feeders near site of Agden house ; Coal Tit - c10 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 3