Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Herring Gull - 7 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Dunnock - 15 - 2sing ; Robin - 18 ; Redwing - 60 - + ; Fieldfare - 20 - + ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - + ; House Sparrow - 10 - #NAME? ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Feral Pigeon - 200 - circa

Ulley Res: Mandarin - 1 - Drake in Morthern arm ; Kingfisher - 1 - Morthern arm ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - On E bank of Ulley arm at 12:55, best of a poor bunch of pics obtained using mobile phone and 8x40 bins.

Wadsley Bridge: Redwing - 30+ - feeding & resting in trees

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 2 - m+f

Aldwarke SF: Song Thrush - 4 ; Pheasant - 5 ; Mallard - 2prs ; Moorhen - 4 ; 320 - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - females ; Shoveler - 1 - drake ; Chiffchaff - 1 - typical collybita ; Redwing - c15

Brecks Lane: Pheasant - 6

Brecks Lane; Windyridge: Kestrel - 1 - male on telegraph pole ; Redwing - 1

Brecks; Bank Top Road: Goldfinch - 20-25 - feeding in ornamental birches

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 26

Ecclesall Woods: 321 - 1 - Donkey Field Pond

Gibbing Greave Wood: Coal Tit - 1

Handsworth: Siskin - 1 - 1st bird of the winter on the garden feeders and Santa had given it a shiny new ring to wear.

Herringthorpe Wood: Nuthatch - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Jay - 1 - Great Bank ; Goldcrest - 2

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 8 - 4+4 on pond this am.

Millhouses Sheaf Valley Walk: Goldfinch - 70+ - pre-roost gathering.

Norton Lees garden: Chaffinch - 1f ; Long-tailed Tit - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 3 - 2 drakes ; Lapwing - 92

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 3+ - - wet, miserable but mercifully free of 'photographers' ; Chaffinch - 8+ ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4+ ; Yellowhammer - 5+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 fem ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Blue Tit - 8+ ; Great Tit - 4+ ; Coal Tit - 8+ ; Nuthatch - 1

Thrybergh: Tawny Owl - 2 - calling in disused railway cutting adjacent to the Thrybergh bar mill liberty steel after dusk.

Thrybergh CP: Brambling - 1 - In trees left of feeder hide

Green Moor: Greenfinch - 6 - Largest count in a while here ; Tree Sparrow - 2

Hangingwater allotments: Redwing - c.10

Hangingwater garden: Brambling - 3 - 2m & 1 f ; Brambling - 3 - another photo

Kimberworth Park: Pied Wagtail - 1 - Oaks Lane nr shops

Langsett: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1

Langsett Res: 320 - 52 - this afternoon ; Mallard - 91 ; Crossbill - several heard ; Herring Gull - 6 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - briefly ; Common Gull - 55 ; Black-headed Gull - 930+

Middleton Moor: Little Owl - 1

Millhouses: Blackcap - 1 - Male feeding on fat balls and Holly berries in Stowe Avenue garden ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - 6 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Starling - 7

Millhouses Park: 319 - 1

Nether Edge Garden: Blackbird - 4 ; Magpie - 2 ; Goldfinch - 15+ ; Great Tit - 2 ; House Sparrow - 20+ ; Dunnock - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Robin - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1