Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Chaffinch - 18 ; Goldfinch - 47+ ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Whooper Swan - 4 - 2 adults 2 juv @14:00hrs left East 15:11hrs flushed by individual trespassing up closed off dam wall path.

Treeton Dyke: Goosander - 13 - mixed group displaying and calling. ; Water Rail - 1

Wentworth; Barrow Field: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, mobbed by corvid @ c1315hrs

West Nab: Golden Plover - 63 - flew into field opposite farm ; Lapwing - 2 ; Curlew - 1 - calling now and then

Bingham Park: Grey Heron - 1 - Immature ; Jay - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 80+

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 70 plus - mobile flock of 70 plus at 0740

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1

Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Jay - 1 - Mobbed by 2 Magpies ; 320 - 2 - Male & female ; Mandarin - 5 - Males & females

Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 2 - Male & female

Heeley City Farm: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - flew east at 15:25

Highfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - in trees off Myrtle road for about 5 minutes before heading off east.

Hudson*s Rough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Magpie - 1+

Kiveton Community Woodland: Snipe - 4 - in adjacent field ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; 327 - 30+ - Lesser Redpoll ; Siskin - 2+ - mixed in with the Redpoll flock

Middleton Moor: 320 - 15

Monsal Head: Marsh Tit - 1 - On feeders

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Rook - c50 - feeding in young cereal crop at dawn ; Jackdaw - c25 - with Rooks ; Black-headed Gull - 50-60 ; Stock Dove - 7 - feeding together ; Redwing - 1 - W ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Jay - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Woodpigeon - c360 - SE (post-roost?), 0730-0800hrs

Orgreave Lakes: Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from area between two bridges.

Porter Valley: Woodpigeon - 3 ; Magpie - 3 ; Mallard - 50+ - On pond below shepherds wheel

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult on Stevenson Road am ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult again at lunchtime. ; Linnet - c20

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 27 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Wigeon - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 17 - 14m3f ; Tufted Duck - 56 ; Goldeneye - 1 ; Water Rail - 3 - usual 2-- 1on suet pellets-1 on warburtons brown ; Moorhen - 15 ; Peregrine - 1 - s in fog @1015 ; Black-headed Gull - 160 - + ; Herring Gull - 1 - 1 1st w ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - east ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Blackbird - 61 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 12 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 1 - Male on feeders for forth day. ; Goldfinch - 20

Wire Mill Dam: Mallard - 20+ - equal numbers of male and females ; Coot - 1 ; Robin - 1 - In woods below the dam ; Jay - 4 - In woods below dam ; Dipper - 1 - In stream below cottages near dam feeding

Brownhills Lane: 319 - one ; Greylag Goose - 19

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 30 - flock of c 30

Deepcar garden: Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 - feeding on sunflower hearts ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 5 ; Jackdaw - 06-Jul ; Collared Dove - 7