Sightings Archive

Shillito Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Stocksbridge: Red-breasted Merganser - 2 - flew east at c.09:25

Stubbin, nr Rawmarsh; Back Lane: Black-headed Gull - c50 - in fields ; Kestrel - 1 - female, feeding on ground in tilled field ; Brambling - 5 - 3 + 2, all E ; Redwing - 10 - S ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - feeding together in tilled field ; Pheasant - 6 - all cocks ; Yellowhammer - 2 - W ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Fieldfare - c50 - 1 W, remainder S ; Skylark - 6

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 13 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Cormorant - 10+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 - inc.2ad3j ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 41 - +1 hybrid ; Canada Goose - 140+ ; Gadwall - 6 - 3m3f ; Shoveler - 1 - m ; Pochard - 18 - 15m3f ; Tufted Duck - 37 ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h ; Red-legged Partridge - 6 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Herring Gull - 57 - passing s in 2hrs ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - 2-1-1 s ; Skylark - 9 - all s ; Skylark - 9 - all s ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 54 - inc 40+s with f/f ; Fieldfare - 435 - parties past s inc.200 +in t/tops ; Blackbird - 19 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 23+ - in 4 parties

Ulley CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Mallard - 30+ ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair on dam wall. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male flew in front of boat club. ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 6

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 1 - Heard calling in observers garden

Agden Res: Mandarin - 113

Agden Side: Hawfinch - 1 - flew over, dropping towards Agden Res at 13:15 ; Sparrowhawk - 3 ; Kestrel - 3 ; 319 - 4 ; Brambling - 10 ; Fieldfare - C800 ; Woodpigeon - C1200

Brinsworth; Whitehill Lane: Kestrel - 1 - on roadside lamp post

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - 2 - on roadside trees

Damflask Res: Cormorant - 3

Fulwood: Buzzard sp - 1 - Headed steadily SW at 12:10. Looked long winged and long tailed, possibly Rough-legged.

Linacre Res: Little Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 21 ; Coot - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - 88 ; Mallard - 70 ; Tufted Duck - 34 ; 320 - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 47 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Raven - 1

Longshaw: Brambling - 50 - At least 50 in larger mixed finch flock containing smaller numbers of Chaffinch, Goldfinch etc. ; Redwing - 20 - at least 20 in mobile flock mixed with Fieldfare ; Fieldfare - 20

Loxley Chase: Common Buzzard - 4

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 1 - On garden feeder and Rowan tree ; Song Thrush - 3 - feeding on Rowan berries ; Redwing - 3 ; Fieldfare - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 5

Rushey wood: Willow Tit - 1 - Round the feeders.

Totley Bents: Willow Tit - 1 - at Dyson factory.

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 6

Wadsley Common: 327 - c60 - Loose flock around allotments on south side of common. ; Siskin - 12 ; Brambling - 6 - near allotments. ; Yellowhammer - 2

Windy Corner: Raven - 5 ; Peregrine - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 4 ; Goshawk - 1 - Imm prob female ; Woodpigeon - 2276 - South down the valley between 08.45 and 10..30

Chatsworth Park: Fieldfare - 30 ; Redwing - 50