Sightings Archive

Chatsworth Park: Brambling - 9 - Associating with redwings and fieldfares ; Pied Wagtail - 18

Crookes Valley Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - By lake ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Adults at lake with BHGs - unusual here

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mute Swan - 4 - 1 new metal ring male ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Females ; Goosander - 3 - 2M + 1F ; Moorhen - 11 ; Coot - 6 ; Mallard - 48 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 48

Hudson*s Rough: Grey Heron - 1 - Leaving pond side @ 09:55. ; Pheasant - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 4+ ; Redwing - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Kimberworth Park: Grey Heron - 1 - W nr Scholes Coppice @ 09:25

Norwood Allotments: Snipe - 4 - over south at 10:30. First record here. ; Redwing - 25 - over south ; Fieldfare - 90+ - including a flock of c80 south at 13:00

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - 60 - Flew north at 08:30 ; COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 1 - At least 1 among Lesser Redpolls in area between bridges. ; ARCTIC REDPOLL - 1 - Possible Coues Arctic Redpoll seen twice briefly between bridges among Lesser Redpolls ; Lesser Redpoll - c.200 ; Siskin - 3 ; Stonechat - 1 - Male below tip ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Below big hill

Poolsbrook CP: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - With 2 Greylag Geese

RVCP, Main Lake: 322 - 2 - a pair Black Swans ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - a pair

RVCP, River Rother: Little Egret - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Green Woodpecker - 1 - first one here for months and only a handful of sightings this year - seems to have got very, very scarce locally all of a sudden

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 11 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 10+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 20 - inc.beige/ white hybrid ; Canada Goose - 126 ; Gadwall - 7 - 2m,5f ; 320 - 3 - left ? ; Pochard - 16 - 15m,1f ; Tufted Duck - 62 ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h ; 319 - 2 - in field ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 100 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Little Egret - 1 - south at 0750 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Dunnock - 14 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 20+ ; Fieldfare - 120+ - inc 80s,25s ; Blackbird - 22 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 30+ - inc parties 12 & 8+ ; Jackdaw - 15 - 10se5e ; Chaffinch - 11 - around site ; Siskin - 1 - e ; Bullfinch - 2 - f ; Reed Bunting - 3

Agden Res: Cormorant - 1 ; Mandarin - 79 - Lined up along the south side of the narrowing top end of the reservoir. ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flushed 100+ Woodpigeons from woodland further up the valley ; Fieldfare - 15+ - in trees around the feeding station. ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Finch sp - 50+ - Roving mixed finch flock around the area near to feeding station

Brownhills Lane: 319 - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 3 ; Mallard - 3 ; 320 - 2+ - Calling at dawn. ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling in distance at dawn. ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 20+ - Coming out of roost. ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Bullfinch - 10+

Grange Golf Course: Fieldfare - c30 - Roving group plus small numbers with Redwings ; Redwing - c40 - Small groups throughout area

Hillsborough: Fieldfare - 6+ - flying back and forth over Penistone Rd from Hillsborough Park to berry bearing trees at the Leisure Centre

Holmebrook Valley Park: Goosander - 2 - Male and female