Sightings Archive

Graves Park: Mandarin - 7+m, 3+f - On top lake

Holmebrook Valley Park: Common Gull - 1 - On raft with Black-Headed Gulls ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - Starting to get breeding plumage. ; Cormorant - 2 - On raft ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Heard

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - C2000 ; Common Gull - 82 ; Common Gull - 82

Low moor lane: Fieldfare - C60

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 1 ; Lapwing - 15 ; Mallard - 7 ; 320 - 4 ; Coot - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 11

Millhouses Lane garden: Stock Dove - 2 - later 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Goldfinch - 4+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - several feeding visits to suet balls ; Bullfinch - 4+ - 2+ males, 2+females

Norton Lees: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flying over Warminster Road

Ravenfield: Kestrel - 1 - F perched opposite dumpit site entrance.

Ravenfield Church: Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male.

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 133 - Single flock in rough field ; Golden Plover - 7 - Loosely associating with Lapwings ; Pheasant - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing late afternoon

Redmires Top Res: Curlew - 2 - Late afternoon; flushed by photographer from shoreline and circled to dusk, calling ; Black-headed Gull - 19 - Roosted ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Adults dropped in late afternoon but departed before dusk

Ridgeway: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting in field above vicarage restaurant

Rivelin Valley: Little Owl - 2 - Pair at usual site on Coppice Farm

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 17 ; Greylag Goose - 10 ; Canada Goose - 173 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Cormorant - 22 ; Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 173 ; Gadwall - 28 ; Wigeon - 191 ; 320 - 38 ; Tufted Duck - 62 ; Pochard - 73 ; Goosander - 22 ; Goldeneye - 20 ; Coot - 215 ; Moorhen - 35 ; Lapwing - 12 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Redshank - 1 ; Herring Gull - 22 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 93 ; Green Woodpecker - 1

RVCP, Fishing Lake: Goldeneye - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+

RVCP, Main Lake: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Grey Heron - 6 ; Wigeon - 80+

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Goldeneye - 6 ; Redwing - 20 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Cormorant - 11 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Goosander - 6 ; 320 - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Pochard - 12

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Goldfinch - 8+

Street Lane, Freeman*s/Luke Spring: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1225hrs

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 3 - 3 came for food again

Barbrook Pools: Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Stonechat - 1 - male

Cinder Hills: Woodpigeon - 150+ ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+

Endcliffe Park: Dipper - 2 - Next to Hunters' bar at 7:15

Leash Fen: Jack Snipe - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - sitting on post out in the middle of the fen.

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 1pr displaying ; Mallard - 50+ ; 319 - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 3