Sightings Archive

Kilnhurst Riverside: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Sitting on vegetation just outside window & then flying on to windowsill & ‘looking in’ ( looking at their reflection?). Same behaviour observed yesterday.

R Don, Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 3 - adult on river; 2 adults SW @ 0925hrs ; Moorhen - 4 ; Mallard - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Bullfinch - 1

R Don, Stevenson Road: Great Black-backed Gull - c40 - including colour ringed 2w bird ringed in 2016 as a chick in Vest-Agder, Norway

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: 321 - 1 - SW ; Cormorant - 3 - SW ; Mute Swan - 2 - S ; Golden Plover - 9 - N ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - N

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 10 - no sign of wf goose ; Canada Goose - 74 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Pochard - 6 - m ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 150+ ; Common Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 18 ; Robin - 26 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Chaffinch - 13 ; Bullfinch - 14 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1

Thrybergh; Doncaster Road: Peregrine - 1 - over road at treetop height, from direction of TCP & heading towards Thrybergh Tip @ 0920hrs

Beauchief Gardens: Mandarin - 18 - (different birds to 7 on Tyzack's Dam) ; Moorhen - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Blackamoor: 327 - 150-200 - At least two Common Redpoll. ; Crossbill - 2

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 14 - on grassy bank near former dam-keeper's house

Edgemount: Yellowhammer - 23 - In fields to north of Lumb Lane

Firsby Res: 320 - 2+ - Calling from up stream. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing in small clear spot in the ice. ; Tawny Owl - 3 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting at dawn. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male., ; Red-legged Partridge - 9 - In set aside field. ; Jay - 2 ; Magpie - 9 - Flew from roost at first light. ; Fieldfare - 20+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Robin - 2 - Singing. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - 20+

Hangingwater garden: Bullfinch - 1 - m ; Siskin - 3 - 2m + 1f

High Storrs: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Briefly perched in garden tree.

Loxley Valley: Goosander - 1 - male on Olive Wheel Dam

Millhouses Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1+ - 1 singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+

Norton Lees garden: Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - in garden ; Song Thrush - 1 - rare garden visitor these days

Thrybergh CP: White-fronted Goose - 1 - back in with Greylags in field then on to water ; Greylag Goose - 45 ; Canada Goose - 50 ; Water Rail - 2

Tyzack*s Dam: Mandarin - 7 ; Coot - 2

Aldwarke SF: Mute Swan - 7 - SW between 0735-0915hrs ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Mallard - 12 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - giving loud, piercing 'sweeoo' calls; not seen well.

Baslow: Redwing - 80 - Mixed flock with fieldfare ; Fieldfare - 40 - With redwings

Baslow SF: Pied Wagtail - 43 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - 4 - Feeding in willow/bramble scrub

Crowhole: Kingfisher - 1