Sightings Archive

Sunday 28th January 2018

• Aldwarke SF: Long-tailed Tit - 13+ - flock
• Blackburn Meadows NR: Song Thrush - 2 - Singing 08.20 ; Goosander - 3 - 2 male, ! female on canal. ; Cormorant - 1 - canal. ; Bullfinch - 4 - 1 pair nr Jordan Lock 08.50. 1 pair on reserve. ; Snipe - 7 ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 - Juvenile, canal 08:50.
• Centenary Riverside: Cormorant - 9 - 5 W + 2 onto river; 2 NE ; Song Thrush - 6 - inc 4 singing along river within 50m of eachother ; Goosander - 1 - drake on river ; Mallard - 6prs - on river ; Moorhen - 2 - calling ; Mute Swan - 1 - in from N, circled & left NW @ 0824hrs ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults, W ; 320 - present - drakes heard calling from typha; water levels very high after recent flooding of site due to heavy rain.
• Chatsworth Park: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - still with the Canada Geese, by the River Derwent. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Redwing - c. 30
• Damflask Res: Mandarin - 26 - Group of 24 + pair
• Fitzwilliam Canal, Parkgate: Bullfinch - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 2prs ; Goldfinch - c10
• Forge Dam: 320 - 3 - 2m 1f
• Greystones: Blackcap - 1 - Female in observer's garden
• Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 6 ; Canada Goose - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Coot - 18 ; Moorhen - 6 ; Mallard - 24 ; Gadwall - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 28 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 120 - c. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Skylark - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 ; House Sparrow - 2 ; Blackbird - 11 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Yellowhammer - 2
• Hathersage: 319 - 2
• Ladybower Res, West arm: Goosander - 4 - 1m, 3 redhead
• Nitticarhill: Chaffinch - 20
• Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - In car park near Chesterman Building
• Old Ravenfield: Mallard - 4 - 2 pair on small Res. ; Cormorant - 1 - Flew from in front on sluice reedbed. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Main Res. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - On wires. ; 319 - 2 - Circling in distance. ; Woodcock - 1 ; Magpie - 8 ; Jay - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Inc singing bird near Old quarry. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 250+ - Very large flock flushed from surrounding farnland. ; Blackbird - 6 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Dunnock - 2
• Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter Caspian Gull currently on Big Lake. Looks like the Attercliffe bird ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter still present at 10:20 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2nd winter among Herring Gulls and Caspian Gull ; Stonechat - 2 - Female in plantation at northern end of Small Lake and another in plantation on western side of Big Lake.
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - c70 ; Mute Swan - 67 - inc 17 2cy ; Herring Gull - 8 - max; taking advantage of swan feeding time ; Black-headed Gull - c100
• Pebley Pond: Mute Swan - 5
• Poolsbrook Marsh: Tufted Duck - 6 ; Herring Gull - 20 - flew S ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - c.
• Porter Brook: Grey Wagtail - 1 - in leaf litter by Brookhouse Hill bridge
• R Don, Rotherham; Grafton Bridge: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 1 - 2cy in middle of A633, blocking traffic @ 0735hrs; Manhandled & returned safely to river. ; Goldcrest - 1
• Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 1 - SW ; Canada Goose - 4 - NW @ 08.20 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - N ; Herring Gull - 6 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - S
• Redmires Conduit: Lapwing - c40 - Flew over but 4 settled in horse fields.
• Sheffield Airport: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter late afternoon,the Attercliffe bird.
• Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - up to 8 ; Reed Bunting - up to 5