Sightings Archive

Chatsworth Park: Cormorant - 1 ; Coot - 23 - In front of House ; Redwing - 30+

Crookes: Waxwing - 3 - Still present in School Road tree at 08:00 this morning ; Waxwing - 3 - Mobile birds at top of School Rd flying back and forth to tree next to St Thomas church

Edge Mount: Raven - 2 - heading west ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - hunting over rough pasture .

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 2 - Seen and very vocal

Hathersage Moor: Wren - 1

Higger Tor: Wren - 1 - In bracken at base of Higger Tor

Howden Res: PARROT CROSSBILL - 5+ - usual area on the edge of Ronksley South Plantation. However, not seen to drink from the puddle at all mid-late morning; possibly effected by portable photographic hide placed right next to it? ; Crossbill - 20-25 - with Parrot Crossbills at Ronksley South Plantation

Kilnhurst: Brambling - 1 - Female under feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 - Visiting feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1

Middleton Moor: Common Gull - 40 ; Black-headed Gull - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

Onesmoor: Golden Plover - c200 ; Skylark - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Sparrowhawk - 1

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: 319 - 2 - mobbed by crows.

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - usual 2cy in for brief bath at 15:40

Rawmarsh: Lapwing - 160 - N @ 16.35

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Woodpigeon - 1pr - copulating

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 1 - N @ 16.10 ; Pink-footed Goose - 60 - W @ 15.35 ; Black-headed Gull - 274 - N in 1.5 hrs ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - N

Redmires: Pink-footed Goose - c130 - flew over west at 11:40

Silver Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - 1 drumming in main woods, 1 drumming in strip of woodland south of Hollings Lane ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Skylark - c.15 - in field bordering approach track to Pingle Lane Tip, including two singing birds ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ - with Skylarks

Silverwood Lagoon: Shoveler - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 90 ; Common Gull - 3 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 5 - one singing ; Rook - 10 - in fields to west ; Snipe - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Goldfinch - c.20 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.20 - two parties ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing in Hollings Lane sidings

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 3 - Kestrel - 1, Yellow hammer - 5

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 17 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Barnacle Goose - 1 - came in with 41 canada ; Canada Goose - 72 - inc.23-41 inform n ; Gadwall - 7 - 4m3f ; Shoveler - 2 - m ; Pochard - 10 - 9m1f ; Tufted Duck - 36 - inc.10 in from w ; 319 - 2 - flew e ; Water Rail - 2 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 80 ; Lapwing - 300 - inc.160 in from n ; Black-headed Gull - 80 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 13 ; Robin - 24 - 13sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Fieldfare - 50 - + ; Redwing - 6 - #NAME? ; Blackbird - 18 ; Great Tit - 13 - 4sing ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - 05-Feb ; Rook - 1 - past n ; Chaffinch - 13 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Bullfinch - 20 - inc 14 9m5f at feed stat. ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 3

Totley: Pink-footed Goose - 200+ - over Totley heading NW @ 11:30

Wyming Brook: Treecreeper - 1 - on feeder

Canklow Woods: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting below Boston Castle at 19:10

Crookes: Waxwing - 3 - still present this morning on School Road Crookes in tree outside no 297 ; Waxwing - 3 - 3 birds (2 adults and a first winter) perched in large tree at 297 School Road, commuting to feed at 326 School Road.

Ecclesall: Skylark - 1 - flew N calling over Ansell Road at 11:10 hrs

Gleadless: Grey Heron - 1 - again attempting to land on pond in Myrtle Springs est 15:30.

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male