Sightings Archive

Parkgate Canal Basin: Whooper Swan - 1 - resident bird with MS herd ; Black-headed Gull - c200

Ranmoor: Pink-footed Goose - c50 - Flying NW at 10:00

Ravenfield: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting next to moor lane south.

Rother Valley CP: Cormorant - 24 ; Grey Heron - 12 ; Goosander - 25 ; 320 - 120 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Goldeneye - 5 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Adult winter on Meadowgate Lake mid-afternoon. Magic Eye photo ; Pintail - 1 - Drake on Meadowgate Lake mid-afternoon.

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 22 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Skylark - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - north ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 90

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 9 ; Canada Goose - 90 ; Gadwall - 5 - 2m, 3f ; Shoveler - 9 - 6m, 3f ; Wigeon - 1 - m ; 320 - 12 ; Pochard - 7 - m ; Tufted Duck - 78 ; Pintail - 1 - m circled 0930 left s 0935 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 200+ - on dam ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Robin - 20 ; Fieldfare - 3 - 3 left n ; Great Tit - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 02-Feb ; House Sparrow - 2+ ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 11 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 18 ; Greylag Goose - 150 - #NAME? ; Canada Goose - 40 - + inc 1white streak black feral ; Gadwall - 6 - 3pr ; Pochard - 6 - 2f ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; 319 - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 100 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Herring Gull - 12 - inc.7-1-1 all s ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - s ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Brambling - 6 - 4m2f

Upperdale: 320 - 4 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Marsh Tit - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; Dipper - 2

Wadsley Common garden: Common Gull - 5 - Flew through garden then headed north over Common. First garden record in 22 years of recording.

Wardlow: Pink-footed Goose - 213 - tracked moving ESE over Tideswell, Wardlow and Middleton Moor 10:30-10:40

Woolley Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - ad sat in trees - appeared to have roosted ; Magpie - 6 ; Jay - 1 ; Blackbird - 8 ; Redwing - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - m+f prospecting ; Robin - 3 ; Blue Tit - 17 ; Great Tit - 9 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Goldcrest - 5 ; Nuthatch - 9 ; Treecreeper - 3

Wortley: Greenfinch - 100+ - In mixed flock of finches ; Linnet - 100+ - In mixed finch flock

Bramley: Chaffinch - 1 - Female coming to garden feeders. ; Greenfinch - 6 - With other finches on feeders. ; Goldfinch - 6

Cinder Bridge Field: Kestrel - 1 - hunting over roadside ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over road @ c1400hrs; left S

Ecclesfield Park: Black-headed Gull - 103 - On football pitch. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult over North-West.

Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 - Pair on main Res. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 5 - On wires over farmland. ; Bullfinch - 6