Sightings Archive

Waverley: Woodcock - 2 - Flushed on what is left of this once great site. ; Snipe - 3
Woodhouse Washlands: Jack Snipe - 3 ; Snipe - 10

Crookes Valley Park: Herring Gull - 1 - First-winter on lake with BHGs; first time the species has been down on the water here. ; Moorhen - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 40
Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 1 - 1 male this am, up to 4 (3 males) in recent days ; Tufted Duck - 2 - 2 males
Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Females ; Goosander - 2 - Male and female ; Cormorant - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1
Millhouses: Redwing - 3 - In garden
R Derwent, Froggatt: Mandarin - 13 - Below Stoke Hall
Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Golden Plover - 29 - N @ 15.35
Rother Valley CP Main Lake: 321 - 8 ; Pochard - 12
Rother Valley CP Meadowgate: Little Egret - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; Wigeon - c.20 ; Lapwing - c.18
Silverwood Lagoon: Siskin - 2 ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Grey Partridge - 3 ; Goosander - 1 - male east at 08.45 ; Mute Swan - 3 - pair + imm. Lagoon still 90% iced-over ; Coot - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - c.50 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - west ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Skylark - 2 ; Jay - 4 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 10 ; Pheasant - c.20 ; Stock Dove - 1 - east
White Edge: Stonechat - 1

Darnall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - Littledale estate - heading west at dawn
Dore garden: Blackcap - 1 - female at fat ball feeder ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male ; Siskin - 1 - male
Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female back on lake ; Goldfinch - 20+ - A few flocks about ; Kestrel - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - By lake
Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 6 - 5 females,1 male
R Don, Effingham St: Sparrowhawk - 2
Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Goosander - 2 - E @ 12.00

Broomhead/Rushy Wood Feeders: Blue Tit - 5 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 - in conifers on bridle way ; Woodpigeon - 4
Dore garden: Blackcap - 1 - female at fat ball feeder
Elsecar Res: 320 - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Mallard - c80 - including one pair copulating.
Handsworth garden: Bullfinch - 5 - On feeders 3 males,one with "scaly feet".
Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 15 - in garden
Stone Moor/Stocksbridge: Red Grouse - 3 - perched on wall at side of road ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over Moor ; Rook - 40+ - Feeding in fields next to moor ; Starling - 50+ - Congregating on power lines at bottom of Long Lane ; Black-headed Gull - 7 - Overflying Fields
Thrybergh Res: Kingfisher - 1 - In Willows near Thrybergh Lane. ; Water Rail - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Female ; Tufted Duck - c58 ; Coot - c100 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10+ ; Magpie - 5 ; Blackbird - 15+ ; Robin - 7 ; Mallard - 18 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Pochard - c12 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goosander - 2 - Male and female. ; Cormorant - 6 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - c20 ; Black-headed Gull - 125+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mute Swan - 6 ; Greylag Goose - c80 ; Lapwing - c100 ; Common Gull - 1
Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 1 - in observers garden with tit flock