Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Starling - 75+ - inc 50+ and 24 west ; Bullfinch - 8 - 02/04/2002

Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 1 - Female under feeders.

Wharncliffe Wood: Common Buzzard - 2

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 15 ; 320 - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 ; 319 - 1 - Hunting worms ; Kestrel - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1

Graves Park: Pintail - 1 - Female among Mallards and Tufted Ducks

Green Moor: Whooper Swan - 20 - c20 over SE at 10:05

Hammond*s Field: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling and mobbed by Kestrel ; Kestrel - 1 - Hovering over rough pasture

Millhouses Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - N at 07:45 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - One singing, usual territory in NE corner of the park. ; Long-tailed Tit - 33+ - Two parties of 21 and at least 12. ; Goldcrest - 4+

Old Ravenfield: Grey Wagtail - 1

Onesmoor: Golden Plover - 200+

Orgreave Lakes: TWITE - 1 - single among the very mobile Linnet flock. ; TWITE - 1 - Among linnets in area where the weedy mound was. ; TWITE - 1 - Photo ; Little Egret - 1 - On small lake mid-morning

Ravenfield Church: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by Blackbirds and Mistletoe Thrush in fallen Fir tree.

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 1 - S @ 07.30 & 2N @ 14.15 ; Greylag Goose - 9 - S @ 10.40 ; Peregrine - 1 - fem N @ 10.50 ; Herring Gull - 15 - S ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - S ; Skylark - 44 - flushed from set-aside ; Fieldfare - 35 - SW ; Siskin - 1 - Over

Redmires: Common Gull - 5 - with Lesser black-backed and Black-headed on Brownhills lane

Redmires Bottom Res: Goldeneye - 1 - Redhead

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 246 - On s shore ; Lapwing - 224 - Mostly on n shore ; Dunlin - 1 - With Goldies, then departed E ; Snipe - 1 - On s shore ; Skylark - 1 - S ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Arrived from N ; Redwing - 23 - W in 2 parties ; Starling - 85 - W ; Grey Goose sp - 16 - WNW at 08:50. Probable pink-feet. ; Chaffinch - 8 - W

Shillito Wood: Blackbird - 4 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - Two ringed ; Yellowhammer - 4 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Brambling - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 10 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Brambling - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Pheasant - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Raven - 1

Tyzack*s Dam: Little Egret - 1 ; Goosander - 2 ; Mandarin - 14

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 1

Ecclesall: Pink-footed Goose - 40 - Moving SE at 11:15 ; Siskin - 2 ; Fieldfare - 3 - over Button Hill ; Redwing - 12

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Upper pond at 16:20

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 15 ; 320 - 12 - Some resting on exposed mud due to low water level. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Flew from main Res landed in set aside field. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male flew through site. ; Black-headed Gull - 14 ; Jay - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Willow Tit - 2 - Both calling opposite sides of path.