Sightings Archive

Thursday 2nd November 2017

• Barlow Common: Pheasant - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1
• Brinsworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew over Barret Estate
• Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew upriver from bridge. ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 - male ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pair ; Cormorant - 1 - over
• Crookes Valley Park: Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - 44
• Edensor: Red Kite - 1 - flew N at 14:41 hrs
• Firsby Res: Mallard - 20+ ; 320 - 21 - On Main Res biggest count so far this Autumn. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Kestrel - 1 - On wires. ; Lesser Redpoll - 8+ - Small numbers over. ; Siskin - 5 - Calling. ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Starling - 100+ - Nervous flock in sheep paddock. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - In Horse field. ; Redwing - 30+ - In hedgerows all round site and over. ; Fieldfare - 1 - Single with Redwings observers first site record this Autumn. ; Blackbird - 12
• Fox Holes Plantation (Wyming Brook): Raven - 3 - soaring together
• Heeley: Pink-footed Goose - 77 - flew over NW at 11:00
• Lodge Moor: Brambling - 02-Mar - heard over early morning
• Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 55+ - 22 landed including 9 juvs. with the rest continuing SE
• Millhouses: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling in tree on Springfield Rd
• Norton Lees: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - One calling in trees at back of gardens, then flew over ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling
• Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 2 - ad.m and imm ; Golden Plover - 8 - flew N at 08.58.
• Ramsley Moor: Stonechat - 2
• Ravenfield Ponds: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - F on pylon.
• Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd/New Stubbin: Cormorant - 3 - N @ 12.10 ; 319 - 5 - in area ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - N ; Herring Gull - 5 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 21 - S ; Short-eared Owl - 1 - flew N low over New Stubbin @ 13.48 mobbed by corvids. ; Starling - c3150 - W. c2000 @ 07.12, c1000 @ 07.22 & 150 @ 08.00
• Redmires: Lesser Redpoll - 2 - at least 2 blogging about over Filter Cottages area
• Redmires Bottom Res: Hawfinch - 4 - flew SE at 08:49 ; Cormorant - 2 - Over NW ; Goldeneye - 1 - Fem/juv ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 22 ; Mallard - 4 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lapwing - 214 - on Middle Res ; Golden Plover - 281 - on Middle Res ; Snipe - 3 - Two on Middle Res + 1 NW ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in tit flock - late here ; Woodpigeon - 325 - WNW in 2 hrs ; Stock Dove - 1 - WNW with Woodpigeons ; Fieldfare - 95 - SE-NW ; Blackbird - 7 - inc 5 E ; Starling - 690 - mostly WNW in 2 hrs ; Jay - 1 - arrived from S ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - singles SE ; Chaffinch - 22 - flew WNW in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 7 - flew WNW ; Bullfinch - 1 - flew SE ; Lesser Redpoll - 26 - WNW in 2 hrs ; Siskin - 28 - flew NW ; Reed Bunting - 3 - flew W
• Rivelin Dams: Mandarin - 3+ - at least 3 males. Often obscured by overhanging willows on Lower Dam but much calling and chasing. ; Cormorant - 2 - in from south; same as Redmires?
• Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 1 - mobbed by crows and jays in Hollings Lane sidings ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Mute Swan - 11 - juvs now commuting between lagoon and TCP ; Kestrel - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 80 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - SW ; Long-tailed Tit - 22 - single flock ; Woodcock - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Jay - 6 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 10 ; Blackbird - c.20 ; Pheasant - c.20
• Thrybergh CP: Common Scoter - 1 - fem (correction - not Scaup)
• Whirlow: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1