Sightings Archive

Ughill: Common Buzzard - 5 - including display

Ulley CP: Merlin - 1 - m flew S over S end towards Aston at 08.37.

Upper Haugh; Chapel Walk: Goldcrest - 2 - feeding in garden privet hedge

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Wren - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Siskin - 2 ; Jay - 1

Woolley Wood: Common Buzzard - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 12 - Main Res at dawn. ; 320 - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting in dark. ; Magpie - 5+ - Flew from roost in willows. ; Redwing - 6+

Hammond*s Field: 320 - 1 - female flew in and landed on pool ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - feeding over and on pond

Hillsborough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female narrowly missed taking Feral pigeon off roof top ; Starling - 250+ - possibly roosting in shrubbery in back gardens Oakland Road/wood Road

Holmebrook Valley Park: 320 - 1 - Female on lake. Also 1 Tufted Duck

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Brambling - 1 - SW @ 0649hrs ; Chaffinch - 9 - 5 W; 4 NE

Parkwood Springs: Green Woodpecker - 1 - by eastern edge of Wardsend Cemetery

R Don Livesey Street/Club Mill Road: Long-tailed Tit - 24+ - including flock of 19+ ; Goldcrest - 2+ - with the Long-tailed Tit flocks ; Dipper - 01-Feb - 1 or 2 singing birds

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Redwing - 9 - W @ 0813hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - battled W into strong wind @ 1130hrs ; Goldfinch - 3 - in garden

Rawmarsh:New Stubbin: Whooper Swan - 5 - high to S @ 08.10 ; Canada Goose - 8 - N @ 09.08 ; Mallard - 24 - E @ 08.30 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; 319 - 3 - in area ; Common Gull - 2 - on playing field ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad S ; Woodpigeon - 140 - SW ; Stock Dove - 1 - SW ; Fieldfare - 20 - SW ; Redwing - 34 - SW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - SW ; Linnet - 18 - S ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - SW

Redmires Bottom Res: Dipper - 1 - on waterboard cottages outflow.

Redmires Middle Res: Hawfinch - 03-Apr - one W then back round E at 08:40, 2 W at 9:43, and one circling then W over lower Resr waterboard cottages at 11:05. ; Crossbill - 2 - W ; Hawfinch - 3 - 1 W before circling back E and then 2 W at 09:45 ; Hawfinch - 3 - another record shot ; Crossbill - 2 - W ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - over S ; Redwing - 400 - W in small parties 07:30-10:30 ; Fieldfare - 450 - W in 3 hours - photo ; Starling - 240 - W in small parties prior to 10:30 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male dashed through low ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 160 ; Golden Plover - 20 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - presumed same bird W then back E ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - flew between plantations ; Lesser Redpoll - 25 ; Siskin - 15

Smithy Wood Business Park: Snipe - 4 - on undeveloped land west of Cowley Way

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting in strong winds at 07:25

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 1

Chatsworth Park: 319 - 4 - 3 in air together, & another calling in a different area of the Park ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Comma butterfly

Crowhole: 319 - 3 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Ecclesall: Fieldfare - 100 - c. flew NW in 3 parties over Ansell Road this afternoon

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - fishing on lower lake at 16:55

Hillsborough: Pink-footed Goose - heard only - noisy flock over E at 18:40

Hillsborough Park: Starling - 1+ - roost audible on one of the islands ; Greylag Goose - 1 - plus 1 mainly white farmyard type ; Song Thrush - 2 - over E together at dusk

Leash Fen: Woodpigeon - 1230 - SW in 10 minutes between 8.40 and 8.50

Lower Walkley: Fieldfare - 1 - nocturnal migrant heard over at 18.45

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 900+ - Birds still arriving in numbers ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - Adults

Millhouses: Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 - Flew S

Ramsley Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 480 - Skeins of 250+,200+, and 28 ESE between 9.40 and 9.50 ; Stonechat - 2 - Adult male and imm male

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: 321 - 1 - SW @ 17.40 ; Cormorant - 1 - N @ 17.00 ; Mallard - 15 - W @ 17.50

Redmires Res: Common Buzzard - 2 - singles N ; Raven - 6 - over Hammond's Field ; Lapwing - 297 - on Middle Res ; Golden Plover - 158 - on Middle Res ; Greylag Goose - 2 - arrived from the west ; Woodpigeon - 3490 - flew S in 2 hrs ; Stock Dove - 2 - flew SW ; Fieldfare - 50 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Redwing - 5 - flew W ; Starling - 151 - flew W in 2 hrs