Sightings Archive

Ramsley Moor: Redwing - 10+ - Small numbers in birches ; Fieldfare - 1 - With redwings ; Bullfinch - 2+ - At least two in rowans; unusual here ; Kestrel - 1

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 3 - drifted W @ 1145hrs

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Chiffchaff - 1 - Briefly in garden @ 16.40 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 - in garden @ 17.26

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 10 ; Lapwing - c70 - Lapwings and Plovers regularly taking to the air, spooked by the flights of the Yorkshire Waterboard drone.

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 140 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Snipe - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 7 - in southern paddocks ; Jay - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - c.30 - scattered round pit top in small parties ; Skylark - 20 - most in stubble fields bordering western paddocks, odd bird S ; 319 - 2 ; Rook - 11 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Linnet - c.20 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - south ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 - in ; Mute Swan - 7 - 5ad2j ; Wigeon - 3 - mmf left s ; Wigeon - 3 - mmf left s ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Kestrel - 1 - hover in se ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 - ad ; Pheasant - 4 - m 1call+3 ; Water Rail - 1 - call ; Golden Plover - 1 - call high o/h not seen ; Lapwing - 160+ ; Common Gull - 1 - 2winter ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - imm.s1ad in ; Woodpigeon - 100+ ; Skylark - 14 - all south ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - south ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 10 ; Dunnock - 20 ; Robin - 28 - 16 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Blackbird - 32 ; Long-tailed Tit - 13+ - flock ; Magpie - 16 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 4 - 1nw3s ; Rook - 2 - west ; Chaffinch - 7 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - north ; Goldfinch - 31 - inc flocks 6-10-12 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Bullfinch - 9 - around site ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 5

Treeton: Pink-footed Goose - 80 - South east at 17:25

Wincobank Hill: Raven - 1 - flew W ; 319 - 2 - plus strikingly pale Buteo with white uppertail, (pale CB or exotic)

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 5 - ad pr + 3 imm ; Wigeon - 40 ; Gadwall - 35+ ; 320 - 2 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Coot - 105+ ; Black-headed Gull - 15

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 47 - A doubling of numbers from a week ago

Greystones: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Sat in tree in observer's garden

Intake: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling from Sharrard Road allotments

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 2 - adult pair on Bernard Road incinerator building, E side.

Barbrook Pools: Stonechat - 1 - Stonechat 1m, kestrel 1f. Other species dragonfly 2, common hawker mating on gatepost.

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1230

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 3 - On river, 1 male, others unsure. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male perched on monument, then flew Eastward hunting. 15.45 ; 319 - 1 - Over Canklow Woods 15.45

Crookes Valley Park: Moorhen - 5 - all adults - site record count! ; Coot - 6 - all adults - site record count! ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; 320 - 2 - Pair resting on log. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting in set aside field. ; Hirundine - 1 - Over high unable to identity. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult. ; Pheasant - 2 ; Skylark - 1