Sightings Archive

Swinton Common: Stock Dove - 1 - singing, Abdy Lane ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr ; Stock Dove - 1 - song/aerial display; Pottery Farm ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Pheasant - 15 - 3m; 12f ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male; Pottery Farm ; Mallard - 1 - drake, on pond; Pottery Farm ; Moorhen - 1 - on pond

Swinton Common; Lawn Plantation: Redwing - c60 - flock in treetops; continuous subsong ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 - 3 SK4398; 2 SK4498 ; Jay - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flew into woodland edge ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Swinton; Pottery Ponds: Mallard - 9 ; Greenfinch - 01-Feb - singing

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 59 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Water Rail - 1+ ; Lapwing - 8 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1M ; Chaffinch - C20 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1F

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 4 - 1m, 3 redheads

Ughill Moor: Reed Bunting - 2 - a pair on dry stone wall ; 319 - 2 - pair flying together beside Loftshaw quarry ; Greylag Goose - 4 - 3 pairs on silage fields beside Stake hill Rd ; Skylark - 2+ - singing males over grassland beside Stake Hill Rd

Warren Vale: Stock Dove - 3 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - over

Warren Vale LNR: Chaffinch - 2prs ; Coal Tit - 1 ; House Sparrow - 7 - flock, on woodland edge ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing; Birch Wood ; Grey Heron - 1 - low to W ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Birch Wood ; Nuthatch - 1

Warren Vale; Dyson*s Plantation: Coal Tit - 1 - singing

White Lee Moor: Red Kite - 1 - over from N late am

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 59

Chancet Wood: Jay - 1

Cutthroat Bridge: Stonechat - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Lapwing - 1

Derwent Moor: Raven - 4 ; Red Grouse - 12 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1

Dore: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling on Blackamoor Crescent

Foxhill: Tawny Owl - 2 - Soft courtship calls, Shaw Hill

Graves Park: 319 - 1 - in woods

High Green: Greenfinch - 3 - Song/display

Howden Res: Grey Heron - 1 - ad flew into conifers ; Kestrel - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 4 ; Raven - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mandarin - 2 - pair on res ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Crossbill - 4 ; Brambling - 90 - several flocks within the vicinity ; Siskin - 200+ ; Crossbill - 11

Langsett Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - a pair

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - 19+ - Many appear to be on territory

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 70 ; Lapwing - 271 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Midhope Hall Lane: Curlew - 34

Midhope Moor: Stonechat - 2 - a pair

Midhope Res: Little Grebe - 3 - One trilling ; Tufted Duck - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 1

Mount Darnall: Carrion Crow - 68

Parkbank Wood: Treecreeper - 2 - Same tree.

RVCP: Goosander - 16

Silverwood Lagoon: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling around pit top 08:15-08:55

Thrybergh CP: Whooper Swan - 33 - Present all morning ; Water Rail - 2 ; Whooper Swan - 33

Treeton SF: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 51 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 112

Waverley Estate: Golden Plover - 39

Windy Corner: Barn Owl - 1 - Raptor Watch ; Goshawk - 1 - Male ; Raven - 1 - Raptor Watch ; Kestrel - 3 ; 319 - 4+