Sightings Archive

Shepherd*s Plantation: Blackbird - 3+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Goldfinch - 1+

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Gull - 3 - With BHGs on water. ; Snipe - 4 ; Greenfinch - 1 - Male ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Pair, unusual looking Male with white face.

Thrybergh CP: Coal Tit - 2 - Coming to Feeding station Thrybergh lane. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male Thrybergh lane. ; Fieldfare - 20c - On adjacent field.

Totley Moor: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - male still showing well on the northern slope of the ventilation shaft mound at 14.30hrs

Treeton Dyke: Coot - 61 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Mute Swan - 5 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Mallard - 24 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Herring Gull - 18 ; Black-headed Gull - 70 - 90% ice covered.

Upper Common, Scholes: Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; Magpie - 5

Weston Park: 320 - 1 - (appears unringed and fully winged)

Agden Side: Brambling - 3 - ringed

Apperknowle: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Blackburn Meadows NR: Jackdaw - 900+ - Left the roost at 07:30.

Blue Man*s Bower: Reed Bunting - 3+ - wetland frozen

Bradfield Dale: Blue Tit - 10+ - probable courtship behaviour ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Great Tit - 8+ - vocal ; Siskin - c40 - flock feeding and flying between treetops ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Robin - 5+ - singing ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Greylag Goose - c4 - fly over ; Coal Tit - 2 - singing

Brincliffe Edge: 319 - 1

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 70

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 4 - 2 ads & 2 2cy, on ice ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c50 ; Coot - 27 - flash 90+% frozen ; Mallard - 7 ; Gadwall - 2prs ; 320 - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 2prs

Centenary Riverside: Mallard - 2 - river ; Cormorant - 1 - river ; Kingfisher - 1 - river ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Redwing - 8

Coal Aston: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Graves Park: 322 - 1 - Alexandrine Parakeet. Hanging out with a ring-necked parakeet.

Kimberworth garden: Coal Tit - 1 - Feeding on fatballs

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 317 ; Snipe - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 2

Mount Pleasant Park: Redwing - 31+ ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Mute Swan - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Gadwall - 14 ; Wigeon - 46 ; Tufted Duck - 48 ; Pochard - 72 ; Goldeneye - 5 - 3m + 2f ; Coot - 41 ; Lapwing - 45 - c. ; Jack Snipe - 1 - flushed by dog walker ; Herring Gull - 150 - c. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 30 - c. ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Cormorant - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 41 ; Mallard - 40-50 ; Herring Gull - c50

Parkgate; Forge Way: Herring Gull - c60 - loafing on rooftop ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - loafing on rooftop

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 5 - soaring together & interacting in sunshine, 1110-1115hrs

Redmires Plantation: Green Woodpecker - 1