Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Goldfinch - 30+ ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Red-legged Partridge - 39 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - at feeding station ; Fieldfare - 40+ ; Redwing - 60+ ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Rook - 10 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1

Walkley garden: Blackbird - 8+ - Mainly young females into holly and cotoneaster, prob. roosting ; Goldcrest - 2 - With large mixed tit flock in conifers.

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - On river between Bingham Park and Forge Dam

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Skylark - 9+ - inc 1 singing ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Linnet - 2 - 1 singing ; Carrion Crow - 16 - feeding together ; Long-tailed Tit - c12 - in hedgerow ; Goldcrest - 1 - calling from Larch plantation ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 - in adjacent field to S ; Coot - 1+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Ecclesall: Blackbird - 6 - flew S at dusk

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 6 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Cormorant - 1 - Over. ; Herring Gull - 20+ ; Black-headed Gull - 3+ - With Herring Gulls. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting Male. ; 319 - 2 - Over low calling. Presumed parent and independent juv still begging for food. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - one on dead tree; other calling in woodland ; Redwing - 20+ - Flew from undergrowth below small Res Dam wall. ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Siskin - 8 - Several small groups over calling. ; Red-legged Partridge - 6 - On farmland. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 3+ - With LT Tits.

Hangingwater Garden: Brambling - 1 - m

Low Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - appeared to be hunting from top of storm drain into surrounding stubble, 5+ Red Legged Partridge feeding nearby

Middle Common, Scholes: 319 - 4 - 2 over W edge of field, 2 over E, drifting over Rockingham Wood ; Skylark - 1+ ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ ; Stonechat - 1 - feeding above hedge and adjacent cover crop ; Fieldfare - 15 - N at 10:30

Middleton Moor: 320 - 71 ; Shoveler - 11 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Coot - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 9 ; Red Kite - 1 - moving W

Midhope Res: Mandarin - 10 ; Raven - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling after dark

Morley Pond: Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair - Y035 and Y316, came from W end to E end ; Mallard - 20+ ; Moorhen - 1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Jay - 4 ; Redwing - 50+ - inc flock of 27 W ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - over, calling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Fieldfare - c65 - flock, moving S

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Skylark - 12 - inc 1-2 singing in sunshine ; Fieldfare - c30 - flock, S ; Yellowhammer - 5+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - S ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Brambling - 1 - heard over ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - single skein, NE @ 0919hrs ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - S @ 0919hrs; a very unexpected find!

Parkgate: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over Newbiggin Drive

Ravenfield Park: 319 - 4 - In the air together high over site. ; Siskin - 8+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Skylark - 1 - Over adjacent farmland.

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling

Rawmarsh; High Street: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring high over @ 1143hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - W @ 1200hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Redwing - c25 - S @ 0745hrs ; Starling - c90 - c60 W; c30 S @ 0745hrs ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 - SW @ 1025hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - soaring together mobbed by crow @ 1030hrs

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Mistle Thrush - 2 - inc one singing ; Red-legged Partridge - c40 - in adjacent field ; Pheasant - 8 - in adjacent field ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - in adjacent field