Sightings Archive

Whiteley Woods House: Woodpigeon - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Soaring and calling. ; Rook - 1+ - With Buzzard. ; Great Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2

Barlow Common: Tawny Owl - 2+ - one showing from obs garden and at least one other nearby calling to it.

Big Moor: Red Kite - 1 - moving through S at 15.10.

Dale Dike Res: Tufted Duck - 5 - 4m 1f ; Little Grebe - 1

Damflask Res: Coot - 1 ; Canada Goose - 10

Fox Hill: Greylag Goose - c180 - Over heading S

Freebirch: Stock Dove - 65 - Feeding in stubble field

Fulwood: Skylark - 1 - Over calling, heading.NW

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 8+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Handsworth garden: 324 - 1 - Hedgehog coming onto garden for food for the last 4 nights

Heeley - Broadfield Road: Long-tailed Tit - 1

Heeley Millenium Park: Song Thrush - 1, singing

High Bradfield: Greylag Goose - 218 - Below Nether House Farm again ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - still with Greylags ; Greylag Goose - 270 - Below Nether House Farm

Langsett: Lapwing - c160 - c60 around Low Moor with a single group of 94 to the east. ; Curlew - 22 - Left Low Moor and flew towards Langsett Res. ; 319 - 1

Lowfield;: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Olive Grove - soaring over First Bus depot.

Loxley Chase: Little Owl - 1 - calling from Haighenfield Farm ; Skylark - 6 - including 2 singing males, newly returned

Meersbrook Park: 319 - 1 - Circling over, high

Middleton Moor: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Common Gull - 600 - Six hundred ; Curlew - 4 - First of year ; Lapwing - 155 ; Stonechat - 3

Midhope Res: Goldcrest - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 singing ; Chaffinch - 1 singing ; Oystercatcher - 3 - Dam wall ; Goldeneye - Pair - Constantly diving ; Kestrel - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - Pair - Spillway ; Wigeon - 5 - 3 male, 2 female ; Tufted Duck - 2 pairs ; Little Grebe - 1 trilling

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 6

Redmires Bottom Res: Greylag Goose - 36 ; Canada Goose - 31 - Much courtship squabbling

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 14 ; 320 - 2 - 1 pair

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - 1pair

Ringinglow Bog: Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Golden Plover - c80 - over in 3 loose flocks

Roper Hill: Curlew - 14 - Single party circling (lots of disturbance around shoreline of resrs) ; Lapwing - 70 - Circling with shorelines of resrs heavily disturbed ; Raven - 2 - Over W ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Fieldfare - 20 - Feeidng in fields

Thorpe Hesley: Common Buzzard - 6 - calling and soaring. 2 flew off towards Wentworth.

Ughill Moors: Lapwing - 5 - displaying in fields ; Stonechat - 2 - pair in rough fields ; Curlew - 1 - over calling

Upper Common, Scholes: Lapwing - 3 - displaying

Wentworth, Ashes Farm: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling mid afternoon

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - 12 - In plantation above path rising up through trees

Bradfield Dale: Robin - 7 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Chaffinch - 9 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Blackbird - 2 - both males ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - male ; Kestrel - 1 - perched on wire scanning ground ; Magpie - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Coal Tit - 1 ; 319 - 2 - seen from Bradfield Dale soaring over Woodseats farm area

Brincliffe Edge: Raven - 1 - soaring - only second I've seen here in 17 years

Brincliffe Edge Road: Wren - 1 - In garden hedge

Brogging: Coal Tit - 4+ ; Goldcrest - 6+ - along with coal tits and blue tits in tops of Alder trees ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Wren - 1 ; Robin - 2 - including 3 close together with 2 of them chasing each other ; Dunnock - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Canada Goose - 3

Brogging Moss: Red Grouse - c16 ; Golden Plover - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; 324 - 3 - Mountain Hare (still white pelage)

Brogging Moss Plantation: Great Tit - 1