Sightings Archive

Norfolk Park; Park Grange Estate: Blackbird - 9 - feeding on amenity grass ; Blue Tit - 2 - in hawthorn hedge ; Robin - 2 - in hawthorn hedge ; Great Tit - 1

Norton Lees: Goldfinch - 6 - In small tree on Cherry Bank Road ; 321 - 1 - Flying low over Warminster Road

Orgreave Lakes: Mandarin - 2 - Pair on the Rother. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from large plantation, SW corner of site. ; Oystercatcher - 2 - Breeding pair returning

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over @ 1415hrs, mobbed by SGs; stooped away to S

RVCP, Intermediate Pond: Little Egret - 1

Thorpe Hesley: Lapwing - 76

Underbank Res: Mandarin - 2 - a pair ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Coot - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - a pair

Wadsley Common garden: Magpie - 2 - Pair carrying nesting material into tall conifer. ; Stock Dove - 4

Whiteley Woods: Stock Dove - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Worrall: Black Redstart - 1 - fem type still NE of Low Ash Farm

Attercliffe: 319 - 2 - Being mobbed by a Crow

Botanical Gardens: Redwing - 5

Forge Dam: 320 - 1 - Male with Mallards.

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Redwing - 50 - feeding in leaf litter on slope below church ; Redwing - 15+

Green Moor: 319 - 4 ; Tree Sparrow - 8

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 24 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Coot - 10 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 170 - inc colour-ringed gull 2T46 from Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria - last seen here Nov 2020

Low Ash Farm, Worrall: Black Redstart - 1 - female type still present

Lowfield: Magpie - 2 - Perched by what looks like last year's nest while a crow in top of the nest was adjusting sticks to, presumably, make it's own nest. ; Dunnock - 1 - male singing in shrubs by Olive Grove First Bus depot.

Norfolk Heritage Park: Woodpigeon - 25+ ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 2 - flew over ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2 pairs ; Blue Tit - c30 ; Jay - 1 ; Robin - 6 ; Great Tit - 2 - pair ; Magpie - 4 - 2 pairs ; Blackbird - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Goldfinch - c30 - singing from treetops ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 1

Porter Brook: Carrion Crow - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Magpie - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Dipper - 2 - Feeding. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 23 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Wren - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Rook - 20+ ; Chaffinch - 2 - Females. ; Robin - 1 ; Jackdaw - 20+ ; Pheasant - 2 ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Redwing - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - presumed the regular breeding pair, the male with white flecks on the head.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Gull - 1 - 2cy over; left S @ 0925hrs

Rivelin Valley Garden: Blackbird - 5 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jackdaw - 2 - with 15 -34 above and in adjacent fields ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Robin - 3 ; Wren - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Canada Goose - 6 - Flying East ; Kestrel - 2 - Courtship flight above

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 5 - 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing