Sightings Archive

Silver Wood: Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 4 - 1 singing ; Great Tit - 4 - 2 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Jay - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: Coot - 12 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c.60 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in Hollings Lane sidings at 07.00 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Fieldfare - 9 ; Siskin - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Jackdaw - 10 - north in ones and twos ; Jay - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 1 singing ; Skylark - 8 - 3 singing ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing near Hollings Lane entrance, 1 singing below SW corner of lagoon ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 - two small parties ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 10 ; Moorhen - 2

Smithy Wood: Snipe - 21 - in boggy area on one of the plots still not developed. ; Skylark - 8 - Much singing/chasing ; Linnet - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male

Underbank Res: Tufted Duck - 31 ; Goosander - 1 - drake ; Coot - 2 ; Willow Tit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Upper Rivelin Flash Farm: Tree Sparrow - 1 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Rook - 38 ; Carrion Crow - 2

Walkley garden: Goldcrest - 1 - In Juniper and other evergreens ; Goldfinch - 2 - At nyger feeder and in Garrya ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - At fat balls and in fruit trees.

Agden Res: Wigeon - 2 - drakes ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Greylag Goose - c150 - on resr briefly ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - The first winter 'albifrons' still with the Greylags. ; Siskin - 3 - on feeders at Smallfield, and singing in nearby trees.

Attercliffe: 319 - 1 - circling low over Wicker end of Attercliffe, mobbed by Crows

Brownhills Lane: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing late afternoon

Dale Dike Res: Tufted Duck - 5 ; Golden Plover - 8 - over SW

Firsby Res: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - Female. ; Goldfinch - 6 - Bathing in puddle on Arbour Lane. ; Chaffinch - 4 - At puddle with Goldfinch. ; Greenfinch - 1 - with other Finches. ; Linnet - 1 - Over calling. ; Lesser Redpoll - 6+ ; Skylark - 1 - Singing high over site. ; Yellowhammer - 20+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Fieldfare - 10+ ; Redwing - 5+ ; Rook - 30+ - Over.

Handsworth garden: Goldfinch - 5 ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Dunnock - 3 ; House Sparrow - 6 ; Wren - 1

High Bradfield: Greylag Goose - c220 - in fields below the church. ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - with Greylags late afternoon

Houndkirk Moor: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Fieldfare - 2

Killamarsh Pond: Greylag Goose - C200 - Around 200 Geese feeding on meadow north of Killamarsh pond ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 - with Greylags feeding in meadow ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - on fishing ponds just west of Killamarsh pond

Limb Valley: Mandarin - 26 - On lake at bottom of valley ; Stock Dove - 1 - 1 singing

Lodge Moor: Treecreeper - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1

Low Ash Farm,Worrall: Stonechat - 1 - female ; Black Redstart - 1 - showed for 10 mins at 13-15. ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Magpie - 2 ; Rook - 20