Sightings Archive

Nether Edge: Tawny Owl - 1 - heard ; Nuthatch - 2 - On feeders Moncrieffe Rd

Norton Lees: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - In tree on the ‘green’ by Thorpe House Rise

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 383 - Shrouded in mist ; Pheasant - 1

Ranmoor: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling from bottom of Ivy Park Road

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden for several minutes around 1430hrs

Rivelin Valley: Goosander - 5 - On Wolf Wheel ; Mandarin - 3 ; Goosander - 5 - 2m + 3f, Wolf Wheel ; Goosander - 5 - another photo

Silverwood: Kingfisher - 1 - sitting in lower branches of a birch overlooking railway line pond. Very unusual here; presumably individual that visits nearby TCP

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 71 - Good numbers back after the snow, but nothing among them

Burncross, Chapeltown: Greenfinch - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2

Centenary Riverside: Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Goosander - 5 - River, 2 male, 3 female ; Mallard - 12 ; 320 - Dec-13 - On pond calling noisily . ; Redwing - 20-25 - Feeding on silt deposit from floods far end of site. ; Cormorant - 5 - Over ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Feeding near entrance 13.00 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Robin - 4 - 3 singing ; Wren - 2 - 1 singing, 1 alarm calling. ; Long-tailed Tit - 09-Oct ; Great Tit - 2 - 1 singing ; Blue Tit - 04-May - 1 calling ; Pheasant - 3 - 1 Male, 2 female

Clay Wood/Cholera Monument: Tawny Owl - 1 - perched in tree

Crosspool: Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting ; Tawny Owl - 1 - photo ; Tawny Owl - 1 - another photo

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 7 - 4m, 3f ; 320 - 1 - male still present

Fulwood garden: Siskin - 1 - Male singing this morning

Greystones: Redwing - 1 - Observer's garden ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - 2 visits from a Male, AM & PM, in OG ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - AM photo

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - m ; Song Thrush - 1

Heeley City Farm: Redwing - 5+

Kimberworth: Redwing - 20 - Group of about 20 feeding on the ground and in the trees at Masbrough cemetery at Kimberworth.

Loxley Valley: 320 - 2 - on Wragg's Pond ; Siskin - c50 - in alders by Wragg's Pond

Manor Fields Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing top pond at 15:35. ; Redwing - c12 - at 15:50 then flew to adj Cemetery.

Mayfield Valley: Little Owl - 1

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 heard ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 1 - male, visiting the feeders with the Goldfinches ; Goldcrest - 1 - foraging in bushes ; Redwing - 1 - in tree

Owler Bar: Tree Sparrow - 1 - Moorwood Lane

R Sheaf, Duchess Rd: Grey Heron - 1 - fishing on river ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Feral Pigeon - 2 - looked like a pair - perhaps investigating old wall for nest sites

Ravenfield Church: Fieldfare - c150 - Feeding on field next to church ; 319 - 3 - 1 hunting for worms on Winter wheat field. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male low across field. ; Carrion Crow - 15 ; Starling - 30 - With Fieldfare.

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 22 ; Goosander - 2 - 1 pair on Wolf Wheel ; Mandarin - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2

Silverwood (Pit wood): Tawny Owl - 3 - 2 a pair and a single in regular roosts ; Fieldfare - 30+ - On adjacent fields. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Coot - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - c.70 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - east ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - singing briefly ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Jay - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 4

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting behind Remount cottages.

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Stonechat - Pair ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; Woodpigeon - c200 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Bradfield: White-fronted Goose - 1 - imm bird, in field just east of Netherhouse farm with 19 greylags, joined by about 200 by 10.15. Redmires bird again.