Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Gadwall - 12 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Greylag Goose - C250 ; Canada Goose - C40 ; Mute Swan - 36 ; Cormorant - 9 ; Kestrel - 1m

Barlow Common: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; 319 - 1

Bingham Park: Redwing - 6 - In tree top beside Ibbotson's Wheel Dam

Catcliffe Flash: Herring Gull - 14+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Shoveler - 4 - Males ; Gadwall - 33 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Wigeon - 5 ; Pochard - 1 - Female ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; 320 - 22 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Redwing - 6 - feeding on ground in mixed plantation

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 - Feeding on sluice. ; 320 - 1 - Female still present in Sluice Reed bed. Came into sluice to feed and appears to not be able to fly. ; Greylag Goose - 18 - Over heading towards TCP. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Small Res. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Sluice. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - In sheep paddock with FF. ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - Low over farmland. ; Herring Gull - 19 - 2 flocks over. 15 + 4. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Male through site early morning and Female attacking mixed Thrush and Starling flock. ; 319 - 2 ; Jackdaw - 100+ - Coming out of roost. ; Rook - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Fieldfare - 20+ - in ploughed field flushed by SH. ; Redwing - 2 - Down in sheep paddock. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2 - Uncommon now. ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 9 ; Linnet - 4+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Brambling - 1 - Brief views of Male perched calling in treetop on small Res dam wall. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male - First site record of the year. ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Pheasant - 4 ; Pheasant - 4

Frith Wood, Dronfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Jay - 2

Fulwood garden: Stock Dove - 1 - under feeders in observer's garden - unusual here ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 12 - on lawn

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 4

Grenoside: Redwing - c 40 - with a few Fieldfare in fields south of Greno Wood ; Fieldfare - 5 - with a flock of Redwings in fields south of Greno Wood ; Kestrel - 2 - Hunting over Stanley HIll

Handsworth garden: Blackcap - 1 - female

Heeley: 321 - 1 - over, near Broadfield Road

Millhouses garden: Goldcrest - 1

Nether Edge: 324 - 1 - Wood Mouse. Seen at very close quarters in a garden on Osborne Road

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Bullfinch - 1pr ; Lesser Redpoll - 19 - feeding in birches, inc several stunning males ; Chaffinch - 3+ ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Fieldfare - 27 ; Redwing - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Yellowhammer - c20 - flock in adjacent field ; Reed Bunting - 5+ - with Yellowhammer flock

Norton Lees: Starling - 50+ ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 9 - Over Thorpe Estate. Largest count I've seen locally.

Orgreave Lakes: Wigeon - 64 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 29 - Photo with Lesser Black-backed & Black-headed ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Tufted Duck - 28+ ; Pochard - 84+ ; Goldeneye - 5 - M&F ; Herring Gull - 50+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Gadwall - 7 ; Goosander - 4 - Redheads ; Pochard - 74 - All flushed on to main lake by quad bikes. ; Wigeon - 67 ; Goosander - 43 - Came in to roost B4 16:30 lots of display. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 197