Sightings Archive

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - W/NW

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 3 - one chased others away to S, calling & returned N

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling around 0525hrs ; Goldcrest - 01-Feb - feeding in canopy ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring above canopy; drifted S ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chaffinch - 4 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c.50 - east at 08:55 ; Mute Swan - 5 - female and 4 surviving juvs ; Gadwall - 6 ; 320 - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Coot - 18 ; Black-headed Gull - 70 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Skylark - 8 - in fields to west, including one singing ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singingg ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.20 - two flocks ; Snipe - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 8 - ones and twos widespread around pit top ; Reed Bunting - 5

Sugden Clough: Hobby - 1 - hunting Meadow Pipits ; Kestrel - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Red Grouse - 3+

Wentworth Park: Meadow Pipit - 5 - all S ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - E/NE @ 0840hrs ; Nuthatch - 2 - very vocal ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Common Buzzard - 1 - persistent juv 'begging' calls from Cinder Bridge Plantation

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Tufted Duck - 5 ; Moorhen - 15 ; Mallard - 42+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - S ; Swallow - 3 - 1 S; 2 W ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Coot - 9+ ; Black-headed Gull - c20 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Chiffchaff - 1

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantn: Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Crosspool: Peregrine - 1 - low over the shops on Sandygate Road

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair. ; Mallard - 5 ; Little Grebe - 1 - Feeding in front of Reed bed main Res. ; 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Through site calling. ; Pheasant - 4 - On path. ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Goldfinch - 12+ - Feeding on seed heads in front of metal bench. ; 324 - 7 - Red Admiral’s feeding on same bush. ; 324 - 1 - Southern Hawker.

Fox Hagg/Lodge Moor: Redwing - 6 - low SE

Heeley City Farm: Grey Wagtail - 1

Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 3

Morehall Res: Mallard - 30+ ; Cormorant - 6 ; Mandarin - 2 ; 321 - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Canada Goose - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Wren - 2 ; Robin - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 7+ - 07-Aug ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Magpie - 4 ; Pheasant - 6 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Great Tit - 2

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Coal Tit - 1 - in garden briefly @ 0855hrs. A very infrequent visitor

Rivelin Valley: 319 - 4 - Flying west together this pm

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 30 ; Pink-footed Goose - c70 - east ; Cormorant - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Snipe - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Swallow - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 6+ - Best count this year ; Red-legged Partridge - 7 ; Pheasant - 2