Sightings Archive

Ringinglow: Fieldfare - 1 - With Redwing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1

Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 1pr - feeding together; left W ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Summerley: Kestrel - 2

Upper Common, Scholes: Meadow Pipit - 3+ - From stubble. ; Dunnock - 1 - calls ; Blackbird - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male hunting ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 - over the reserve ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+

Wickersley Woods: Jay - 1 - Feeding on bread. ; Nuthatch - 1 - Feeling on fat bald. ; Blue Tit - 2 - Locked in battle on floor. Both flew off unharmed. ; Common Gull - 9 - Feeding on football pitches.

Worrall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - in lower park, eating hawthorn berries

Wortley: Yellowhammer - 10

Barlow Common: Barn Owl - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1

Blackamoor: Red Kite - 1 - First seen in direction of Ringinglow, travelled across Blackamoor in a generally SE direction whilst soaring in circles.

Broomhead/Rushy Wood Area: 319 - 1 - calling from conifer plantation ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 04-May ; Blue Tit - 5 - on feeders ; Great Tit - 4 - on feeders ; Coal Tit - 12+ - on feeders and in conifers very vocal ; Chaffinch - 2 - females ; Nuthatch - 3 - mainly on peanuts ; Robin - 3 ; Wren - 2

Brownhills Lane: Kestrel - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 129 - Single flock feeding in fields, my largest count here ny some way ; Canada Goose - 2 - With Greylags ; Meadow Pipit - 16 - Around manure pile ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair ; Lapwing - 1 - In field opposite Roper Hill junction. On territory already?

Deepcar Garden: Carrion Crow - 2 ; Rook - 4 ; Magpie - 2 ; Jackdaw - 06-Aug ; Starling - 15/20 ; House Sparrow - 08-Dec ; Black-headed Gull - 15 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Collared Dove - 4 - 2 pairs one pair mating ; Goldfinch - 06-Aug ; Robin - 2 ; Dunnock - 4 - two pairs one in front &one in back Garden ; Wren - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Male with 2/2 successful fishing attempts on lower pond, and drawing a socially distanced crowd.

Forge Dam: 320 - 1

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Redwing - 2+ - Feeding in berry tree ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male

Gleadless Valley LNR: Kestrel - 1 - male hunting Lees Hall Open Space.

Graves Park: Mallard - c55 ; Tufted Duck - 16 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 15 ; Black-headed Gull - c40 ; Woodpigeon - 30+ ; Collared Dove - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Magpie - 8 ; Jackdaw - 4+ ; Carrion Crow - 20+ ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Wren - 5 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Robin - 7 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Dunnock - 1

Green Moor: Magpie - 2 ; Starling - 52+ ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - In field next to cricket pitch ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Blackbird - 3 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Robin - 2 ; Collared Dove - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 2