Sightings Archive

Green Moor: 319 - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 - photo ; Tree Sparrow - 6 ; Blackbird - 10 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Greystones: Redwing - 4+ - Observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Jay - 2

Handsworth garden: Grey Wagtail - 1

Langsett Res: Goosander - 1 - Male

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Starling - 4 - Incl. sub-song, induced by bright winter sun? ; Greylag Goose - 26+ ; Siskin - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Raven - 2 - Flew across fields calling and heard around Midhope Res after. ; 319 - 1 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 40+

Malin Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying downstream just below Mousehole Forge.

Midhope Res: Little Grebe - 2 - a pair trilling

Millhouses: Blackcap - 3 - Now two males and a female in Stowe Avenue garden

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 1 - female visiting feeders ; Goldcrest - 1 - foraging in bushes ; Goldcrest - 2 - together, foraging in bushes

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 5 - Feeding on the few remaining holly berries

Orgreave Lakes: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - By the Rother early afternoon. In the reedbeds (both banks) about 200m upstream of the bridge, showing really well at times. ; Stonechat - 3 - Small lake ; Goosander - 29 - Main lake at dusk ; Goosander - 29 - photo

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - c30 - On south shore

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - Female on feeders again

Agden Bog: Siskin - 3 ; Raven - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Bullfinch - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 6 - along with Great Tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, House Sparrow, Balckbird, Robin and Dunnock at the feeders ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Mallard - 50+ ; Woodpigeon - 7 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 44 - flying south...

Agden Res: Mandarin - 22 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Moorhen - 2

Arbourthorne: Grey Heron - 1 - On pond at 14:50. ; Mallard - 4 - Two Drakes ; Moorhen - 1

Barlow Common: Skylark - 04-May ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - two of them seeming to be hunting in tandem; never seen that before

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 3 - 2 male

Broomhead Wood: Redwing - c50

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - c30 - feeding roadside

Canklow Woods: Bullfinch - 4 - 2 Male, 2 female near Boston castle 14.05 ; Jay - 5 ; Fieldfare - 05-Jun

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 6 - 4m ; Gadwall - 20 ; 320 - 14 ; Mute Swan - 2

Centenary Riverside: Little Grebe - 2 - Feeding river. ; Goosander - 4 - 3 Male, 1 female ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 8 - 5 Male, 3 female ; Canada Goose - 1 ; 320 - 09-Oct - Noisey group on pond. ; Cormorant - 3 - 2 over, 1 feeding river. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male, seen from bridge, flew upriver 12.45 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male, from bridge flew upriver 12.45

Dronfield: Long-tailed Tit - 12 - In wood off Half Acre Lane ; Nuthatch - 2 - In woods off Half Acre Lane

Ecclesall: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden on Ansell Road

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Female on upper pond ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ - Lower pond ; Kingfisher - 2 - on upper pond

Foxhall Lane: Stonechat - 1 - flew from vegetation on roadside perching on posts and wall ; 319 - 1 - i bird mobbed by Carion Crow ; Little Owl - 1 - 1 bird roosting in Holly bush

Frecheville: Goosander - 3 - Frecheville pond 1m 2rh

Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - Male in observer's garden

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 8