Sightings Archive

Kimberworth Park: Starling - 40+ - Ashworth Drive/Remount Way

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mallard - 60+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - c40 - @ Peacock Lodge farm

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c90 - over west at 9:25 ; Whooper Swan - 8 - over north at 10:52 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 11

Rivelin Valley: Pink-footed Goose - C80 - Flying NW at 10:15 ; Pink-footed Goose - C80 - Flying NW

Wortley area: Lapwing - 300+

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 3 - SW

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Feral Pigeon - 150-200 ; Peregrine - 1 - adult male, unsuccessfully hunting FPs on 3 occasions, 0840-0918hrs & resting on chimney

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 70+ - With Canada Geese

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c 40 - c 40 mobbing sparrowhawk

Greystones: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Unsuccessful hunting attempt in observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1

Hangingwater Garden: Song Thrush - 1 - first since last winter ; Collared Dove - 2 - back after a long holiday

Hillsborough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Soaring over SWFC stadium. Presumably on the lookout for moribund owls

Malin Bridge: Pink-footed Goose - c65 - Over Bradfield Road, and heading W up the Loxley Valley at 15:05

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Song Thrush - 1 ; Magpie - 14 - post-roost ; Siskin - 6+ - over, inc 5 NW ; Black-headed Gull - 40 - 11 N/NE; 29 SW ; Common Gull - 2 - SW ; Mallard - 4 - NE ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting from treetop ; Goldfinch - 30+ - inc 20+ feeding on fallen Ash keys ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - circled & left N ; Herring Gull - 5 - 3 SW; 2 NE ; Chaffinch - 10+ - inc 5+ feeding on fallen Ash keys ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Redwing - c60 - light movement of birds to W/NW

Porter Brook: Dipper - 1 - just Oakbrook Road

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Mistle Thrush - 1 - NW

Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 1 - female

Redmires Top Res: Moorhen - 1 - roadside

Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1

RVCP, Main Lake: Cormorant - 16

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Little Egret - 2 ; Cormorant - 15 ; Goldeneye - 3 ; Pochard - 20+ ; Tufted Duck - 30+ ; 320 - 30+ ; Wigeon - 60+ ; Gadwall - 20+ ; Redwing - 30

RVCP, Northern Lake: Common Gull - 6 ; Siskin - 17 ; Goosander - 4

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting c07:20

Stanage: Red Grouse - 5

Underbank Res: Snipe - 1 ; Raven - 1 - west ; Goldcrest - 6+ - in a mixed tit flock

Waverley: Grey Partridge - 4 ; Snipe - 1 ; Jack Snipe - 3

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 60 - mobile flock of c60

Frith Wood, Dronfield: Goldcrest - 4 ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Bullfinch - 1 - On track towards Summerley

Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - female at garden feeders again ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - at garden feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at garden feeders ; Goldcrest - 1 - in observer's garden ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 - moved through garden ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female visited garden feeders but unsuccessful

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 79 ; Mandarin - 62 ; Moorhen - 6 ; Coot - 3 ; Little Grebe - 1

Meersbrook Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 4+ - Feeding on holly berries

Orgreave Lakes: Knot - 1 - beside main footpath at N end of main lake - very tame. Still present at 10.00.

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 12 ; Short-eared Owl - 1 - One bird reported by dog walker off Thrybergh Lane flew towards old railway

Agden: Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Siskin - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1

Agden Res: Mandarin - 11 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 8

Bradfield: Greylag Goose - 70+ - Feeding in fields

Canklow Woods: Siskin - 3