Sightings Archive

Hagg Lane Allotments: Great Tit - 4 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Magpie - 2

Handsworth: Pied Wagtail - 2 - Costa car park ; Linnet - 3 - Costa car park

Howden Res: Goosander - 1 - 2 RH. 3 hours around res no Crossbills at all.

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Female feeding on the ivy berries at the bottom of the garden.

Kimberworth Park: Pied Wagtail - 1 - @ St Johns Green.

Millhouses garden: Blackcap - 1f ; Goldcrest - 1 - first for a year or two

Millhouses Lane garden: Redwing - 1 - feeding on holly berries ; Goldcrest - 1 - foraging in bushes

Orgreave: 320 - 21 ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Dunlin - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Sub adult ; Herring Gull - 131 - At last light However large numbers coming in to wash off and then returning to city centre to roost. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 58 - As herring gull ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - C400 - At last light. Most bird leaving down river towards TSF ; Dunlin - 1 - flew NE ; Pochard - 60 - c ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Lapwing - 50 - c. ; Goosander - 2 - flew N ; 320 - 16 - circled main lake ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 10

Shepherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 30+ ; Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 1 - at least 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1+ ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+

Silver Wood: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing in strip of woodland south of Hollings Lane

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c60 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Coot - 15 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Pheasant - 20+ ; Jay - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Blackbird - c20 ; Fieldfare - c15 - feeding in rowans in south-west paddocks ; Goldfinch - 15 ; Long-tailed Tit - c20 ; Carrion Crow - 10

Thrybergh CP: Brambling - 1male - At feeding station but elusive - all birds very wary ; Water Rail - 1 - In usual place ; Goosander - 2 - 1 male 1 female In main bay - left through disturbance by dog walkers and joggers ; Little Grebe - 13 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Water Rail - 1 - At least one bird coming to food early morning best ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 83 ; Pochard - 14 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Greylag Goose - C240 ; Lapwing - 93 ; Linnet - 100+ - Large mixed flock in filterbed area ; Goldfinch - 80+ ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 40 ; Brambling - 1 - At feeding station this morning ; Redwing - 12 ; Fieldfare - 8 ; 319 - 1

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - 17 - on filter beds (ignore entry from 06/12j ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on filter beds (ignore entry for 06/12)

Waverley: Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Lesser Redpoll - c.200 ; Snipe - 1

Waverley Estate: Golden Plover - 17 ; Grey Partridge - 4 ; Lapwing - 2

Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: Goldfinch - 12 - Feeding in birch tree

Ecclesall: Golden Plover - 3 - flew W over Ansell Road during a snow shower at 13:15

Fulwood: Brambling - 2 - m and f at feeders in observer's garden ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Greenfinch - 4 - at feeders