Sightings Archive

Ewden Village/Carrhouse area: Greenfinch - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 1

Gillfield Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Calling near to each other ; Nuthatch - 2 - One responding to other's call ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing at edge of wood

Greystones garden: Mistle Thrush - 2 - Observer's garden ; Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - becoming a daily visitor

Harthill Res: Merlin - 1 - Flying fast and low across the reservoir into shoreline bushes ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Goosander - 3 ; Moorhen - 6 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Starling - 20 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Coot - 1 ; House Sparrow - 2

Kelham Island: Goosander - 6 - 3 female redhead and 3 male redhead, the latter with no sign of moult to breeding plumage

Longshaw: Jay - 1 ; Mandarin - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Female ; Stonechat - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Siskin - 30

Moss Valley, upper (Hazlebarrow): Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 heard ; Nuthatch - 1 heard

Moss Valley, upper (Povey Farm): Kestrel - 1

Norton (School Lane): Nuthatch - 1 heard

Stocksbridge Steels: Willow Tit - 2

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Woodpigeon - 660 - SW ; Starling - 56 - NW ; Redwing - 39 ; Herring Gull - 1 - west ; Chaffinch - 30+ - incl. 11 SW (probably many more) ; Stock Dove - 5+ ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - In field hedgerow ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - NW ; Fieldfare - 20+ ; Goldfinch - 18

Wharncliffe Wood: Siskin - c20 - With Redpoll ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 60+ - Single group below Wharncliffe Heath NR ; Common Buzzard - 2

White Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 65 - N-W at 15.50

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c 70 - flock of c 70

Ecclesall: Pink-footed Goose - 36 - flew low to NW at 10:16 hrs

Gillfield Wood: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Over at 15.42 heading towards the valley head at moderate height. ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Further detail; flight direction SW/SSW and crossed South Yorkshire/Derbyshire border.

Handsworth: Pink-footed Goose - 71 - Southeast at 12:50

Middleton Moor: 320 - 25 - flushed from lagoon by shooting nearby ; Pheasant - 11 - within fencing surrounding No. 4 lagoon ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 450 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - Adults ; Herring Gull - 1

Moss Road Totley: Willow Tit - 1+ - possibly 2 ; Raven - 2 - 2 flyover towards Blackamoor cronking ; Greenfinch - 16 ; Bullfinch - 2 - 2 males calling from treetops. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female attempting kill at feeders then flew low towardsTotley Moss ; Fieldfare - 40 - Approx 40 feeding in fields Top of Moss Road Edge of Blackamoor

Owlthorpe: Blackcap - 1 - male on garden feeders

Peat Pits: Stonechat - 1 - male

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 ; Dipper - 1

Shalesmoor: Pink-footed Goose - c70 - high over SE viewed from Malin Bridge at 12:45, also seen over Handsworth.

Upper Common, Scholes: Blackbird - 1+ ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - in gorse. ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Chaffinch - c.10 ; Brambling - 1 - at least 1 calling. ; Linnet - 70+ - Possibly close to 100, back and forth from flax crop. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male from gorse behind Remount Cottages.

White Lee Moor: Greylag Goose - c40 - over from Broomhead direction, dropping towards Agden resr at dusk

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 6

Bolsterstone: Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Red Grouse - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Wren - 1

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - On river 13.30 ; Long-tailed Tit - 09-Oct ; Blue Tit - 3 - Among LT tit group ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 2 - 1 alarm calling ; Cormorant - 1 - Over