Sightings Archive

Calver: Corvid - 600+ - Flying to roost - sounded like mainly (probably all) Jackdaws

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 5 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Coot - 75 ; 320 - 74 ; Pochard - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Wigeon - 42 ; Black-headed Gull - 90 - c. ; Cormorant - 4 ; Common Gull - 1

East Moor: Yellowhammer - 2 - Pair ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Another photo

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male ; Woodcock - 1 - set aside field early morning. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 30+ ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Over. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Worming on farm land. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Siskin - 4 ; Siskin - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Female. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; 324 - 4 - Red Deer in set aside

Froggatt: Fieldfare - 50+ - In field by Grouse Inn, plus some over

Froggatt Edge: 324 - 5+ - Red Deer, including 1 stag & 1 juvenile

Graves Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - flying SW over Derbyshire Lane, mobbed by Peregrine ; Peregrine - 1 - Flying over Derbyshire Lane, mobbing Common Buzzard. Flew off to the SE.

Greave*s Piece: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male perched and then in flighgt ; Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Bullfinch - 2

Longshaw: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 2 - males ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in the vicinity ; Redwing - 1 - feeding on holly berries

Millhouses Park: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by crow

Mount Darnall: Lesser Redpoll - 50+ ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - One lot over at 10.28, heard only not seen prob above clouds

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 4 - 2 pairs ; Golden Plover - 5 - South ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over

Silver Wood: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - Heard, ESE at 10.00

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Gull - 10 - On Lagoon. ; Black-headed Gull - c60

Silverwood Pit Top: 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Pit wood. ; Meadow Pipit - 25 - Flushed up from field to power lines by dog walker.

Tinsley Golf Course: Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from woodland ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - At least one each of male and female ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Treecreeper - 3 - Together ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - Invluding one singing bird ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Totley Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 300-350 - heading east ; Cormorant - 1 - heading east

Wadsley Common Garden: Brambling - 1 - Male on feeders

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - on chimney from 0730hrs at least

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 16

Cinder Bridge Field; NE of Greasbrough Lane: Red-legged Partridge - 9 ; Pheasant - 20+ ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on ground in field ; Fieldfare - 40+ - in hedgerow

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Kestrel - 1 - female, on wires ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed from hedge-bottom, adjacent to path ; Skylark - 2 - field to E ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 - field to E

Greasbrough; fields to E: Jackdaw - 9 ; Magpie - 9 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Moorhen - 2

Greno Wood: Bullfinch - 1 - Female

Greystones: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1 - OG

Hangingwater garden: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from top of high tree

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 4 - 2m + 2 redhead

Load Brook: Woodcock - 1 - In flight over fields by road ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - At top of pine tree overlooking pond ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - In flight over plantation ; Great Tit - 4 ; Pheasant - 40+ - On field surrounded by railings at end of plantation ; Chaffinch - 3

Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 2

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c700 - roost ; Common Gull - 4