Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Black-headed Gull - C2000 ; Goosander - 9 - Came into roost ; Goldeneye - 1 - RH asleep

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chaffinch - 6 - inc 4 SE ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Goldcrest - 01-Feb - with tit-flock ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Herring Gull - 6 - 5 SW; 1 NE calling ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults, both SW ; Magpie - 18 - wandering flock ; Carrion Crow - 04-May - fighting on ground, watched intently by MGs ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 12 - inc party of 10 ; Great Tit - 7+ - mixed tit-flock ; Blue Tit - 5+ - mixed tit-flock ; Bullfinch - 1

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Woodpigeon - 1pr - copulating

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 465 - c. roosted on Top Res ; Common Gull - 3 - 2 ads + 1 first-winter roosted with BHGs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad roosted on Top Res with BHGs ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2nd-winter roosted on Top Res with BHGs ; Greylag Goose - 28 - in fields

Roundwood Golf course: Goldfinch - 15-20 - feeding in birches ; Stock Dove - 2 - N/NW ; Redwing - c15 - flock

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Snipe - 1 - Flew over below wharncliffe crags ; Raven - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 ; Stock Dove - 2

Wyming Brook: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 4

Barbrook Valley: Meadow Pipit - 4+ ; Kestrel - 1 - Female ; 319 - 2 ; 324 - 36 - Red Deer

Barlow: 319 - 2

Beauchief ponds: Mandarin - 7 - 4m, 3f ; Mallard - 9 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 heard

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 heard

Greystones garden: Goldcrest - 1

Hudson.s Rough: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Feeding low close to base of trees. ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+

Ladies* Spring Wood: 321 - 1 over calling noisily at dusk

Linacre Res: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goosander - 1 ; Mandarin - up to 8 ; Goldcrest - 2

Lodge Moor garden: Brambling - 1 - Male in bush by seed feeder ; Coal Tit - 2

Longshaw: Pink-footed Goose - 58 - E at 8.35 ; Mandarin - 7 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Raven - 1 - calling , over Fox House towards Burbage Valley

Owler Bar: Kestrel - 1 - Male

Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over @ 1013hrs; drifted N ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - SW @ 1225hrs

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 15+ ; Jackdaw - 25+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Rook - 10+

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 2 - One of each gender ; Goldfinch - 6 - One juvenile ; Chaffinch - 12 - 11 males ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Coal Tit - 5 ; Robin - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Blackbird - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - over Hollings Lane meadows at 07.05

Thrybergh CP: Goldeneye - 1 - Female at bird hide end of lake.

Tyzack*s Dam, Abbeydale: Goosander - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Piping and circling over the water.

Wharncliffe Chase (north): 319 - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Linnet - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 5 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - on Bernard Rd incinerator building

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 22

Chatsworth Park: Black-headed Gull - 195 - Feeding one sodden pasture, and washing off in river ; Kingfisher - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying over lower lake at 07:35 ; Dipper - 1 - close to Hunters Bar at 07:40