Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Goldeneye - 1 - f/imm ; Treecreeper - 2 - in tit-flock ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Skylark - 12+ - flock, N ; Fieldfare - 1 - S ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Wigeon - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 18 ; Mallard - 35 - inc 28 in from W (from Wentworth lakes?) @ 0820hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Whooper Swan - 4 - 2 ads & 2 1cy, S/SE @ 0927hrs ; Greylag Goose - 2 - N/NW ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - SE ; Gadwall - c30 ; Coot - 39 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 - 4 singles over + a confiding bird feeding on path ; Song Thrush - 8 - inc 5 in small area ; Siskin - 1+ - heard over, calling ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Redwing - c75 - 12 down; c35 NW; c25 NE ; Cormorant - 16+ - 9 SW + 7+ on river ; Pheasant - 4 - 2m; 2f ; Goldfinch - c15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing & calling frequently from SE corner of flash

Troway: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Redwing - 40 - over observers garden west

White Edge Moor: Stonechat - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Red Grouse - 1 ; 324 - 30+ - Several herds and singles of Red Deer including some magnificent stags .Photographers in large numbers too .

Wincobank: 319 - 3 - Seen from Standon Road 13:00

Agden House Woods: Woodcock - 1 ; Brambling - 4 ; Redwing - 100-200 ; Fieldfare - 1000+ - Large flocks flying in all directions in the misty conditions

Bingham Park: Dipper - 3 - 1 displaying & 2 fighting. All seen together ; Mallard - 2+ - Mating

Blacka Moor: Fieldfare - 100

Canklow Woods: Redwing - 90

Crookes Valley Park: Coot - 8 - My highest count here ; Moorhen - 5

Ecclesall: Skylark - 1 - flew E mid-afternoon

Ewden Valley: Whooper Swan - 47 - Noisy, heading SSE.

Foolow: Pink-footed Goose - 200 - South at 10.30

Hathersage: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - heard ; Jay - 1 - Near Green’s House

Higger Tor: Wren - 1 - Singing below theTor at dusk

Hillsborough: Peregrine - 1 - Performed stoop dive over Hillsborough park, just after being harassed by Black headed gull.

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 105 ; Mallard - 140 ; Tufted Duck - 43 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 3 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 16 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - c300-500 - Hard to determine numbers as large groups roaming the area. ; Redwing - c200-300 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Snipe - 4 - 1+3 ENE ; Grey Wagtail - 1 south ; Starling - c350 - NW 7.45-9.45 in groups 15+ ; Chaffinch - c120 - NW ; Pink-footed Goose - 18 - Low ENE at 7.50 ; Siskin - 12 ; Lesser Redpoll - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Brambling - 3 - 1+2 NW ; Crossbill - 3 ; 319 - 2 ; Blackbird - c20 - Suspected to be of migrant origin, all feeding in relatively small area. ; Skylark - 4 - South, 1 returned north ; Raven - 2 ; Jay - 2

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c8 - nocmig: 5 calls 19:30-00:00, 7 calls 21:00-00:00

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 55 - moving SE at 10.05 ; Shelduck - 1 ; 320 - 4 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Lapwing - 18

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c120 - over northwest at 17:00

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - 330 - Two skeins of 200 and 130 between 10:45 and 11:23

Oughtibridge: Fieldfare - 100 plus - Flying north over Cockshutts Lane

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 2 - Redheads late morning ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Feral Pigeon - 462 - Mostly on roof of Ward's above river ; Mallard - 55 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15 ; Black-headed Gull - 80

Ramsley Moor: Brambling - 5