Sightings Archive

Peat Pits: Red-legged Partridge - 2

Poolsbrook CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Goose sp - 1 - Barnacle x Canada hybrid ‘Canacle Goose’?!

Poolsbrook Marsh: 320 - 2 ; Water Rail - 4 - Separate birds calling ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - having a territorial sing-off ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Redwing - 20 - flew N ; Green Woodpecker - 2 - separate birds yaffling ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Lapwing - 1 - Briefly overhead ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Kestrel - 1 - female, on tower of St Mary's ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - inc song from church tower ; Redwing - 2

Rawmarsh; Stubbin Incline: Bullfinch - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing cocks

Redscope Plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Ringinglow Bog: Common Buzzard - 3 ; Golden Plover - 100 - c. Flock overhead

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1 - nocmig recorded ; Water Rail - 1 - called five times over garden, nocmig recorded.

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male by the footpath at Boundary Stones SK230875.

Stanage Edge, below: Snipe - 1 - Flying and calling from reeds adjacent to Popular end parking area. ; Lapwing - 2

Stoney Middleton: Little Grebe - 2 - on small pools to NE ; Mandarin - 3 ; Canada Goose - 2 - on small pools ; Chiffchaff - 5 - feeding at waters edge, not singing.

Troway: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 319 - 2

Wadsley Common: Yellowhammer - 1 - singing in scrub

Wadsley Common garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 1 - Male on fat-ball feeder for 4th day running. Very aggressive to other birds.

Watergrove: Mute Swan - 1 - subad still present ; Coot - 2

Wentworth Deer Park: Cormorant - 2 - E/SE ; Jay - 2 ; Redwing - c80 - singing noisily from treetops for several minutes before leaving NW

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Mallard - 20 ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Coot - 10 ; Greylag Goose - 5 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mandarin - 1pr ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 13 ; 320 - 1 - female ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Moorhen - 18 ; Coot - 5 ; Mallard - 25 ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 05-Jun - 5 on open water; possibly another at nest site in typha ; Mute Swan - 6 - pair displaying/copulating + 4 NW ; Canada Goose - 4 - 2 on water + 2 E ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over adjacent woodland ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Redwing - 1 - over ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Treecreeper - 1pr - inc song ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - displaying over ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc 1 singing

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Tufted Duck - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 - inc display ; Mallard - 7 ; Coot - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - E

Wentworth Park; Temple Hill Plantn: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

West Nab: Wheatear - 1 - feeding briefly before flying over to Agden.

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Stonechat - 2 - pair perched on dead bracken

Whiteley Woods: Jay - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 10 - M&F ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - M&F

Agden Bog: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Barnside Farm: Fieldfare - 100+ - south of Gilroyd Lane and Mortimer Rd junction

Beeley Wood: Kingfisher - 1 - over river don north ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1