Sightings Archive

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chaffinch - 4 - 1 N/NE; 2 W ; Linnet - 1 - NE ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 - single mobile flock ; Kestrel - 1 - male, over towards Aldwarke ; Great Black-backed Gull - 5 - 4 S/SW; 1 N (large gulls moving in mod numbers on a broad front, generally up Don valley) ; Herring Gull - 11 ; Stock Dove - 2 - NW ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Pit-house West: Willow Tit - 1 - Responding to playback behind 'Bittern Pool'

Ravenfield Church: Redwing - 6+ - Over. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - Singing. ; Greenfinch - 3 - Males. ; Chaffinch - 6

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 7 - max

Ringinglow: 319 - 1 - Flew off from grassland near Ringinglow Road

Rivelin Valley: Goldcrest - 1 - Behind Wolf Wheel ; Treecreeper - 1 - Near feeders at Rails Rd ; Jackdaw - 7 ; Mallard - 7 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - In observers garden ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Flying along Coppice Lane

Roundwood Golf course: Carrion Crow - 9 - interacting with MGs ; Magpie - 37+ - in loose flock; lots of interaction, 'display' etc. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - presumed pair

Scholes Ground: Treecreeper - 1 - E edge at base of tree.

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 1 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 - two small flocks ; Skylark - c.25 - in stubble between woods and Pingle Lane Tip ; Yellowhammer - 8 - in hawthorns and stubble near entrance gate to Pingle Lane Tip

Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in Hollings Lane sidings at 07.30 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singingg ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Coot - c.25 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Wigeon - 4 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Jackdaw - 3 - west ; Woodpigeon - 200 - NE ; Kestrel - 2 ; Rook - 30 - in stubble to west ; Red-legged Partridge - 15+ - in fields to west ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 30+ - three flocks ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Trowles Wood: Mallard - 20+ ; Woodpigeon - 50+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Ulley CP: Willow Tit - 2 - resident pair in Morthen Arm ; Kingfisher - 1 - showing well Morthen Arm.

Whirlow Hall Farm: Redwing - c88 - Seen in field near Farm before flying off

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - metal ringed ad male on Bernard Rd incinerator building.

Blacka Moor: Stonechat - 2 - 1m, 1f near Strawberry Lee Farm

Blackburn Meadows NR: Water Rail - 2+ - Calling from reed bed on Ferham Lake

Darnall: Pink-footed Goose - c200 - 2 skeins heading north west at 9.15.

Den Bank: Kestrel - 1 - Male flying down the valley

Derwent Valley: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - flying west over northern part of Ladybower Res at 11:45 ; Crossbill - c10 - in conifers on west side of valley, around Lockerbrook.

Firsby Res: Mallard - 12 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 42 - Down on main Res. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - As usual on sluice. ; Kestrel - 1 - Female. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting then flushed by dog. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Feeding on path. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Call only. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Over together. ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Chaffinch - 10+ - Feeding on farmland. ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 25+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Adults.

Grange Park Golf Course: Goose sp - c30 - 1 skein W @ 10:20. ; 319 - 1 - Possibly hunting,in and out of trees E edge of Watson's Tip. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming in Brick Kiln Plantation ; Dunnock - 3+ ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 4+ ; Redwing - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing