Sightings Archive

Kiveton Park: Goldfinch - 15+ ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Robin - 2 ; House Sparrow - 20+ ; Magpie - 1 ; Jackdaw - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Meadowhall: Blackbird - 1 - 16.45 Singing in pouring rain near car parks

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Collared Dove - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Totley Rise: Redwing - 10-Dec

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w Warren Street

Brightside: Common Buzzard - 2 - together over President Park

Brownhills Lane: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with c60 Greylags feeding in roadside fields ; Brambling - 1 - with foraging flock of tits and chaffinches

Hillsborough: Common Buzzard - 1 - ominously circling the football ground this morning.

Mayfield Valley: Mandarin - 1 - male under feeders by Workhouse Cottages on Green Lane. My first this far up the valley. ; Dipper - 1 - feeding in river c.200 m upstream from Forge Dam; unusual this far upstream

Millhouses: Redwing - 02-Apr

Norwood Allotments: Peregrine - 1 - over east at 13:05. Only the second sighting here this year. ; Fieldfare - 17 - single group south just before lunch. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling late morning as it has frequently in the past few weeks.

Woodseats garden: Blackcap - 1 - female

Frecheville: Goosander - 5 - Frecheville pond.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Fieldfare - 12 - W ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 495 - c. roosted on Top Res - large winter count for this site

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w, Warren Street.

Brownhills Lane: 319 - 3

East Moor: Fieldfare - 50 ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 ; Siskin - 50-60 ; Bullfinch - 1

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 14 ; Moorhen - 14 ; Coot - 1 ; Mandarin - 32 ; Goosander - 5 - 2 males ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 4 - perched in beech trees ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - v unusual here

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 8 ; Short-eared Owl - 1 - ranging widely over pit top from 15.40

West Nab: Fieldfare - 47 - feeding in sheep field at dusk. ; Wren - 2 - alarm calling from wall bottom.

Aldwarke SF: Pheasant - 8 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coot - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, hunting ; Common Buzzard - 1 - adult, left SW mobbed by Kestrel ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Shoveler - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Gadwall - 13 - 6prs + 1m ; Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Redwing - 20 - in hawthorns ; Goldfinch - 8

Centenary Riverside: Cormorant - 4 - inc 3 in from N/NW, all onto river ; Moorhen - 1 ; 320 - 3 ; Mallard - 10 - 5prs + 2m, on river ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - adults, fishing in river ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - drake, NW ; Redwing - 9+ ; Fieldfare - 2 - S ; Mute Swan - 3 - W/NW @ 0830hrs ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Song Thrush - 1

Coombs Dale: Kestrel - 1 - Off Black Harry Lane

Deepcar: Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female hunting

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over sheep paddock. ; 319 - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Pheasant - 8 ; Fieldfare - 5+ - Feeding on ploughed field. ; Jay - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Goldfinch - 12

Lodge Moor garden: Mistle Thrush - 2 - Foraging in lawn ; Redwing - 8 - foraging on lawn and on berries

Longshaw: Brambling - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 105 - inc 8 1cy ; Mallard - 69 ; Black-headed Gull - c80 ; Herring Gull - 28 - W/SW