Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 25 - Left down Coombs Dale at 16.00 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 700 - Roost much smaller than recently ; Golden Plover - 2 ; Goosander - 2 - Pair ; Fieldfare - 54 - Appeared to be roosting in shelter belt ; Pied Wagtail - 70 - Feeding on shoreline before flying to roost ; Starling - 12000+ - In between 16.00 and 16.30

Midhope Beck: Fieldfare - 300 - At least 300

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 3 - a brief visit

Moss Road, Totley: Willow Tit - 1 - Reported on feeders

Old Brampton: Redwing - 5+ ; Mistle Thrush - 01-Feb ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - heard only

Ravenfield Park: Tufted Duck - 2 ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting high in a treetops. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over calling.

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 5 - on Top Res ; Fieldfare - 30 - flew E ; Peregrine - 1 - adult perched up in clear area west of Top Res - later seen mobbing Common Buzzard ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 3

Rivelin: Grey Heron - 1 - being mobbed in flight by 2 crows

RVCP, Main Lake: Goldeneye - 6 - 5f, 2m ; 324 - 2 - Late flying Common Darters at two different places

Stanedge Pole: Pink-footed Goose - 110 - flew NW at 08:00 hrs ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Red Grouse - 6

Wentworth Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 - over ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on pylon ; Stock Dove - 8+ ; Peregrine - 1 - adult, low to W/SW @ 0742hrs ; Starling - c30 - W ; Jay - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Redwing - 19 - inc 15 W/NW ; Pheasant - hundreds! ; Red-legged Partridge - hundreds!

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: 320 - 2 - females ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 20-25 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 1cy

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Goldcrest - 1+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over ; Jay - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - N/NW ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mallard - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - 15 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 1 - Mobbing common buzzard

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 1 - Pale bird (possible tristis?) In bramble scrub to the north of village next to main road

Whitwell Moor: Brambling - 6+ - in beeches near southern end of Millstones Wood ; Brambling - 10+ - in beeches near northern end of Millstones Wood

Woodhouse Washlands: Wigeon - 2 - at South end on flood ; Common Gull - 2 - 1cy's

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

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Redwing - 10+ ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 02-Mar ; Cormorant - 1 - very rare round here ; Pheasant - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Goldfinch - 10+

Derwent Res: Brambling - c10 - feeding at roadside with Chaffinches ; Chaffinch - c30

Ecclesall: Snipe - 1 - recorded by AudioMoth device at 22:34 hrs - single call which also matches sonogram for this species

Foulstone Delph: Brambling - c60 - in flight, from Hollingdale over behind Foulstone cottage.

Ladybower Res, North arm: Mandarin - 21 - flushed by fishing boats

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 1 - first of the season

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 4 - imm male and 3 redheads

Redmires conduit: Peregrine - 1 - over putting up about 50 Woodpigeons

Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 7 - 2m and 5f ; Lapwing - c40 - on west bank and in flight ; Golden Plover - c 150 - c 150 with lapwing and regular flights over res. ; Canada Goose - 14 - On bank towards SW end of Res

Stubley Hollow: Redwing - 31 ; House Sparrow - 23 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1

Thrybergh CP: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling on southern boundary at 23:55

Ughill: Brambling - 5+ - feeding with Chaffinches on Beech mast at side of Hoar Stones Road ; Chaffinch - c30