Sightings Archive

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Corvid - 20+

Shepherd*s Plantation: 319 - 2 - Soaring over wood, one in "stooping" display.

Shirecliffe: Pink-footed Goose - 76 - E over Herries Rd 16:20

Silver Wood: Siskin - 2 - in birches near r/way line pond

Ughill Moors: Golden Plover - 10

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 1 - in observers garden

Cinder Bridge Field: Pheasant - 35+ - 24+ cocks ; Red-legged Partridge - 5+ ; Woodpigeon - c100

Cinder Hills: Robin - 1+ - Song and calls. ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling.

Crowhole: 319 - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jackdaw - 30+

Fulwood: Tree Sparrow - 1 - Watched for 15 mins in hawthorns with Goldfinches and House Sparrows behind observer's garden this morning. Presumed male as it gave several bursts of song. Garden tick! ; Blackbird - 8 - around observer's garden this morning - marked influx

Green Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 140 - c140 NE at 11:00

Kimberworth: Grey Heron - 1 - Perched at the top of a tall tree at the bottom of the garden for about 10 minutes.

New Stubbin: Black-headed Gull - 41 - mobile flock

New Stubbin; colliery tip: Kestrel - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 6 ; Jay - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 7 - 'local' birds, over ; Reed Bunting - 2 - SW ; Redwing - 14 - 7 SW/W; 7 'in' ; Song Thrush - 1 - in from high to NE ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1 NE; 1 W ; Starling - 12 - SW ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - 3+1, all S ; Canada Goose - 1 - NE, then N ; Greenfinch - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - E ; Skylark - 2 - S ; Bullfinch - 01-Feb - calling ; Siskin - 01-Feb - over, unseen ; Rook - 1 - over ; Chaffinch - 1 - S ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - W ; Swallow - 1 - S @ 0855hrs

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 38 ; Golden Plover - 21 - with lapwings. ; Little Owl - 1 - on stone wall. ; Jackdaw - 68 - heading east at dusk. ; Rook - 19 - sat in hawthorns at swan neck area.

R Don, Effingham St: Common Buzzard - 3 - low W towards Burngreave ; Kestrel - 2 - low W

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - on playing field ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Skylark - 4 - brief song

Scholes Coppice: Treecreeper - 1+ - calls ; Woodpigeon - 40+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 11 ; Cormorant - 6 - inc.2j ; Mute Swan - 10 - inc 4j ; Canada Goose - 73 - +1white col.feral ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Pochard - 12 - 8m4f ; Tufted Duck - 67 ; 319 - 1 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 100 - circa ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - imm.s ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Dunnock - 28 - 2sing ; Robin - 15 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 17 - + ; Blackbird - 16 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Great Tit - 13 ; Blue Tit - 13 ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 - + in 2 flock ; House Sparrow - 10 - + ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Upper Common, Scholes: Red-legged Partridge - 2+ - Flushed from ditch. ; Pheasant - 4+ - Feeding in field margin adj to Scholes Coppice. ; Skylark - 2+ - inc 1 singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 1+ - calling.

Wincobank Wood: Common Buzzard - 2 - presumed different to Eff St birds

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 10

Derwent Res: Pink-footed Goose - 100+ - 11:30 - high across Derwent Res. heading west i 2 skeins. ; Mandarin - 20 - Around 20 males and females roosting on res bank under overhanging tree branches below Gores Farm

Ewden Height: Woodpigeon - 1830 south - 7.45-9.30 ; Redwing - 440 south ; Stock Dove - 6 south ; Chaffinch - 110 south ; Jackdaw - 26 south ; Meadow Pipit - 210 south ; Pied Wagtail - 51 south ; Skylark - 9 south