Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 55 ; Gadwall - 10 ; Pochard - 14 ; 320 - 4 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Lapwing - C50

Treeton Dyke: Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Black-headed Gull - 155+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Gadwall - 28+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 3

Upper Midhope: Greylag Goose - c95 - feeding in fields ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 - feeding with Greylags, one bird with bad limp.

Wharncliffe Side: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female

Whiteley Woods: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding in mill leat

Baslow: Goldcrest - 1 - Feeding in monkey puzzle tree

Bramley: Blackbird - 1 - First bird of the year calling in observers garden ; Robin - 1 - Singing. ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - On school field.

Canklow: Pink-footed Goose - c150 - NW at 14:50

Catcliffe Flash: Black-headed Gull - 40+ - Sat on ice ; 320 - 29 ; Gadwall - 36 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Males ; Wigeon - 1 - Male ; Shoveler - 1 - Male ; 319 - 2 - 1 mobbed by crow

Crosspool garden: Brambling - 1 - Male

Dore: Pink-footed Goose - c170 - single skein flying NW at 14.50

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Brambling - 1 ; Linnet - c300

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 - Main Res. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On stream outflow near road. ; Kestrel - 1 - Perched over road. ; Fieldfare - 4+ ; Redwing - 1 - Over calling. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Single Male. ; Siskin - 3+ ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Coming to kitchen scraps. ; Magpie - 2

Five Weirs Walk: Feral Pigeon - 30 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - Female ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Magpie - 2

Flanderwell: Starling - 60+ - In trees at end of Freeman Road.

Fulwood: Brambling - 1 - around feeders in observer's garden ; Blackcap - 1 - female feeding on sunflower hearts in observer's garden ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Redwing - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Goldfinch - 14 - at feeders ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Starling - 30 - noisy party singing in trees in observer's garden

Gleadless Valley LNR: Jay - 2 heard

Graves Park: Fieldfare - 1 - over ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2+

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 5 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Blackbird - 6

Greystones: Redwing - 2 - Observer's garden ; Fieldfare - 1 - in garden, 1st of winter ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 2

Handsworth: Pink-footed Goose - c489 - skeins of c200 and c289 low NW at 12:30 and 12:40 ; Pink-footed Goose - C260 - Flighing northwest also seen by AD

Hangingwater Garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling 07:30 first record of year ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2

Mayfield Valley: Siskin - 80 - Mobile flock on Clough Lane ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 30 ; Carrion Crow - 14 - Single party in fields by Mark Lane

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1m ; Siskin - 6 - Feeding in alder

Millhouses: Blackcap - 2 - Male and Female still in Stowe Avenue garden. ; Siskin - 1 - In the observer’s garden.

Moss Valley, upper: Jay - 1 heard ; Long-tailed Tit - 2