Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Chiffchaff - 7 - 2 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 27+ - inc.6+6+15+

Thrybergh Tip: Blackcap - 1 ; Robin - 4 ; Wren - 2 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blackbird - 8 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Mallard - 97 ; Gadwall - 73 ; 320 - 32 ; Shoveler - 9 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Linnet - 8 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 4 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 15 ; Jackdaw - 7 ; Jay - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 4

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - feeding in ploughed field, harassed by 2 Carrion Crows. ; Skylark - 1+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ - calls

Wadsley Common garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Swallow - 2 - South over garden.

Walkley garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male calling from top of birch. ; Long-tailed Tit - 11+ - Passing through trees with mixed tits ; Chiffchaff - 1 - single with mixed tits

Wharncliffe Res (farmland to east): Stonechat - 1 - Flycatching around field borders 16.45 ; Yellowhammer - 10+ - Feeding in stubble ; Chaffinch - 30+ - 2-3 groups ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - south ; Stock Dove - 40+

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - f with mixed tit party ; Blackbird - c15 - party feeding on yew berries

Hangingwater garden: Long-tailed Tit - 7 - first seen in garden for months

Middleton Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 18 ; Mallard - 6 ; 320 - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 40 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 1 ; Golden Plover - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 368 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Magpie - 3 ; Jackdaw - 250 - Leaving roost site ; Rook - 11 ; Carrion Crow - 30 ; Raven - 2 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Skylark - 7 ; Swallow - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Wren - 3 ; Starling - 10 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Robin - 3 ; Stonechat - 4 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 185 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 15 ; Reed Bunting - 6

Morehall tip R.Don: Jay - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 - heading east. ; Robin - 5 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Mallard - 7 - on swollen river. ; Mandarin - 1 - male with mallards. ; Pheasant - 2 - feeding on beech mast.

Redmires Bottom Res: Swallow - 5 - ar 17:00

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Mallard - 175 - c. increase noted ; Pintail - 4 - feeding on Middle Res with Mallard ; Wigeon - 1 - amongst Mallard on Middle Res ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 3