Sightings Archive

Hassop Station: Waxwing - 60 - still present this morning

High Street, Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Calling from trees behind old Police station. ; Waxwing - 16 - In poplar trees at rear of "The Greyhound" PH,fly-catching.

Holmesfield: Waxwing - 40+ - very flighty

Hoober: Common Buzzard - 1 - over Luke Spring Wood

Jordans Lock: Cormorant - 1

Low Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 2 - active close to lakes ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 2

Lower Walkley: Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 - flying SW over junction of Walkley Lane and Ripley St at 10:25

Middle Common: Redwing - 10 - W, ; Wren - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 7

Middle Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Magpie - 11

Morley Pond: Canada Goose - 2 ; Mallard - 30+

Mount Darnall: Carrion Crow - 66 ; Jackdaw - 41 ; Goldfinch - 26

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 11 - 4 drakes with 7 redheads. ; Goosander - 11 ; Goosander - 11

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Redwing - Oct-15 - in treetops ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 - in mixed flock

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - c20 - flock, visiting gardens

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 23

RVCP: Carrion Crow - 76 - single flock feeding ; Goosander - 16

Treeton SF: Carrion Crow - 30 ; Pied Wagtail - 14 ; Meadow Pipit - 6

Ulley Brook Bog: Fieldfare - 71 ; Redwing - 38

Upper Common, Scholes: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Linnet - 6 ; Woodpigeon - 40+ ; Kestrel - 1 - active along E edge of Raspberry Plantation at Scholes Coppice

Wentworth: Kestrel - 1 - hunting by roadside, Barrowfield Lane

Woodhouse: Waxwing - c12 - Lambcroft View at 14:00

Aughton: Greylag Goose - 80+ - feeding in field SW of Ulley CP

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 2prs ; Mute Swan - 3 - 2 ads, 1 1cy (family party) ; Cormorant - 2 - inc 1 S ; 320 - c40 - lots of chasing & noisy display ; Pochard - 2 - drakes ; Gadwall - 22 ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Mallard - 13 ; Coot - 20 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Redwing - 4 ; Goosander - 1 - drake, flew S

Cemetery Ave: Waxwing - 133 - at 12:45 - counted from photo

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Mallard - 9 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Bottom of sluice. ; Grey Heron - 1 - In set aside field. ; 319 - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Calling in Reed bed. . ; Siskin - 5+ - Over calling. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Pair coming to seed. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male. ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Skylark - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On wires. ; Fieldfare - 15 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Feeding in hedge bottom.

Graves Park: Stock Dove - 1 - a breeding bird which is probably being displaced by R N Parakeets.

Hassop Station: Waxwing - 105 - per DOS; max reported

Hollow Meadows: Barn Owl - 1 - on N side of road hunting over pastures

Leash Fen: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - per DOS

Limb Valley: Stonechat - 2 - 1M, 1F in horse fields at top of valley ; Fieldfare - 2 - on berries ; Bullfinch - 1f

Middleton Moor: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female flew around Starling roost ; Fieldfare - 130 - c. roosted ; Redwing - 35 - c. roosted ; Starling - 24500 - c. roosted in reedbed - almost exclusively from the south and west

Parkgate: Starling - c200

Rivelin Valley: Blackbird - 2 - above Little London Wheel in tree

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1

Totley Rise: Waxwing - c35 - 11:30-11:45 - in tall trees, junction of Grove Rd with Baslow Rd at Totley Rise Methodist Church until flushed by male Sparrowhawk

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - c10 - on rotary filters ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Ughill Farm: 319 - 1 - gliding/hunting over pastures ; Kestrel - 3 - hover hunting over farm and Oakes Piece area ; Red Kite - 1 - gliding low over pastures, hunting ; Starling - c50 - flock, feeding in pastures and moving around the area, sometimes with a few Fieldfares ; Fieldfare - 60+ - generally moving from tree tops in Wet Shaw Dike area westwards and sometimes landing to feed in pastures ; Redwing - c30 - feeding on berries, notably Holly berries, sometimes with Fieldfares and once flushed by Buzzard flying among trees ; Golden Plover - 2 - On Furnace Hill, flushed up from field,calling and then flying over apparently wanting to land again ; Magpie - 04-Jun ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - flew over Wet Shaw Dike area to land on Crawshaw Farm ; Linnet - 1 - male flew out of trees in Wet Shaw ; Great Tit - 1

Ulley CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2