Sightings Archive

Green Moor: House Sparrow - 10+ - At feeders

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2000 - c2000 roosted this evening ; Goosander - 1 - redhead left to the south ; 320 - 21 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2000 - c. roosted ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - ads / near ads ; Herring Gull - 4 - ads ; Black-headed Gull - 220 - c. roosted ; Jackdaw - 350 - roosted in small plantation ; Pied Wagtail - 50 - roosting in reedbed

Millhouses: Meadow Pipit - 12 - SW ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Marriott Road garden

Silver Wood: Meadow Pipit - c.160 - SSE 08.30 - 09.20 including one flock of 80 ; Goldcrest - 6 - a few in woods either side of Hollings Lane ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing along disused railway line ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - near r/way line pond ; Siskin - 1 - SW ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Skylark - 9 - in stubble to north of woods

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 7 - 4a3j ; Cormorant - 7 ; Mute Swan - 12 - 3j ; Canada Goose - 200+ ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Lapwing - 83 ; Meadow Pipit - 15 - 10+5 south ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - party

Thrybergh garden: Blackcap - 1 - Feeding on elderberries. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Same elder tree as Blackcap. ; House Sparrow - c20 - To feeders. ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 - Suet feeders ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - 6 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Robin - 1 ; Goldfinch - 5

Wadsley Common garden: Blue Tit - 40+ - Through garden with mixed tit flock totalling over 50. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Pair-first time we have had 2 in the garden.

Wharncliffe Chase (farmland below to the east): Stock Dove - 50-70 - Feeding in fields with Woodpigeons ; Yellowhammer - 9+ - 9 seen with other heard calling ; Jay - 03-May ; Skylark - 2 - Rose from fields and flew locally north ; Cormorant - 1 - SE ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Chaffinch - 15+ - Groups forming in area ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ - SW ; Starling - 10 - flew locally south ; Swallow - 2 south

Brinsworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male successfully taking House Sparrow in observer's garden

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing

Firsby Res: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling before dawn.

Five wiers walk,wicker to washford bridge: Mallard - 71 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Flew from washford bridge area.

Greystones: Chiffchaff - 1 - Observer's garden ; Nuthatch - 1 - infrequent visitor to observer's garden

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 1100 - roosted ; Common Gull - 2 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 270

Lowedges: House Martin - 1+ - young calling in nest on Low Edges Road.

Malin Bridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing quietly in garden

Parkwood Springs: Peregrine - 2 - over Oakham Drive at 15:37. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Circled low over at 15:30 gained height and seen off by corvids.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - singles ; Little Grebe - 6 - 3aa3j ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 13 - pr +3j +8a ; Canada Goose - 420+ ; Gadwall - 1 - male ; Pochard - 1 - fem ; Red-crested Pochard - 6 - 1m5f ; Tufted Duck - 50 ; Lapwing - 110 - inc. 35 circled 75 down ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Pied Wagtail - 10+ - inc 6 + down in fields ; Robin - 20 ; Chiffchaff - 9 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Abbeydale: House Martin - 5 - flying around traditional nesting site on Abbeydale Rd at c19:00

Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult Warren St

Bingham Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Dipper - 1

Bole Hill Rec: 319 - 1 - overhead, mobbed by crows.

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 2+ - ad pr + single juv ; Wigeon - 18 ; Gadwall - 15+ ; 320 - 3 ; Shoveler - 5