Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 15 - Noticed by their absence, very few today ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Linnet - 6 ; Goldfinch - 14 ; Reed Bunting - 8 - 5 were fly overs

Moscar Cross: Merlin - 1 - low over fields

Moscar Flat: Ring Ouzel - 4 - flew NE through gap with 3 Mistle Thrush towards Sugworth Hall

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 1 - On island

Parson*s Piece: Blackcap - 1 - juv in Rowan

Peat Pits: Stonechat - 2 - males

Silverwood Lagoon: Wigeon - 2 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Shoveler - 1 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Jay - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Swallow - 8 - a few singles south ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Rook - 1 - north

Strines Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 4 - unusual here

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 9 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 15 - inc 6 left w ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Canada Goose - 400+ ; Gadwall - 2 - left w ; Wigeon - 2 - f ; Red-crested Pochard - 4 - 4mfff found when fog cleared ; Tufted Duck - 35+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 5+ ; Lapwing - 54 ; Swallow - 5 - south ; House Martin - 4 - south ; Dunnock - 13 ; Robin - 21 ; Blackcap - 3 - mff ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 12 - 2sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 - + 3 parties

Wharncliffe Chase: Meadow Pipit - 4+ - South ; Kestrel - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - South at medium height ; Grey Heron - 1 juv ; Linnet - 150-200 - Feeding in fields next to Wharncliffe Res and often perched on wires. 2 sizeable groups dispersed locally south. ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - NE ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - 7+1 south ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; House Martin - 1+ - South ; Long-tailed Tit - 15+

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Jackdaw - 248 - 248 west 1900 to 1910

Cinder Bridge Field: Peregrine - 1 - juv f; calls heard 0750hrs, then seen hunting over fields, flushing WP flocks; probably same seen drifting SE @ 0935hrs ; Woodpigeon - 600+ - left Wentworth Park woodlands to feed on adjacent stubbles, 0715-0720hrs

Cross Hill,Ecclesfield: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Siskin - 1 - One west

Crowhole: Chiffchaff - 1 ; 319 - 3+ ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Ecclesfield: House Martin - 16+ - Local breeders feeding above library

Ecclesfield Hartley Brook: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by crow

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - upper pond at 17:15

Greasbrough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over

Heeley: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying downriver on the Sheaf

Ibbotson Wheel Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - 17:20 possibly same as in Endcliffe Park at 17:15

Manor Fields Park: Chiffchaff - 4 - Inc 2 singing birds ; Meadow Pipit - 21 - Flew south over. 06:45-07:50 ; House Martin - 2 - over west ; Swallow - 16 - single group of 16 flew low south at 8am ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - 1 on 2 over south ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Moorhen - 4 - 2adult 2 young. ; Mallard - 13 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Flew low south thru park at 13:50. ; Cormorant - c40 - group of c40 birds flew over towrds city centre at 14.40.

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 1 ; 320 - 31

New Stubbin: Jackdaw - c50 - feeding on sports pitches

New Stubbin; colliery tip: Chiffchaff - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Raven - 2 - W @ 0655hrs ; Kestrel - 1