Sightings Archive

Morley Pond: Cormorant - 1 - in flight ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1pr inc 1 left leg red ring, number? ; Mallard - 30+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Linnet - 2

New Stubbin colliery tip: Chiffchaff - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Bullfinch - 02-Mar - calling ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SE ; Stock Dove - 2 - over ; Meadow Pipit - 20 - 2 S; 14 SE; 4 SW in 2hrs ; Swallow - 5 - 1 S; 4 SW ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 2 W; 1 in calling from high to N (migrants?) ; Jay - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - left E ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Grey Partridge - 1+ - + 7 well-grown juvs on road ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 - on road ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - over ; Hobby - 1 - N/NE @ 0638hrs

Norfolk Park: Sparrowhawk - 2 - Soaring together over Park Grange Rd.

Parkgate: Cormorant - 1 - W @ 1100hrs

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Meadow Pipit - 15 - SW/S in 2hrs ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; House Martin - 9 ; Wheatear - 1 - juv (record shot) ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - 'flava' wagtails, S ; Tree Pipit - 1 - over (heard only) @ 1002hrs ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Bullfinch - 3

Peat Pits: Whinchat - 1

Ravenfield Church: Mistle Thrush - 2 - On Spire.

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 14 ; Mallard - 100 - c. ; 320 - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Common Gull - 1 - ad SW - first of autumn ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 80 - c. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 ads & 1x 1Cy ; Swallow - 80 - c. drifted SW ; House Martin - 100 - c. drifted SW ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - flew S calling ; Tree Pipit - 4 - 3 flew SW + 1 flushed from Fairthorn Clough into nearby trees - sat up calling and pumping its tail ; Whinchat - 3 - ad & juv by Middle Res + separate juv in Fairthorn Clough ; Willow Warbler - 6 - around res perimter ; Chiffchaff - 7 - around res perimeter ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Middle Res ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - by Bottom Res ; Raven - 3 ; Whitethroat - 2 - juvs by Middle Res ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Grey Heron - 1 - ad flew high to S (pretending to be something interesting)

Rivelin Valley: Common Buzzard - 1 - Single young bird flying up over Rivelin Valley calling for food.

Rocher Head Fields: Stonechat - 6+ ; Whinchat - 1

Rowland: 319 - 1 - A flying low pursued by f kestrel alarming

Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 5 - inc 4 in from N ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 37 ; 319 - 2 - around ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - north ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Hobby - 1 - 2 sightings 08:45 & 09:41 ; Lapwing - 70 ; Black-headed Gull - 450+ ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 27 - in --most jvs ; Swift - 50+ ; Sand Martin - 80+ ; House Martin - 60 - c60 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - on dam ; Blackcap - 7 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 44 - inc 20+ on filterbeds ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ ; Carrion Crow - 30+ - most feeding in fields ; Greenfinch - 9 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 5 - max soaring high over, 0905-0920hrs

Ughill: Goldfinch - c..50 - On thistles ; Whitethroat - 1 - Male in brambles

Walkley Bank: Swift - 1

Broomhead Res: Mandarin - 1 - Female

Charlton Brook, High Green: Long-tailed Tit - 24 - Part of a large mixed tit group watched flying across a Greengate Lane near Bridge Pub. ; Blue Tit - 21 ; Great Tit - 11 ; Goldcrest - 2+

Ewden Height: 319 - 7 - 1st up early 6.15 calling then upto 4 in air together towards Broomhead Res. ; Mistle Thrush - 1