Sightings Archive

Linacre Res: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 2

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - c50

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - In watercourse at 8am ; Moorhen - 5 ; Mallard - 8 - 5 drakes ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Linnet - 1 - single singing bird. ; Robin - 6 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 23 - 7 on 16 over ; Blackbird - 12 - minimum 12 birds mostly male. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - low west at 07:24. ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Collared Dove - 4 - 2 pair.

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 17 ; Lapwing - 9 ; Fieldfare - 22 ; Redwing - 1 ; Skylark - 9 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Curlew - 40 ; Lapwing - 38 ; 320 - 65 ; Gadwall - 2 - A pair still present ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2 pairs ; Goosander - 1 - A redhead in for 10 mins at 14.55

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 3 prs ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1pr ; Mallard - 1+ ; Coot - 1+ ; Pheasant - 1+

Orgreave Lakes: Siskin - 20 - Between bridges

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 4 ; Siskin - 6 ; 327 - 1

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c380

Pike Lowe, Midhope: Curlew - 2 ; Raven - 4 ; Kestrel - 1

Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 7

Ringinglow to Redmires: Curlew - 40+ - 40 to 50

Rivelin Valley: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Dipper - 1 ; Raven - 4 - Flew over Bole Hill Road at end of Walkley, and over Toft Wood

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 11 - 3 br plumage

Thrybergh CP: Grey Partridge - 5 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Fieldfare - 15 ; Brambling - 16+

Walkley: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Feeding on berries in garden

Wingfield school: Mistle Thrush - 2 - on playing field

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - 1

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 33 - (inc 6 2cy) SW between 0726-0825hrs ; Cormorant - 1 - SW ; Peregrine - 1 - Hunting flock of Pigeons over Liberty melting shop 10.25 then circling over at 15.00 same location.

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 2 - adult male on water tower briefly; adult female on pylon from 0700-1000hrs at least ; Stock Dove - 2 - dispaying ; Cormorant - 3 - max on pylon

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - c40

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 4+ - 09:20

Millhouses: Siskin - 6 - The first of the winter for this Pingle Road garden.

Netherthorpe, Sheffield: Mistle Thrush - Pair - Feeding and calling near tram stop

Norton Lees garden: Song Thrush - 1 - First in garden for some time

Orgreave Lakes: Mute Swan - 3 imm ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Gadwall - 19 ; Lapwing - 23 ; Goldeneye - c5 ; Linnet - c20 ; Redshank - 2 ; Wigeon - c23 ; 320 - c5 ; Pochard - c17 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Heard ; Bullfinch - 1m ; Redshank - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 - On island ; Goldeneye - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair by Wheel Wash ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 6+ - 1 S; 5 N + others over unseen ; Canada Goose - 2 - W ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - flew to golf course ; Greenfinch - 4 - inc 1 singing ; Goldfinch - 32 - in small parties ; Herring Gull - 9 - all SW ; Black-headed Gull - 50-60 - SW in parties 14 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Mute Swan - 1 - S, then SW @ 0858hrs