Sightings Archive

Millhouses garden: Brambling - 1 - female

Mitchell Field: Barn Owl - 1 - quartering ; Kestrel - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Linnet - 20

Shirecliffe: Lesser Redpoll - 3 - feeding on nyjer seed ; Brambling - 6 - 4 males 2 females, a new high count for the garden.

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Coot - 8 ; Little Grebe - 1 - first 'trilling' bird of year ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 80 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 1 singing ; Skylark - 8 - 2 singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 'drumming' in The Close ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1

Stanage Edge, below: Tawny Owl - 2 - calling ; Woodcock - 1

Wadsley: Waxwing - 8 - 8 on Vainor Road at 07.45

Worrall: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - One ringed bird on nyger feeder

Bramley: Pink-footed Goose - c80 - W over Morrisons at 10.15.

Ellesmere Green: Waxwing - 30+ - 9 at 09:10, 30+ at 12:45

Forge Dam: 320 - 2 - M&F

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Female

Lodge Moor: Siskin - 1 - with House Sparrow flock in garden hedge ; Tree Sparrow - 1 - With House Sparriw flock in Garden Hedge

Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male ; Brambling - 2 - 1m, 1f

Pit-house West: Lesser Redpoll - 16 ; Linnet - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Into roost bittern pool ; Green Woodpecker - 2 - Pair in same tree ; Pied Wagtail - 30 - Into roost Bittern Pool ; BITTERN - 1 - Showing well for 10-15 minutes before roost 1745 hrs ; Kestrel - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1

R Don, Lady*s Bridge: Goosander - 2 - Male and female

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 70+ ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 2

Shillito Wood: Blackbird - 1 ; Blue Tit - 15 ; Brambling - 3 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Coal Tit - 6 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Great Tit - 10 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pheasant - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 7 ; Robin - 2 ; Siskin - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 6

Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - singing in scrubby woodland near track known as Bramall Lane (part of Steel Valley Walk). ; Lapwing - 4 - in field near Allen Croft. ; Lapwing - 1 - in field off Lee House Lane.

Stubley Hollow: Yellowhammer - 24 - Single flock ; Fieldfare - 80 ; Goldfinch - 32 ; Greenfinch - 13 ; 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 13 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 42 - inc 2pr ad with 3-2,2nd cy with them ; Greylag Goose - 3 - in ; Canada Goose - 49 - 45in also feral grey ; Gadwall - 8 - 4pr ; Pochard - 6 - 1f ; Tufted Duck - 23 - 4f ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 117+ - inc.13 SE, 4 on breeding site ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Common Gull - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Dunnock - 18 - 11 singing ; Robin - 27 - 13 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Fieldfare - 14 - west ; Great Tit - 11 ; Blue Tit - 14 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Rook - 10 - north, 4-1-1-4 ; Carrion Crow - 14 ; Chaffinch - 16 ; Brambling - 7 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Greenfinch - 9 - inc.7 at feed stat ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - males, 1singing