Sightings Archive

Ulley CP: Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Willow Tit - 1 - visiting feeding station ; Coal Tit - 2 - visiting feeding station ; Robin - 07-Aug - around feeding station ; Moorhen - 3 ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Canada Goose - 1

Wardlow Mires: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 30 - c, in fields ; Herring Gull - 40 - c. in fields ; Common Gull - 10 - c,

Whiston; Pinch Mill Lane: Goldcrest - 5 ; Pheasant - 24 ; Mallard - 5prs ; Siskin - 14 - in trees by fishery ; Jay - 1 ; Stock Dove - 4 - inc one singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Coot - 1 - on fishery ; Moorhen - 7 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 22 - in paddocks ; Redwing - c80 - flying from hedgerow to feed in paddock; lots of noisy subsong ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - in paddock ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - in paddock ; Bullfinch - 1pr

Whiston; Royds Moor Farm: Stock Dove - 2 - one in aerial display ; Skylark - 01-Feb - singing

Whiston; Worrygoose Lane: Blackbird - 1 - in full song @ 0730hrs ; Greylag Goose - 2 - E @ 0745hrs

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Wickersley; Pinchwell Field: Herring Gull - c50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2+

Agden Res: Mistle Thrush - 2 - one singing ; Bullfinch - 2+ - both males ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c40 ; Tufted Duck - 2+ - only males seen ; Mallard - 20+ ; Mandarin - 33+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Blue Tit - 5+ ; Coal Tit - 3+ ; Great Tit - 3+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c8 ; Blackbird - 3+ ; Siskin - 3 ; Goldcrest - 3+

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - c200 - feeding in roadside fields

Damflask Res: Dipper - 1 - on the stream entering the reservoir ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mallard - 20+ ; Mallard hybrid - 4 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Coal Tit - 2+ ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 4+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 3+

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; 320 - 2 - Calling from stream. ; Cormorant - 1 - Over in high winds. ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - Low over site. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Hovering in wind over sheep field. ; Jay - 1 - In willows. ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 150+ - Flighty flock around site. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 10+ - In hedgerow. ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - Singing at dawn. ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Tree Sparrow - 1+ - Calling in cottage garden hedge near new bird table. ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ - Call only.

Graves Park: Brambling - 4+ - among mixed finch/tit flock around Chantreyland Meadow area ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1+ - calling ; Redwing - 80+ - feeding around Highland Cattle area

Green Moor: Brambling - 30+ - Feeding in garden ; Brambling - 30+ - photo ; Brambling - 30+ - photo ; Brambling - 30+ - photo

Hathersage Moor: Barn Owl - 1+ - Hunting over moor near Whim Plantation. Possible 2nd bird - looked smaller & darker plumage

High Storrs: Brambling - 4 - Feeding on lawn.

Kimberworth: Chaffinch - 2 - Male and female ground feeding on the debris from the sun flower heart feeder.

Longshaw: Mandarin - 16 - Flying & calling in dusk before settling at corner of pond

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - 25 - flying around over grass fields. ; Raven - 2