Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Reed Bunting - 10 ; Yellowhammer - 3

Whiteley Woods: Bullfinch - 1 - Female ; Dipper - 2 - Together ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 3+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - Visiting potential nest site ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 2 - adult pair on incinerator building ; Herring Gull - c40 - Warren St ; Great Black-backed Gull - c15 ; Common Gull - 1 - adult

Barlow Brook: Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - 25+ ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; House Sparrow - up to 12 - all 12 in one bush - good to see that, these days

Brincliffe Edge: Goldfinch - 40 - unusually large flock in garden

Five Weirs Walk: Goosander - 7

Green Moor: Brambling - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 10+

Hangingwater garden: Blue Tit - 1 - prospecting nesting box

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - at 19:25 calling.

Kiveton community woodland: Little Egret - 1 - In stream at north end

Manor Fields Park: Goosander - 1 - male flew low west 07:30.

Norfolk Park: Greenfinch - c2 - At least one singing male in hedge alongside Guildford Avenue

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 6 ; 324 - 1 - Mink ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - male ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Goosander - 2 - pair ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - fem

River Sheaf, Broadfield Road: Mandarin - 11

Salmon Pastures: Chiffchaff - 1

Silverwood (pit wood ): Nuthatch - 6+ - Seen and heard calling throughout the wood, ; Brambling - 05-Jun ; Chaffinch - 10+ ; Treecreeper - 5 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Great Tit - 7 ; Blue Tit - 9 ; Woodpigeon - 50+

Silverwood Pit Top: Nuthatch - 2 - In adjacent woodland to South. ; Treecreeper - 2 - Calling, and feeding with mixed Tit flock. ; Long-tailed Tit - 08-Sep ; Great Tit - 5 ; Blue Tit - 7 ; Kestrel - 2 - Pair together over the woodland male and female appreciable size difference, displaying. ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - On lagoon, and overhead ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Not much on lagoon due to much of it being frozen. ; 319 - 1 - Low over head hanging in wind. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Magpie - 3

Tankersley: Fieldfare - 1 - Near M1 roundabout

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 17 ; Greylag Goose - 186 ; Canada Goose - 121 ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 18 ; Greylag Goose - 186 ; Canada Goose - 121 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Water Rail - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 100 - n ; Little Owl - 1 ; Robin - 21 - 12sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 5 ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Goldfinch - 40 ; Bullfinch - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 11 ; Yellowhammer - 6 ; Brambling - 26

Tyzack*s Dam: Mandarin - 7 5m 2f ; Black-headed Gull - 14 ; 321 - 1 ; Goosander - 1m ; Coot - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 40 ; Jack Snipe - 4 - phonescoped shot

Aldwarke SF: Bullfinch - 4 ; Magpie - 13+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c80 ; 320 - 1 - flushed from frozen lagoon by Fox ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - treatment works ; Herring Gull - 5 - SW