Sightings Archive

Damflask Res: Robin - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Drakehouse: Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on streetlight by roadside, Eckington Way

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 5 ; Goosander - 1 - Red Head arrived on large Res presumably from TCP. ; Coot - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 - Squealing in flooded area of Willows near feeder stream. ; Woodcock - 1 - On small Res Dam wall in undergrowth. ; Grey Heron - 2 - Down in set aside field. ; 319 - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - mobbed until flew over Main Res. ; Redwing - 10+ - Paddock hedge. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Coming to seed. ; Goldfinch - 10+

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 9

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 singing away

Middleton Moor: Mute Swan - 1 - imm still present ; Shelduck - 1 - ad on No. 4 lagoon ; 320 - 10 - visible by reedbed ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Starling - 19,500 - c. roosted on No.3 lagoon from 3pm onwards - mostly arriving from south ; Magpie - 17 - roosted in hawthorns by No. 4 lagoon

Millhouses: Blackcap - 1 - Male in Stowe Avenue garden

Morley St Allotments: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - Juv still present ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from woodland between bridges. ; Siskin - 35 - Feeding in alders along river.

Ranmoor: Pink-footed Goose - 5+ - Flying west in dark at 16:50

Rickett Bank/Ughill Brook: Blue Tit - 4+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ - flock flitting about in trees ; Magpie - 1 ; 319 - 1 - being mobbed by crow ; Carrion Crow - 1 - mobbing Buzzard ; Mandarin - 7+ - M + F on pool at bottom of Ughill Brook ; Mallard - 2+ - in pool at bottom of Ughill Brook ; Great Tit - 1 ; Redwing - 20+ - flock flying over ; Blackbird - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - with Redwing flock

Stocksbridge: Waxwing - 17 - Still around the library and coop.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 27 ; Tufted Duck - 72 ; Goldeneye - 1 - female ; Pochard - 9 ; Goosander - 2 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Pink-footed Goose - 160+ - 110 west and 50 SW, late morning ; Water Rail - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 20+ ; Black-headed Gull - c150 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; 319 - 1

Ulley: Fieldfare - 300+ - At least 300 in forks between village and Penny Hill.

Waterthorpe: Song Thrush - 1 - full song, Crystal Peaks Meadows

Whittington Moor: Waxwing - 22 - "near the roundabout" per DOS

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Grey Heron - 5

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 32 - 5 juvs ; Herring Gull - c140 - including striking leucistic bird ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult

Barkers Park: Song Thrush - 1 - feeding close to hawthorn hedge ; Blackbird - 10+ - 8 feeding alongside hawthorn hedge ; Herring Gull - 1 - briefly across football pitches ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - active around car park ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Robin - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+

Broomhead Res: Coal Tit - 15+ - Quite a flock on and around Margaret's Seat feeders ; Great Tit - 4 - also on feeders esp peanuts ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 4 - on several trees plus mixed seed/mealworms ; Nuthatch - 3 - mainly on fat blocks ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - flew over ; Robin - 2 ; 319 - 1+ - 1-2 calling from conifers

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 4 - in the air together at 11:00

Chancet Wood: Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Herring Gull - 3 - Over. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting in willows. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Feeding in hedge bottom. ; Fieldfare - 50+ - Flushed from set aside field. ; Siskin - 1 - Over calling. ; Goldfinch - 30+ - Feeding on ground in woodland. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Down in set aside field.

Graves Park lower lake: Goosander - 7 - 5 male, 2 redheads

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 10+ - Again to feeders mid morning ; Lesser Redpoll - 1