Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Blackbird - 32+ - influx this morning ; Fieldfare - 30 ; Redwing - 10 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Starling - 80+ ; Reed Bunting - 2

Upper Common, Scholes: Fieldfare - 15+ - in scrub behind Shepherd's Plantation ; Carrion Crow - 30+

Wentworth Park: Corvid - c200 - inc 1 "pied" Jackdaw

Intake: Waxwing - 40 - Larger flock today, numbers grew from 6 to c40 throughout the morning. ; Waxwing - 100+ - Holly Grove Rd - Very large group circling above Chatsworth Grange Care Home seemed to comprise 3 individual parties coming together, maybe as a pre-roost gathering. Flew off in a SW direction at 13:20.

Malin Bridge: Greenfinch - 2 - feeding in garden, first here for many years.

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - C160 ; Pochard - 16 ; 320 - 2 ; Gadwall - 22 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Feeding station ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Cormorant - 5

Banner Cross: Raven - 1 - Harassed by two crows over Ecclesall Rd

Beauchief Golf Course: Mallard - 14 ; Mandarin - 17 - Top pond

Big Moor: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting at dusk

Crowhole: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - first seen here in a long time ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Firsby Res: Water Rail - 2

Fulwood garden: Treecreeper - 1 - unusual here

Intake: Waxwing - 23 - arrived by 08:00 in trees to side of Chatsworth Grange Care Home. Visible from Holly Grove. ; Waxwing - 30 - at 09:00

Keppels Field: Lesser Redpoll - 10 - feeding on birch

Leash Fen: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - In birches Leash Fen near Shilllito Wood, then flew over road to Foxlane Plantation perching in tops of beeches. ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunting in afternoon ; Raven - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Pochard - 60+ ; Stonechat - 6 ; Stonechat - 6 ; Raven - 2 ; Wigeon - 40+ ; Stonechat - 6 ; 327 - 8

Pebley Pond: Tufted Duck - 8 ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Mute Swan - 3 - adult pair and a first-winter ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - on ice

Ramsley Moor: Pink-footed Goose - c90 - a skein of c90 flying SW at 10:30 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Grey Shrike - 1 - reported by DOS

RVCP: Tufted Duck - 72 ; Carrion Crow - 68 - single flock feeding on the 'lawns'

Scholes: Fieldfare - 20+ - moving along hawthorn trees at Little Lane ; Starling - 30+ - around Little Lane

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 22 - one bird rescued ; Pink-footed Goose - 80+ - flew NW ; Tufted Duck - 160+ ; Goldeneye - 6 - 2M, 4RH ; Pochard - 16 ; 320 - 4 ; Gadwall - 20 ; Grey Partridge - 4 ; Goldeneye - 6 ; Pochard - 16

Wales: Little Egret - 1 - flew over heading low W ; Linnet - 180 - Sizeable flock feeding in fields ; Brambling - 80 - feeding in fields ; Reed Bunting - 2 - feeding with finch flock ; Chaffinch - 60 - feeding in fields

Crookes Valley Park: Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - 4+ - in holly tree, in a mixed flock with Blackbirds ; Blackbird - 3+ ; Blue Tit - 3+ ; Great Tit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 35 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Mallard - 14 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 3 - juvenile ; Cormorant - 1 - immature bird on pond

Crosspool: Waxwing - 43 - feeding on berries Manchester Road 15:10

Dore: Waxwing - 14 - Feeding at junction of Bushey Wood Rd and Gilleyfield Ave at 10:00

Greave*s Piece: Barn Owl - 1

Grenoside Crematorium: Tawny Owl - 1 - mobbed by Blackbirds in the crematorium car park. RIP Tony.

Intake: Waxwing - 30+ - in trees to side of Chatsworth Grange Nursing Home at 13:30.

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - high over Oaks Lane shops, causing FPs to scatter

Leadmill Bridge: Canada Goose - c 23 - Field on Hathersage side of Bridge