Sightings Archive

Rother Valley CP: Goosander - 3 ; Coot - 95 ; Moorhen - 18 ; Herring Gull - 90+ ; Black-headed Gull - 56 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - Display ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 12+ - Singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Brief bursts of song, Small Lake

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 54 ; Tufted Duck - 36 ; Shoveler - 2 - pair ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Cormorant - 5 - 5 flew over ; Gadwall - 2 - pair ; Water Rail - 2 ; Blackbird - 14 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Redwing - 54 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 8 - Bit of an influx this morning ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Skylark - 6

Wadsley Common: Grey Heron - 1 - Unusual here.

Wadsley Common garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Carrying nesting material.

Walkley garden: Goldfinch - 2 - Pair gathering nest material from conifers

Wharncliffe Chase: Curlew - 2 - farmland fringe ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - a pair prospecting nest site ; Redwing - c25 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 4 - All males singing in close proximity in fields off Bank Lane. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

70 Acre Wood: Kestrel - 2 - Pair, male hunting, female perched on tree top @13.05 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Pair displaying well over , courtship display @13.30 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair eating tree buds. ; Goldfinch - 3

Agden Res: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Greylags in fields to SW, different bird to Damflask so two in the area. ; Curlew - 27 - in fields to S ; Greylag Goose - 11

Agden Rocher: Meadow Pipit - c90 - feeding in fields below Rocher. ; Redwing - c150 - in beech trees near barn. ; Fieldfare - 3+ - with redwing flock. ; Cormorant - 1 - over . ; Peregrine - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Stonechat - 3 - 2m 1f . ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Snipe - 2 - both displaying.

Bamford Moor: Curlew - 5+ - Calling

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - 6+

Brown Edge Farm: Golden Plover - 355 - a murmuration!

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 1 - male ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3m+1f ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Carr House Lane: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling in copse ; Curlew - 1

Damflask Res: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Canadas by Oaks Lane

Ecclesfield Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Calling.

Endcliffe Student Village~pond: Moorhen - 7 - 2 parents and 5 small chicks

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 2 - Pair building nest in garden ; Siskin - 2 - Pair to feeders

Hail Mary Woods: Redwing - 20+ ; 319 - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 4

Hallam Moor: Red Grouse - 4 - Calling ; Meadow Pipit - 8

Holdworth: Little Owl - 1

Howbrook Dam: Cormorant - 12 max.

Hudson*s Rough: Moorhen - 2 - 1 pair @ pond

Hudson*s Rough,SE of f/p: Woodpigeon - 5+ - at least 1 singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - display flight over Remount Road

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 2 - male singing, female on fat balls for first time this winter

Midhope Res area: Curlew - 49 ; Siskin - 2