Sightings Archive

Rawmarsh; Rosehill Park: Stock Dove - 3prs - at least 3 pairs, with song and aerial display noted ; Pink-footed Goose - c240 - c150 W @ 0655hrs; 87 W @ 0658hrs

Rawmarsh; Warren Vale: Redwing - 14 - in horse paddock ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male, in horse paddock ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - female, on wires ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - by entrance to recycling centre

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 103 - 103 roosting at 17:30

Silverwood: Tawny Owl - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling. ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling. ; Coal Tit - 1

Stannington, Moorwood Lane: Lapwing - 30 - Feeding on ground with 15 Starling ; Starling - 15 - Feeding on ground with 30 Lapwing ; Skylark - 2 - Singing in flight ; Rook - 6

Swinton Common; Blackamoor Road: Stock Dove - 1pr - in adjacent field ; Greylag Goose - 3 - NW ; Skylark - several - singing over adjacent fields ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr - in roadside hedge ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr - over towards Lawn Plantn

Swinton Common; Lawn Plantn: Jay - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flying through woodland

Swinton; Pottery Farm: 320 - 1 - drake, on pond ; Moorhen - 2 - on pond ; Mallard - 2 - drakes, on pond ; Stock Dove - 3 - 1 singing + 1pr ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling

Swinton; Pottery Ponds: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 6 - 4m; 2f ; Moorhen - 1pr

Swinton; Three-cornered Plantn: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1

Thrybergh CP: Stonechat - 1 - Male in field between Thrybergh lane and disused railway. ; Water Rail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 30 ; Black-headed Gull - 200c - Most leaving Northwards at dusk with other Gulls. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 24 ; Grey Heron - 2 - Arriving at dusk to fish ; Linnet - 50c - On adjacent game cover crop field ; Yellowhammer - 10 - With Linnet. ; 319 - 4 ; Siskin - 20c

Ughill: Curlew - 8 - Calling in flight

Walkworth Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1+ - 1 singing ; Blackbird - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1+ - 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - courtship behaviour ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Walkworth Wood, W of steps: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Walkworth Woods: Blue Tit - 1+

Warren Vale Community Woodland: Bullfinch - 1 ; Siskin - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Jay - 1

Warren Vale LNR: Nuthatch - 2 - 1 singing ; Magpie - 1 - carrying nest material ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing, Birch Wood

Wath Wood: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 2 - In observers garden

White Lee Moor: Snipe - 1+ - drumming and chipping

Baslow: Brambling - 1 - Male again on feeder

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 5 - 5 in the air together at 0735

Chapeltown: 319 - 5 - Circling/calling 10.45

Elsecar Res: Raven - 2 - flew low NW @10:22

Graves Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Handsworth garden: Brambling - 1 - Female on seed hopper. First one seen on garden !

Infirmary Road: Siskin - 100+ - feeding in alder trees in the Tesco carpark at 07:45

Ladybower Res, North arm: Oystercatcher - 2 - feeding with Canada Geese on meadows by reservoir.

Longshaw: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 8 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 ; 324 - 3 - Red Deer. Three stags ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - inc one with a gold 'poll'

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 150 - Roosting art dusk ; Oystercatcher - 5 ; 319 - 4