Sightings Archive

RVCP: Raven - 1 - Flew west

Strines Res: Whooper Swan - 14

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Shoveler - 4 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Fieldfare - 18 ; Redwing - 8 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Ughill: Snipe - 1

Wadsley: Whooper Swan - 1+ - Calling. Heading N or possibly NW at 20:49.

Whiston Meadows: Rook - 10 - Nest renovation on pylon beside M1. ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 3

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Stock Dove - 4 - inc 1 singing & 2 in aerial display, from pylons ; Peregrine - 01-Feb - 1 on chimney (SK449948) briefly around 0840hrs; adult on lime tower (SK452950) later

Barnside Moor/Midhope Moor: Skylark - 1+ - displaying ; Kestrel - 1 - hover hunting ; Red Grouse - 6+ - displaying

Beauchief Pond: Mandarin - 12

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 22 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; 319 - 1

Dalton: Song Thrush - 2 - on old sewage works site ; Magpie - 6 - in aerial chases

Ecclesall: Raven - 2 - flew low to the NW over Ansell Road calling at 08:05 hrs

Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Calling from obs.garden 09:45

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Linnet - 6 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Chaffinch - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Goldcrest - 3 - inc 2 together ; Mallard - 1pr - on outflow stream ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Common Buzzard - 1 - in trees on edge of adjacent field

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; 320 - 1 - Calling from Reed bed ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; 319 - 1 - Soaring over site calling. ; Bullfinch - 1+ - Cottage hedge calling. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Alarm calling ; Goldcrest - 1 - In woodland near road. ; Skylark - 1 - Singing

Graves Park: Treecreeper - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead on boating lake

High Bradfield: Stonechat - 2 - on dry stone wall near Nether House Farm.

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling(display)? between Shepherd's Plantation and Roughwood School. ; Goose sp - 30+ - NW over Rockingham, 10:05

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Skylark - 1+ - displaying ; Linnet - 1 - singing from tree ; Red-legged Partridge - 2+ ; Pheasant - 2 - males ; 319 - 2 - 1 hunting from post perch, the other flying overhead ; Dunnock - 2+ - singing males ; Blackbird - 2 ; Curlew - 1 - preening in field ; Lapwing - 4+ - in field ; Greylag Goose - 1 - in field ; House Sparrow - 3+ - in hedge ; Red Grouse - 1 - in field ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - feeding on ground ; Song Thrush - 3 - feeding near Mistle Thrushes ; Goldfinch - 10+ - singing from tree tops and flying about in flock with Chaffinch and tits ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Chaffinch - 2+ ; Robin - 2 - 1 singing male

Mickleden Beck: Raven - 2 - flying over together ; Kestrel - 2 - interacting in flight ; Red Grouse - 7+

Old Ravenfield: Yellowhammer - 1 - Over Pingle Lane calling. ; Greenfinch - 8 - In garden tree. ; Linnet - 30+ - Flock over farmland between St James church and Arbour Lane. ; Skylark - 3 - Singing.

Parkgate; Barber*s Avenue: Black-headed Gull - c60 - feeding on playing field @ 0655hrs

Pike Lowe, Midhope: 319 - 5 - soaring together over the pike

R Don, Aldwarke: Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Mallard - 3prs ; Moorhen - 3 ; Redwing - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; 320 - 10 - 4m; 6f ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb - male, left downriver; same or different bird near nest site ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Cormorant - 1 - NE ; Greylag Goose - 1 - NE, returning SW then off NE ; Stock Dove - 4 - under Thrybergh bar mill road bridge, inc male singing, using bridge as 'resonator' ; Mute Swan - 1pr

R Don, Thrybergh tip: Canada Goose - 3 - left E