Sightings Archive

R Don, Thrybergh tip: Coot - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 10 - 7m; 3f ; Gadwall - 7 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Mallard - 1pr ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 320 - 1pr

Ravenfield Park: Canada Goose - 4 ; Mallard - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Male. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling over woodland. ; Song Thrush - 1

Silver Wood: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - heard, west at 10.55

Silverwood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting high. Pair observed previous day in same area. ; 319 - 1 - In centre of the wood. ; Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming. ; Coal Tit - 5+ - Lots of calling all through wood. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Near old NCB houses.

Stanage Edge, below: Woodcock - 1 - roding over several times late dusk ; Snipe - 1 - chipping at dusk.

Thrybergh: House Sparrow - 16

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 50 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Shoveler - 2 - pair ; Water Rail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - pair ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 3

Thrybergh Tip: Song Thrush - 5 - 3 (SK4695); 2 (SK4696), all singing ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 - 2 (SK4695); 1 (SK4696), all singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 2 - SW @ 0724hrs ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing, SE corner ; Pheasant - c6 - party flushed from cover ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr ; Shoveler - 43 - 30m; 13f; largest count here for some time ; Coot - 20 ; Greylag Goose - 6 - 2 left W/SW ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 5m; 3f ; Pochard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Gadwall - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - in from E ; Long-tailed Tit - 3

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Agden: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 ; Siskin - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 50+ - Again this morning in tree opposite Royal Mail sorting office. Very vocal - record shot on mobile phone.

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 6

Cinder Bridge Road: Kestrel - 1 - in tree over road

Greasbrough; The Whins: Common Buzzard - 1 - low over road into Cinderbridge Plantation

Heeley City Farm: Redwing - c5

Heeley Millenium Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Hoober Lane: Kestrel - 1 - in roadside tree @ 1130hrs

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male on rooftop on Shearman Avenue ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - active along pavement, near Oaks Lane shops

Ladybower Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - 2 birds feeding in pasture beside reservoir with sheep and Canada Geese ; Greylag Goose - 12 - Group took off flying north up North arm Ladybower

Loxley Valley: Stonechat - 1

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 41 ; Lapwing - 270 ; Siskin - 25 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Stonechat - 1

Redmires: Oystercatcher - 6 - Flying from bottom res. ; Nuthatch - 2 - Top res. ; Coal Tit - 2 - Top res.

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 25 - c. ; Canada Goose - 120 - c. ; Greylag Goose - 12 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - usual tame bird ; Cormorant - 24 ; Grey Heron - 10 - including at least four ads sat on nests ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Coot - 56 ; Moorhen - 12 ; 320 - 40 - c. ; Wigeon - 90 - c. ; Gadwall - 8 ; Pochard - 24 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Goldeneye - 13 - (5 ad male + 1 imm male + 7 redheads)