Sightings Archive

Barker*s Park: Long-tailed Tit - 2+ - 2 in hawthorn hedge, 1+ in shrubs ; Woodpigeon - 4 - feeding on seed at park entrance

Birley Edge: Blackcap - 1 - female on garden feeders

Bray Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - calls ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Magpie - 1+

Catcliffe River Rother: Goosander - 7

Ecclesfield: Jay - 1 - Flew west, Cross Hill ; 319 - 1 - Calling and soaring over Hartley Brook

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - On upper pond

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 1 - Hunting - seen on Thermal IC

Linacre Res: Goosander - 5 - 3 m, 2 f ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Mandarin - 2+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 - heard

Morehall Res: Raven - 3 ; Mandarin - 11 - 7 male, 4 female, observers highest count for the site

Orgreave Lakes: Skylark - 9 ; 320 - 30+ ; Wigeon - 50+ ; Stonechat - 2

Redscope Plantation: Woodpigeon - 10+ - feeding beneath trees ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Redwing - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Redwing - 1 - at least 1 calling ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+

Walkley Bank: 319 - 2 - low overhead, calling and interacting

Birley Edge: Woodpigeon - 180+ - Wilson Spring Wood adjoining fields ; Jay - 1

Bolehill Flash: Snipe - 1

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 4 - 2 male and 2 redheads ; Siskin - 50 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2

Dale Dike Res: Pink-footed Goose - 55+ - Flying west at 12.15

Dukes Road: Red Grouse - 12 ; Raven - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Ecclesfield Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2

Edge Mount/Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 30+ - 30-40 overflew area for 10 minutes or so then left towards Langsett ; Black-headed Gull - 24 - feeding in field near crossroads ; Fieldfare - 140+ - flew from beech trees in plantation ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Rook - 10+ ; Raven - 2 - flew from Wharncliffe Crags towards Rocher constantly calling

Elsecar: Song Thrush - 2 ; Nuthatch - 4 - 2,1,1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 - 1f ; Wren - 2 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - vocal pair

Elsecar Res: Mallard - 220+ ; Black-headed Gull - c200 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Water Rail - 2 - calling close by in reeds

Endcliffe Park: Redwing - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 - behind the cafe ; Mandarin - 5 ; Kingfisher - 1 - M at upper pond

Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - some song in river below the cafe

Greystones garden: Magpie - 2 - In observer's garden, renovating last year's nest

Handsworth: Redwing - c20 - Feeding on the Asda roundabout.

Hudson*s Rough: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - feeding ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Redwing - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Magpie - 1+

Hunter*s Bar: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Chasing a Blackbird at head height down pavement on Hunter Hill Road

Kilnhurst Ings: 320 - 7 ; Goosander - 2