Sightings Archive

Blackburn Brook: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Soaring over wood.

Catcliffe Flash: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female briefly landed on ice on lake then back in to cover 11.35

Dronfield: Kingfisher - 1 ; Redwing - 1 - Cliffe Park

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Upper pond

Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1

Green Moor: Blackbird - 13 - All on garden ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Roosting together ; Treecreeper - 1 - Roosting again - same spot

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 4 - 3M,1F in observer's garden ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

Heeley: 319 - 1 - over

Heeley Millenium Park: Redwing - 2

Middleton Moor: 320 - 6 ; Raven - 3 ; Snipe - 2 - over ; Starling - c4000 - hard to estimate numbers, roosted 16:10-16:40 ; Sparrowhawk - 2+ - at least 2 birds, both successfully caught Starlings at dusk ; Peregrine - 1 - high over

Rawmarsh; High Street: Kestrel - 1 - hunting @ 1455hrs

Redmires: 319 - 1 - mobbed by Sparrowhawk ; Sparrowhawk - 1

RVCP: Wigeon - 160

Silverwood: 319 - 3 ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 30 - Behind garage

Smithy Wood: Snipe - 4 - Beside DPD depot.

Spittal Houses: Redwing - 15 ; Fieldfare - 5 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Lapwing - 35 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Thorpe Hesley: Blackbird - 10 - In garden ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - 1f ; Fieldfare - 2

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Lesser Redpoll - 40 - feeding in silver birch ; Great Tit - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Thurcroft: 319 - 2 - circling over the Mineral Line and calling to each other. ; Wren - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Robin - 4 - Moving through the vegetation and also singing

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2 - Fishing together

Woodseats: Raven - 1 - Heading quite low and direct northwards doing some vocals

Abney: 322 - 2 - Reeve's Pheasant: I was surprised (and disappointed) to see this bird (that comes originally from China) in an area of a large common pheasant shoot.

Barlow: Reed Bunting - 1 - rare round here ; Linnet - 50+ - part of a mixed finch flock, also including Chaffinches, Greenfinches and Goldfinches ; 319 - 3 ; Redwing - up to 16 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 6 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4

Bolehill Flash: Pheasant - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Black-headed Gull - 35 ; Shoveler - 6 ; 320 - 43 ; Gadwall - 50 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 3

Chapeltown: Redwing - 5 - On berry shrubs in the car park behind Pizza Hut.

Darnall: Redwing - 12 - Feeding on road side bush's ; Blackbird - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1+ - One bird flying downstream between the two lakes. Probably a second bird perched on branch above upper pond a couple of minutes later.

Forge Dam: Robin - 4 - 1 singing in the wind ; Mallard - 40 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Rook - 20+ - nest-building ; Redwing - 25 - feeding in leaf litter ; Coal Tit - 2

Fulwood: Starling - 30 - several singing on Moorcroft Rd

Green Moor: Treecreeper - 1 - Roosting - thermal image ; Treecreeper - 1 - roosting ; Tawny Owl - 1 - thermal image

Greystones: Blackcap - 4 - 3M1F observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1 - Observer's garden

Handsworth garden: Blackbird - 20+ - seen at dawn ; Blackcap - 1 - Male

Loxley: Red-legged Partridge - 14 - In field off Long Lane, just past LoxleyNursery

Mayfield Valley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - took a Blackbird from hedge ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - second photo ; Blackbird - 1 - taken by Sprawk

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 2 - briefly

Orgreave: 320 - 60+ - On river alongside new house construction site. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1