Sightings Archive

Norfolk Heritage Park: Mistle Thrush - 2 - At least 1 singing. ; Redwing - 2 - Making 'zeet' call from tree canopy. ; 319 - 1 - Flying back and forth over a quieter part of the football field. ; Carrion Crow - 1

Onesmoor: Barn Owl - 1 - particularly dark bird hunting at dusk - not guttata though

Owlthorpe: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - seen and heard near orchard ; Woodcock - 2 - flew from long grass ; Bullfinch - 10+ - Heard calling over during walk. ; Greenfinch - 5+` - calling. ; Jay - 2 - `during walk on Owlthorpe Fields.

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 1,210 - Approx roosted ; Common Gull - 1 - Adult roosted with BHGs

RVCP: Little Egret - 9

Thornseat Delf: Goldcrest - 5 - c.

Whiston Meadows Flash: Siskin - 10 - Feeding alongside a flock of Goldfinches.

Wire Mill Dam: Redwing - 7

Wortley: Song Thrush - 1 - Brief song ; 319 - 3

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w on roof Warren St ; Dipper - 1 - metal ringed bird just below Norfolk bridge. ; Peregrine - 1 - Bernard Road incinerator building, first I've seen here since last spring. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 15

Bradfield Dale: Dipper - 1 - singing on Dale Dike

Breck Farm: Fieldfare - 25 ; 321 - 1 - On flood waters. ; Redwing - 12

Crookes Valley Park: Goosander - 2 - male & female

Crosspool: Waxwing - 1 - Outside 600 Manchester Rd at 08:20 ; Waxwing - 1 - showing very well in the trees by the houses 602 - 616 Manchester Rd, 12.30-12.45 ; Redwing - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Waxwing - 1 ; Waxwing - 1 ; Waxwing - 1 ; Waxwing - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Cormorant - 3 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Coot - 6+ ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Ecclesfield: Lesser Redpoll - 5 - Feeding in Silver Birch in garden, Cross Hill, Including"white faced"individual at 14:25

Hangingwater garden: Reed Bunting - 1 - record shot through car windscreen

Hathersage: Tawny Owl - 1

Heeley: Chiffchaff - 1 - One in trees beside the Sheaf at Broadfield Way.

Holmesfield: Pink-footed Goose - 40 - A distant skein of 40 heading West, viewed from Graves Park

Killamarsh Meadows: Little Egret - 5 ; Wigeon - 74 - Good number,,prob some birds from RVCP>

Longstone Edge: Brambling - 3+ - At least 3 in flock with chaffinches feeding on beech mast

Low Bradfield: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing near Lamb Hill

Loxley Valley: Goosander - 2 - M & F at Mill Dam near nursing home

Middle Common: Skylark - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 182 ; Common Gull - 278 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 3 ; 320 - 4 ; Merlin - 1 - Female flushed lapwings before leaving to north

Morley Pond: Cormorant - 2 ; Mallard - 20+

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - first-winter in pre-roost ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - first-winter in pre-roost ; Goosander - 4 - 3m, 1 redhead ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 15 - pre-roost ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - pre-roost ; Herring Gull - 200 - pre-roost ; Black-headed Gull - 300 - pre-roost ; Bullfinch - 3 - between bridges

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Kestrel - 1

R Derwent near Shatton: Kestrel - 1

R Derwent, Leadmill Bridge - Shatton: Mandarin - 35 ; Canada Goose - 32 - in field by river

R Don, Grafton Bridge: Goosander - 1 - drake, flew over road heading upriver @ 1005hrs

R Don, Salmon Pastures: Lesser Redpoll - 5 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Redwing - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - calling ; Herring Gull - c40 - inc yellow York ringed bird ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling around 1700hrs

Rawmarsh; High Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over, then E @ 1100hrs

RVCP: Little Egret - 10 ; Goosander - 25 - feeding flock ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - 1

Silver Wood: Mistle Thrush - 2 - on wires behind Silverwood Test Centre ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3+ - very vocal ; Jay - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Woodcock - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 3