Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Snipe - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 4 ; Siskin - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 25

Stubley Hollow: 327 - 3 ; 319 - 1 ; Redwing - 6

Tyzack*s Dam: Wood Duck - 1 - Female still present

Upper Padley: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2

Coombs Dale: Kestrel - 1

Crookes: Treecreeper - 1 - With mixed tit party, searching bark of hawthorn. First garden sighting

Fox House: Barn Owl - 1

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 1 - Viewed through Thermal imaging camera

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 2 - Males in observer's garden

Hillsborough Park: Black-headed Gull - 210 ; Canada Goose - 92 - Plus 5 dead birds. ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Goosander - 2 ; Moorhen - 22 ; Coot - 19 ; Mallard - 76 ; Woodpigeon - 25 ; Carrion Crow - 3 - inc one with single pure white wing feather ; Mute Swan - 5

Kimberworth Park: Kestrel - 1 - male,on to lamp post, Roughwood Rd adj Grey Hill

Ladybower Res: Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - ad ; Raven - 1

Morehall Res: Merlin - 1 - Male, hunting the dam wall ; Oystercatcher - 1

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Adult ; Great Black-backed Gull - 73 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 309 ; Common Gull - 1 - Adult ; Black-headed Gull - C1000

R Don, Stevenson Rd : CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter with at least 200 other big gulls.

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 685 - c. roosted on Top Res

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - fem

Coombs Dale: Fieldfare - c23

Firsby Res: Cormorant - 1 - Flew from very full main Res. ; Grey Heron - 2 - in ploughed field ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Through willows at speed. ; Jay - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Over ; Song Thrush - 2 - Feeding in hedge bottom. ; Jackdaw - 2 - in Sheep Paddock. ; Kestrel - 1 - Feeding on top of telegraph pole ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 - Roosting on adjacent field. ; Fieldfare - 12 ; Jackdaw - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - With prey on power line pole ; Siskin - 6+

Frecheville: Goosander - 4 - Frecheville pond.3m 1rh. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Frecheville pond.

Graves Park: Black-headed Gull - 300+

Green Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 30 - c30 flew east at 13:02

Kimberworth Park: Starling - 50+ - across gardens @ Ashworth Drive and Remount Way

Low Hall Wood, High Green: Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 4 ; Mallard - 1 - Dead, presumed roadkill

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 221 ; Common Gull - 202 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; 320 - 52 ; Wigeon - 6 ; Canada Goose - c19

Old Ravenfield: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting at roadside near Ravenfield School. ; Fieldfare - 4 - Over calling. ; Redwing - 2 - With Fieldfares. ; Chaffinch - 4 - With large Flock of Goldfinch on old Colliery Railway Embankment at end of St James view. ; Goldfinch - 40+ - On railway embankment. ; Greenfinch - 2 - with Goldfinch flock.

Ravenfield Park: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - At Hooten Roberts ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 38 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Shoveler - 1 - female ; Gadwall - 30 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Pochard - 14 ; Lapwing - 124 ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Greenfinch - 20 ; Chaffinch - 18