Sightings Archive

Shillito Wood: Chaffinch - 12 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Starling - 15 ; Jackdaw - 3

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 44 ; Pochard - 10 ; Gadwall - 20 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Water Rail - 1 ; 319 - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 - fem ; Siskin - 2 ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Greenfinch - 4

Wentworth Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - m ; Red-legged Partridge - 17 ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m + 1f ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - 2m + 1f

Wortley Park: Linnet - 13 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Red-legged Partridge - 21 ; Redwing - 5 ; 319 - 1 ; Mallard - 268 - On small flash near Bromley

Barlow Brook: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1

Barlow Common: Nuthatch - 1

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 1 - In roadside fields

Burngreave: Starling - 300+ - in 40 min period coming to roost in 12 large conifers, Sorby St. First group of 22 arrived at c15:20.

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 - fishing at E end ; 319 - 1 - hunting? Low over W end of lake ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ ; Blackbird - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - female on lower pond

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Loud calling pre dawn. ; 319 - 1 - mobbed by Blackbirds. ; Pheasant - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 10+ - Emerging from roost in Hawthorn. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - Calling ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Calling ; Bullfinch - 2+ ; Lapwing - 1 - Flew from farmland pre Dawn. ; Skylark - 1 - Over early morning.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - male around feeders ; Pheasant - 1 - Male perched and clambering about c.20m up in oak tree for a while ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldfinch - 18

Green Moor: Cormorant - 2 - Two S over at 10.15 ; Tree Sparrow - 10+ - To feeders daily, recent maximum ; Fieldfare - 3

Holbrook Marsh: Snipe - 1

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1

Markham Vale: Raven - 2 - a pair flew North ; Snipe - 16 ; Jack Snipe - 6 ; Woodcock - 1

Morley Pond: Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair ; Mallard - 150+ - including 100+ between Cascades and Morley Pond ; Red-legged Partridge - 4+ ; Pheasant - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jackdaw - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 80+ - Seen most mornings this week coming out of roost from hospital grounds at junction of Herries Rd and Barnsley Rd, today seeing biggest count and very noisy

Redmires Middle Res: Peregrine - 1 - Perched on rocks near water ; 320 - 11

Salmon Pastures: 320 - 1

Scholes Ground: Woodpigeon - c200 - feeding in autumn sown oil seed rape

Stubley Hollow: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - only record this year

Wadsley Common garden: Raven - 1 - One over heading west-our first record from the garden.

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 3 - male and two redheads ; Mandarin - 18 ; Grey Heron - 1

Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 9 - on Grey Hill

Pebley Pond: Goosander - 8 - 3 M +5 F, been around for a few days ; Gadwall - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Mallard - c22 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c35 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 40+

Gillfield Wood: Kingfisher - 1

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Female