Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Golden Plover - 230 - c. 230 left to the SW at dusk ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 950 - c. roosted on No. 4 lagoon ; Herring Gull - 10 - c. roosted amongst LBBs ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ads roosted with LBBS ; Black-headed Gull - 10 - c. ; Starling - 30000 - c. flew into roost from the south and west during the hour before dusk - no doubt an under-estimate ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling ; Snipe - 5 - c.

Millhouses Park: Grey Heron - 1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - flock ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - female over + 2 soaring, visible simultaneously ; Herring Gull - 9 - S/SW ; Black-headed Gull - c25 - flock, S/SW ; Rook - c10 - over with JDs ; Jackdaw - c15 - over, harassing BZ ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over then W, harassed by JDs ; Jay - 2

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Sparrowhawk - 1 - adult male ; Yellowhammer - c35 - flock, in set-aside ; Skylark - c70 - flock, in set-aside ; Reed Bunting - 2+ - with Yellowhammers ; Herring Gull - 4 - SW ; Red-legged Partridge - 7 - in set-aside ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Magpie - 8 - in set-aside ; Pheasant - 6 - in set-aside

Parkgate; fields to W: Red-legged Partridge - 10 - covey ; Common Buzzard - 1

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring together @ 1445hrs; drifted away SW

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Long-tailed Tit - Oct-15 - mobile flock ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 - in full song ; Treecreeper - 1

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Redwing - 5 - feeding in Hawthorns ; Blackbird - 12 - loose flock, in Hawthorns ; Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 2 - feeding on fruit in apple tree

Redmires conduit: Goldcrest - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 - including one ringed (not the photo) ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 7 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Wren - 2 ; Robin - 3 - one singing ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

RVCP, Main Lake: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1

Thornseat Delf: Stonechat - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Merlin - 1 - female

Thorpe Hesley: Little Owl - 1 - Sat on rooftop ariel on house opposite,calling at 16.30. First sighting here

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 15 - Including 9 males. 15, highest count here in recent years.

Baslow: Peregrine - 1 - South over observers house

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 170 - In 3 different fields

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 20

High Storrs: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - In garden feeding on fat cakes/blocks

Low Common: Fieldfare - 5+ - from defunct hedge and ditch

Millhouses: Redwing - 55 - Total in three small parties South 0810 to 0840.

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1 pair displaying ; Mute Swan - 2 - Adult pair ( 035 and 316) ; Mallard - 1+ ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+

Onesmoor: Skylark - c30 - Feeding in crop (turnip?) field.

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 3 - 1 male ; Mallard - 66 ; Canada Goose - 6

Rawmarsh: Fieldfare - 33 - flock, E @ 1300hrs

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 60 - c. in fields ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - in fields with Greylags ; Canada Goose - 44 - in fields ; 320 - 12 - on Top Res ; Mallard - 30 - c. ; Lapwing - 50 - c. on Middle Res ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Redwing - 18 - flew SW

Redmires Top Res: Kestrel - 1 - hunting roadside verges

Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - male on tel. pole,between Scholes Coppce and Wood @ Scholes Paddock

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - among Greylags ; Greylag Goose - 176 ; Canada Goose - 43 ; Starling - 140

Barlow Common: Redwing - 11 - max ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Rook - 12+

Crookes Valley Park: Goosander - 1 - "the first time I have seen one in the park"

Fairholmes: Brambling - 3 - with Chaffinches under beeches ; Chaffinch - 80 - feeding under beeches

Kimberworth Park: Pied Wagtail - 2 - outside Oaks Lane shops

Ladybower Res, North arm: Goosander - 2 - pair

Lodge Moor: Redwing - 1 - feeding in observers garden (record shot)

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - W @ 1145hrs

Redmires Top Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 240 - late afternoon