Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Crossbill - 2 - flew W ; Snipe - 3 - flew SW

Rockingham: Common Buzzard - 2 - Soaring low over obs house

Rother Valley CP: Redwing - 3610 - all S/SW ; Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Fieldfare - 35 ; Pink-footed Goose - 80+ - 2 skeins,both W, 1 c35,1 c45 ; Wigeon - 35 - small parties arriving

RVCP: Wigeon - 31 ; Redwing - 0 - please delete record from 08/10/

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 6+ - 6 over wood at 12:05 with 1 at usual perch on telegraph pole at Middle Common at same time

Sothall: Redwing - 56+

Stannington: Redwing - 200 - Flocks of thrushes heading south at 08:00 ; Fieldfare - 200 - Multiple small flocks of thrushes ; Meadow Pipit - 40 - flock heading south

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 27 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 ; Skylark - 10 ; Redwing - 25

Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 7 - 5 juv ; Pochard - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Shoveler - 8 ; 320 - 4 ; Gadwall - 24 ; Mallard - 20 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 ; Jay - 8 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Siskin - 8+ ; Redwing - 120 total ; 319 - 3

Tyzack*s Dam: Canada Goose - 9 - apart from one Moorhen, the only water birds present on Tyzack's puddle.

Wentworth Park: Redwing - 2 - NW at deer park

Whiston Meadows: Redwing - 20+

White Edge: Brambling - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 30+

Woodseats: Redwing - 90 - Heading SW ; Skylark - 9 - south at 10:45 ; Pink-footed Goose - c50 - SW at 10:05

Bolsterstone: Little Owl - 2 - Perched on wall near Walders Low ; Skylark - 2 - Singing ; Raven - 1 - Cronking

Canklow Woods: Skylark - 11 - flock south at 10:00 ; Fieldfare - 13 - flock of 13 south at 1200

Dore: Pink-footed Goose - c120 - single skein heading SE at 11.45

Ecclesall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - flying over Button Hill ; Redwing - 40 - c. flew S over Ansell Road ; Mistle Thrush - 6 - paused briefly in Ansell Road garden - flew off SW ; Fieldfare - 1 - paused with Mistle Thrushes in Ansell Road garden - flew off W ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flew SW at dusk

Eckington: Cormorant - 1 - over ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over

Firsby Res: Skylark - 10+ ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Singing intermittently in reeds next to overflow channel. ; 319 - c10 - inc 4 together calling. ; Redwing - c600 - 2 large flocks over going NW. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 - squealing at each end of small res reedbeds one seen bathing. ; Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident. ; Jackdaw - c10 ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Starling - 13 ; Siskin - c20 - Flock over SE

Foxhill: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from housing estate

Graves Park: Cormorant - 1 - Twenty minutes plus of close-up observation and photos

Intake: Redwing - 1 - Calling overhead at 21;36

Malin Bridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling in garden ; Goldcrest - 1 - calling ; Coal Tit - 1

Nether Haugh: Grey Wagtail - 1 - E, then NE ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2

Nether Haugh; Clay Hill: Red-legged Partridge - 16+ - recently released ; Yellowhammer - 1 - male ; Goldfinch - c20 - flock ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Skylark - 6 - E ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Stock Dove - 04-May - feeding in field

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Goldcrest - 6 - 2 (SK4396); 4 (SK4296) ; Robin - numerous - most abundant species by far with many singing birds ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - disturbed from woodland with prey ; Chaffinch - 8 - inc 7 E ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - S ; Song Thrush - 2 - SW together, calling; probably migrants