Sightings Archive

Woolley Wood: Wren - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 4 - 2 pairs inc courtship flight ; Magpie - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 3

Worrall garden: Siskin - 2 - Pair on sunflower seed feeder

Agden Res: Oystercatcher - 2

Blue Man*s Bower: Shoveler - 1 - Male ; Mallard - 2 - Pair ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Bolehill Flash: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; 319 - 1 - Over ; Wigeon - 33 - Grazing on field between Bolehill Flash & Parkway ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair on river ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 2m, 1f

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - Roding this evening at bottom end of Canklow Woods (SK4290 9056)

Gleadless Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard briefly yaffling from trees in Lees Hall Golf Club

Handsworth garden: Siskin - 2 - under feeders. ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair. ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Blackbird - 2 ; House Sparrow - 7 ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 2

Hazelbarrow Farm: Redwing - 1 ; Robin - 6 ; Jay - 1 - Flew across fields ; Wren - 1 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Collared Dove - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Carrion Crow - 1 - Feeding in field ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Magpie - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; House Sparrow - c10 ; Skylark - 3 - singing/displaying males ; Lapwing - 6 - territorial display and alarming at us as we walked along public footpath

Hillsborough: Sparrowhawk - 1

Longshaw: Jay - 5

Mayfield Valley: LONG-TAILED SKUA - 1 - still present this morning,feeding in fields at top of Clough Lane. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flew up field at top of Clough Lane mid-afternoon before dropping into woodland ; Raven - 1 - Low N ; Fieldfare - 40 - Low N ; Pheasant - 1 - Male ; LONG-TAILED SKUA - 1 - present to dusk ; LONG-TAILED SKUA - 1 - in favoured fields late afternoon with city in background

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Millhouses garden: Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - 1m 1f ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Blackcap - 1 - male ; Robin - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 - female ; Chaffinch - 1 - male ; Jay - 1

Moss Valley: 319 - 3 - soaring overhead ; Robin - 30+ ; Blue Tit - 17+ ; Great Tit - 12+ ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 8+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Coal Tit - 5+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Magpie - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Wren - 2

Netherthorpe: 319 - 1

Norton Lees garden: Goldfinch - 2 ; Robin - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing birds, one between the bridges, other by the Rother. ; Wigeon - 7

Peat Pits: Grey Plover - 1 - Present still/ again with Golden Plover flock ; Golden Plover - 300+ ; Lapwing - 20+ - Including territorial/ display flights ; Curlew - 2 ; Stock Dove - 6 - Feeding in fields

Pit-house West: Water Rail - 4+ - Several birds calling