Sightings Archive

Dog Kennel Pond: Coot - 8

Dore Moor: 324 - 1 - 1 Red Deer stag calling from direction of old HSBC sports ground on Cross Lane

Ecclesall: Swallow - 5 - flew south over Ansell Road mid-morning

Middleton Moor: Dunlin - 4 ; Lapwing - 39 ; Stonechat - 2

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 5 - 2 adults, pond behind boathouse, and 3, 2 adults with juv @ Cascades ; Mallard - 30+

Pebley Pond: Pink-footed Goose - 2 - The long staying individual has had a partner for over a week now. ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c120 ; Herring Gull - c6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Canada Goose - c90

R Don, Wardsend: Dipper - 1 - singing upstream of bridge

Ramsley Moor: Greenfinch - 8 ; Redwing - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3

Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on top of Methodist Church spire @ 0835hrs

Redmires conduit: Redwing - 1 - among 20 Mistle Thrushes, several Song Thrushes and Blackbirds feeding on rowan and whitebeam berries

Redmires Res: Mallard - 125 - c. influx ; Pintail - 1 - female on Top Res early evening ; Black-headed Gull - 40 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 - c.

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1+ - calls from within wood,3+? in area between 12:20 - 13:50

Thrybergh CP: Cormorant - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Pochard - 1 ; Lapwing - C100 ; House Sparrow - 10 ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Skylark - 33 - Small numbers moving southward over dam ; Meadow Pipit - 18 ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 5+

Wardsend Cemetery: 319 - 2 - overhead, calling

Aldwarke SF: Red-legged Partridge - 7 - covey ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - S/SW ; Green Sandpiper - 2 - dropped in ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Coot - 7 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Gadwall - 14 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Mallard - 4

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Stock Dove - 10 - 8 on pylons by Thrybergh Bar Mills; 2 NE

Canklow: 319 - 1 - Circling low calling near Energy Alloys 13.03

Endcliffe Park: GANNET - 1 - Juvenile, no obvious white, heading quite low to the south. Reported to Rare Bird Alert. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Single seen several times low over cafe area.

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Moorhen - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - S/SW ; Mallard - 1

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Still present. ; Osprey - 1 - Hovering low in front of dam wall/sluice. for c. 5 mins mobbed by 4 Jackdaws and also Buzzard came in close. Left towards M18. Didn't dive. ; Osprey - 1 - Another photo. ; Osprey - 1 - Another photo. ; Jackdaw - 1 - Mobbing Osprey. ; Jay - 2 - Along path. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling in woodland near road. ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over. ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Males on hedgerow.

Grange Park: Kestrel - 1 - hunting between Watson's Tip and Walkworth Wood

Grange Park, Ockley Bottom: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male, onto trunk of Silver Birch ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1 ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - m - hit bedroom window, taken into care with kitchen roll bedding and warm water tank underneath. Flew off 90 minutes later

Longshaw: Brambling - 8+ - 8 or 9 ; Jay - 2 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pheasant - 6

Moss Valley, lower: 319 - 4 - 3 in air together; 1 calling further over. ; Kestrel - 1

Moss Valley, upper: 319 - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; 321 - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 3

R Don. Effingham St: Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 - one apparently eating guano ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20+

Ravenfield: Skylark - 10+ - Over Arbour Lane.

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling, 0540hrs