Sightings Archive

Manor Fields Park: Redwing - 4 - singing subsong from copse with Alder trees ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Robin - 4 ; Chaffinch - 1

Middlewood: Yellowhammer - 1 - on path down from Worrall Rd. No further sightings in several visits

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 1 - a male feeding with the Goldfinches on the sunflower hearts

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 38 ; Mallard - c25 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 - all 2cy

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Siskin - 1 - over ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 28 ; Greylag Goose - 15 ; Mallard - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair on Top Res ; Curlew - 9 - in fields ; Lapwing - 42 - on Middle Res ; Ringed Plover - 1 - ad on Middle Res - first February record as far as I know ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Skylark - 4 - flew SW ; Siskin - 2 - flew SW ; Crossbill - 4 - flew W

Rivelin Valley: Curlew - 2 - In field west of Rails Road

Roundwood Golf course: Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Treeton Dyke: Greylag Goose - 4 ; Goosander - 1 - Male ; Tufted Duck - 30+ ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Gadwall - 1 - Male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male ; Redwing - 1

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Song Thrush - 1 singing ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling from Black Plantation. ; Mistle Thrush - 3 singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - 1 singing ; Fieldfare - c10 ; Redwing - c40 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Sub-adults SW ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Skylark - c15 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Stock Dove - Pair ; Starling - c10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

Whiteley Woods House: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling in bushes. ; 319 - 6 - Soaring and calling.

Woodall: Little Owl - 1 - calling

Arbourthorne Pond: Mallard - 10 - 6 male 4 fem. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Starling - c30 - In trees by pond ; Black-headed Gull - c8 - over pond and adj fields

Beeley Wood: Nuthatch - 6 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard only ; Nuthatch - 15 - Heard at most locations, max count 4. ; Treecreeper - 9 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2

Bradfield school: Stonechat - 2 - pair on playing fields.

Bray Plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Burncross, Chapeltown: Greenfinch - 3 - Together chasing/calling

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1015 ; Lesser Redpoll - c50

Ecclesall: Common Buzzard - 2 - circling overhead

Fulwood Head: Golden Plover - 45 - Flock flew low SW

Gardom*s Edge: Raven - up to 3 - two together, then another shortly after.

Holdworth: Little Owl - 1 - sunbathing on stone wall. ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing from small copse.

Hutcliffe Wood: Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 - male hunting ; Goldfinch - 5+

Kimberworth Park: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from garden adj to allotment @ Barkers Park.

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Raven - 2 - low W together ; Crossbill - 4

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - c2900 ; Common Gull - c70 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Canada Goose - c50

Langsett Wood: Song Thrush - 6 - 5 singing on walk from Low Moor to Langsett Res around 5pm

Low Ash Farm.: Black Redstart - 1 - feeding on flies around horse manure @ 16.15.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - c25 ; Curlew - 1+