Sightings Archive

Underbank Res: Robin - 05-Jun - all singing in different areas ; Great Tit - 03-Apr ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 6+ - in conifers ; Goldcrest - 3 - with coal tits ; Woodpigeon - 9 ; Jackdaw - 15/20 ; Carrion Crow - 3

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Stonechat - 1 ; Skylark - 3

Aldwarke: Canada Goose - 3 - SW ; Mute Swan - 1 - SW @ 0842hrs

Aldwarke SF: Canada Goose - 2 - in from NE ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coot - 4 ; Mallard - 1pr ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m; 1f ; 320 - 2prs ; Gadwall - 4 - 3m; 1f ; Pheasant - 3 - cocks ; Herring Gull - 1 - SW ; Stock Dove - 2 - one in aerial display ; Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 0817hrs ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Magpie - 16+ - together ; Black-headed Gull - 30-40 - on treatment works

Broomhead/Rushy Wood area: Jay - 1 ; Blackbird - 05-Jun ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female on fat block ; Coal Tit - 10-Dec - on all feeders ; Blue Tit - 5 - on peanuts ; Great Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - on fat block ; Pheasant - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Nuthatch - 3

Canklow: Goldfinch - 7 - 7 to garden feeders

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 70+ - flock

Don Canal, Aldwarke Lock: Mallard - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 9 - 5m; 4f ; Gadwall - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Moorhen - 8 ; Goosander - 3 - 2m; 1f

Dronfield: Corvid - 50+ - Mixed flock drifting E towards Frith Wood

Eastwood Trading Estate, Rotherham: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Ecclesall Woods Wood three: 321 - 1 - Back on territory. Perched on nest ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yafflimg ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; Song Thrush - 4 - Singing during 2km circuit.

Foxhall Lane: Corvid - 300 - Large flock roughly 50/50 Jackdaws and Rooks feeding in fields below May House Farm

Fulwood garden: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - at feeders - first of the year ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 1 - male at feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Pheasant - 1 - male under feeders - first for many months

Greystones garden: Woodpigeon - 2 - Gathering nest material in observer's garden

Hutcliffe Wood: Kestrel - 1 - Not often seen in the wood. ; Mandarin - 4 - Two pairs on railway-side flood. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming

Limb Valley: Song Thrush - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Mandarin - 8 ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing

Low Ash Farm: Black Redstart - 1 - still ; Pied Wagtail - 3

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - c50 ; Redwing - c60 ; Greylag Goose - 25+ ; Lapwing - 3 ; Curlew - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Red Grouse - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 8+ ; Robin - 1 ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Jay - 1

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 1 - nocmig: 03:11 single call. Only 2 single Redwing calls in Feb so far, after being recorded regularly up to mid Jan 2020.

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Norfolk Park garden: Blackbird - 1 - Singing, first I've heard this year. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew through. ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Great Tit - 2 - pair ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Starling - 3 - flew over

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 3 - SW ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 - left S ; Herring Gull - 4 - SW ; Black-headed Gull - 14 - SW