Sightings Archive

Porter Valley: Carrion Crow - 1 ; Magpie - 3 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On Porter Brook. ; Mallard - 21 - On Forge Dam pond. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - On Porter Brook. ; 320 - 1 - Male on Forge Dam pond with Mallards.

R Don, Aldwarke: Mallard - 2prs ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - over ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, Aldwarke Island

R Don, Eastwood: 320 - 1pr ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Mallard - 10

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Sparrowhawk - 1 - low over playing field heading N

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Greenfinch - 1 - in aerial display ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Ringinglow: Corvid - 110 - Mixed flock includes 37 Rook ; Stock Dove - 11 - feeding in fields

Roundwood Golf course: Lesser Redpoll - 3

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair back this morning after being absent for all but one day of past 5 weeks

Summerley: Bullfinch - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Thorpe Hesley: Red-legged Partridge - 20 ; Lapwing - 100 - In fields

Tyzack*s Dam: Mallard - 8 - Very low number. ; Mandarin - 1 - First since November. ; Goosander - 2 - First since December.

Unstone: Jay - 1 - Near Ramsley Lodge

Wadsley Common garden: House Sparrow - 12 ; Common Gull - 3 - Low over garden NW.

Westwood Dam: Mallard - 72

Bowden Housteads Wood: 319 - 2 - 1 pair displaying.

Ewden Valley: Red Kite - 1 - Heading SE ; Peregrine - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 - 1 on each Res. ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 8 ; 320 - 1 - Injured Female still surviving can now fly but seemed to struggle to gain any height ; Grey Heron - 3 - Together in cow field. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Dead Male near houses. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting at dusk. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Kimberworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing from tree top behind Remount Road.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: 319 - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 20+

Loxley Valley: Red Kite - 1 - Over Myers Lane ; Jackdaw - 70+ - Fields near Rowell Lane

Malin Bridge: Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig: calling 20:56

Millhouses: 319 - 3 - Circling and calling over Stowe Avenue ; Blackcap - 1 - Male still ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Blackbird - 11

Nether Edge: 319 - 2 - 2 flew west together late morning

Norfolk Park garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Flew overhead.

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c400 - Several approaching breeding plumage ; Skylark - c12 ; Lapwing - 7 ; Stock Dove - 3

Redmires: Canada Goose - 25 ; Greylag Goose - 40 ; Lapwing - 90 ; Treecreeper - 1

Sharrow Vale: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - c30

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 2 - 'trilling' ; Cormorant - 1 - east ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Siskin - 5 - in alders below SW corner of lagoon ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 - One bird came to food first time seen in over two weeks ; Mute Swan - 81 ; Tufted Duck - 55 ; Pochard - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Goldfinch - C20 ; Blackbird - 14 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3

Thrybergh Tip: Tufted Duck - 32 - On lagoon.