Sightings Archive

Wadsley Common garden: Redwing - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female passed feeders without success

Wharncliffe Side: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - In observers garden feeding on sunflower hearts ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1

Worrall: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - In Worrall park. ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Goldfinch - 20

Agden Res: Siskin - 20 - On Smallfield Lane ; Goldcrest - 5 - With tit flock by Agden Bog ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Flew from trees above main path ; Kestrel - 1 - From footpath above reservoir

Aldwarke: Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair showing courtship display, copulation ; Goldfinch - 08-Sep - On feeder throughout day ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over site. 13.15 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - W/NW @ 1255hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Peregrine - 1 - female over briefly @ 1255hrs; adult (same bird?) headed off strongly to W/NW @ 1312hrs

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1

Blacka Moor: Pink-footed Goose - c70 - flew west about 13:15 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jackdaw - 10

Chatsworth Park: 319 - 1 ; Coot - 17 ; Redwing - 40+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Pair ; Goosander - 5 - 3 drakes, 1 imm drake and one female

Crimicar Drive Garden: Sparrowhawk - 1

Dore: 319 - 1 - mobbed by 2 Crows - Whitelow Rd

Dore garden: Pink-footed Goose - c180 - Heading west at 08:40

Firsby Res: Siskin - 30+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 28 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1f ; Stock Dove - 3

Gleadless Common: Stonechat - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 5

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Stock Dove - 8 ; Tree Sparrow - 7

Hagg Lane Allotments: Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Dunnock - 5 ; Magpie - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Robin - 3 ; Blackbird - 4 ; House Sparrow - 6 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming on tree below plot 167

Hathersage garden: Brambling - 2 - 1-2 at a time each day in the past week

Kimberworth Park: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from garden on Rhodes Avenue.

Millhouses: Chaffinch - 2 - Two males in the garden. One more brightly coloured constantly harassed by the resident Robin which totally ignored the duller individual. ; Blackcap - 1 - Male again I. Stowe Avenue garden ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 2 ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Starling - 12 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Magpie - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 3

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c95 - over west about 09:40

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Lesser Redpoll - 3 - inc 1 NW ; Siskin - 01-Feb - over ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 2 - pair

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chaffinch - c10 - feeding in field-edge ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - female, over

Silver Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2

Thrybergh CP: Pink-footed Goose - 80 - flew west at 08:40 ; Mute Swan - 71 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 57 ; Pochard - 4 ; 320 - 3 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8