Sightings Archive

Old Ravenfield: Skylark - 4 - Small flock over farmland between St James Church and Arbour Lane. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - Down on farmland. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On St James Church spire. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Female near church gate.

Scholes Coppice: Robin - 4+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 1+ - calls ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Jay - 1 - calls

Shepherd*s Plantation: Chiffchaff - 1+ - song and calls

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - NW, same bird later at Middle Common, on telegraph pole? ; Skylark - 2+ - at least 2 singing ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ - calls heard from stubble and cover crop ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - from Rowan tree ; Linnet - 50+ - small roving flocks moving back n forth over Middle and Upper Commons

Whinfell Quarry Garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 - having a noisy argument with a pair of Magpies

Wortley: Pink-footed Goose - c150 - NW 10:00 ; Skylark - 5 - SE ; Crossbill - 2 - SE ; Meadow Pipit - c600 - SE ; Swallow - 7 - SE ; House Martin - c30 - SE ; Lapwing - 18

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 3 - on pylon

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Raven - 1 - on rooftop safety rail briefly ; Peregrine - 1 - male on roof briefly ; Kestrel - 2 - together

Brincliffe Edge: Sparrowhawk - 1

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - south at 15:00 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - in the air together at 15:00

Derwent Res: 319 - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Siskin - 60+ - Difficult to count - could have been considerably more

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Observer's garden

Ladybower Res, North arm: Cormorant - 2 ; 321 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Canada Goose - 25 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Mandarin - 8

Listerdale Wood: Common Buzzard - 4 - over Black Carr @ 0950hrs

Loxley Valley: Raven - 1 - flying over Wisewood area calling repeatedly.

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 4+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, displaying overhead ; Siskin - 11 - 9 S; 2 W ; Swallow - 7 - all S ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - all S ; Meadow Pipit - 17+ - all S ; House Martin - 3 - over ; Hobby - 1 - juv, dropped into trees from N @ 0755hrs where it sat preening in sunshine to 0905hrs; left E, climbing high over Liberty Steels hunting insects and drifting S/SE

Ramsley Moor: Mistle Thrush - 10 ; Stonechat - 2 ; 324 - 21 - 21 Red Admirals together under a single rowan. ; Greenfinch - 3

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Goldcrest - 1 - in conifers

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling from a garden ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - heard over

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1 - Male

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c40 - east at 09:15 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing in NW corner ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c20 - in one mobile flock ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 4

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 23 ; Canada Goose - 300+ ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; 320 - 1 ; Lapwing - 55 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - Regular bird with coloured leg ring from last year present ; Cormorant - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 60+ - South ; Skylark - 24 - Most south over dam ; Goldfinch - 40+ ; Linnet - 20+ ; Siskin - 1 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; 319 - 4 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6+