Sightings Archive

Renishaw Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 6 - Calling over railway before landing in lineside trees

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+

Roundwood Golf course: Fieldfare - 1 - SW ; Redwing - c10

Shillito Wood: Blackbird - 6 - Despite clear guidance on a notice board about the prevention of the spread of Trichomonosis that feed should be confined to feeders and not spread on the ground, the feeders remain empty (clearly for some time) large amounts of feed have been spread over the usual areas! ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Robin - 4 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Coal Tit - 12 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Starling - 15 ; Jackdaw - 3

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 44 ; Pochard - 10 ; Gadwall - 20 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Water Rail - 1 ; 319 - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 - fem ; Siskin - 2 ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Greenfinch - 4

Wentworth Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - m ; Red-legged Partridge - 17 ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m + 1f ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - 2m + 1f

Wortley Park: Linnet - 13 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Red-legged Partridge - 21 ; Redwing - 5 ; 319 - 1 ; Mallard - 268 - On small flash near Bromley

Barlow Brook: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1

Barlow Common: Nuthatch - 1

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 1 - In roadside fields

Burngreave: Starling - 300+ - in 40 min period coming to roost in 12 large conifers, Sorby St. First group of 22 arrived at c15:20.

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 - fishing at E end ; 319 - 1 - hunting? Low over W end of lake ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ ; Blackbird - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - female on lower pond

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Loud calling pre dawn. ; 319 - 1 - mobbed by Blackbirds. ; Pheasant - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 10+ - Emerging from roost in Hawthorn. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - Calling ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Calling ; Bullfinch - 2+ ; Lapwing - 1 - Flew from farmland pre Dawn. ; Skylark - 1 - Over early morning.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - male around feeders ; Pheasant - 1 - Male perched and clambering about c.20m up in oak tree for a while ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldfinch - 18

Green Moor: Cormorant - 2 - Two S over at 10.15 ; Tree Sparrow - 10+ - To feeders daily, recent maximum ; Fieldfare - 3

Holbrook Marsh: Snipe - 1

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1

Markham Vale: Raven - 2 - a pair flew North ; Snipe - 16 ; Jack Snipe - 6 ; Woodcock - 1

Morley Pond: Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair ; Mallard - 150+ - including 100+ between Cascades and Morley Pond ; Red-legged Partridge - 4+ ; Pheasant - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jackdaw - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 80+ - Seen most mornings this week coming out of roost from hospital grounds at junction of Herries Rd and Barnsley Rd, today seeing biggest count and very noisy

Redmires Middle Res: Peregrine - 1 - Perched on rocks near water ; 320 - 11

Salmon Pastures: 320 - 1

Scholes Ground: Woodpigeon - c200 - feeding in autumn sown oil seed rape

Stubley Hollow: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - only record this year

Wadsley Common garden: Raven - 1 - One over heading west-our first record from the garden.

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 3 - male and two redheads