Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - flock ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 - 'sharming' from opposite sites of flash ; Canada Goose - 22 - SW from direction of Thrybergh CP ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Siskin - 4 - 2 + 2, over

Upperdale: Mute Swan - 2

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 6 - 4 together; 2 others heard. ; Pheasant - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Bramall Lane: 324 - 1 - Bat - flew across the stadium early afternoon

Ecclesfield park: Common Gull - 1 - Fly through calling.

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 2

Handsworth: Pink-footed Goose - c200 - Going high SE at 08:40

Loxley Valley: 320 - 2 - 2 males on Olive Wheel Dam ; Mandarin - 8 - 4 pairs together on River Loxley, downstream of Rowel Bridge

Moorhall: Yellowhammer - 6 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 4 ; Stonechat - 1

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling around 2230hrs

Redmires: Pink-footed Goose - 197 - 2 skeins flew west - 135 at 09:15; 62 at 11:45 ; Lapwing - 47 ; Curlew - 1 ; Herring Gull - 15 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 48 ; Dipper - 1 - on upper reservoir ; Redwing - 85

Ringinglow: Redwing - 10-20+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1

Rivelin Valley: Raven - 2 - flying north over Tofts Lane, calling

Totley Moss: Fieldfare - c120 - flock dropping into heather late afternoon

Walkley garden: Blackcap - 1 - male in bird bath

Aldwarke: Peregrine - 1 - Over Liberty melting shop 15.20

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - sat on water tower from 0823hrs

Barlow Common: Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1215hrs

Catcliffe Flash: Raven - 1

Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: Siskin - 5 - Over west,calling.

Millhouses: Pheasant - 1 - First for Marriott Road in 42 years.

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 3 ; Goldeneye - 1 - on main lake disturbed by swimming dog. ; Common Buzzard - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - N ; Mallard - 37 - all NE in small groups ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - SE ; Fieldfare - 1 - N with a Redwing ; Redwing - 2 - singles N & W ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - singles W & NE ; Goldfinch - c50 - flock ; Siskin - 3+ - over ; Greenfinch - 14 - all W, inc flock of 10 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Herring Gull - 4 - 1 SW; 3 N ; Common Gull - 1 - near-adult, SW ; Bullfinch - 1pr - dropped in ; Goldcrest - 1

R Don, Burton Weir: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter ; Grey Heron - 1 - very tame adult

R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - c50 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Feral Pigeon - 211 - feeding on the food delivered about every 1/2 hour. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2nd or 3rd winter ; Goosander - 4 - males

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Siskin - 2+ - over

Redmires Bottom Res: Greylag Goose - 132 ; Canada Goose - 25

Redmires conduit: Fieldfare - 20+

Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - sub-ad left to SE ; Greylag Goose - 111 - in fields on Soughley Lane - possibly more but hidden by drystone wall ; Canada Goose - 25 - in fields ; 320 - 3 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Siskin - 21 - flew W ; Lesser Redpoll - 7 - flew S ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - on Top Res ; Lapwing - 52 - on Middle Res

Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 5 - max on pylon overlooking ponds

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - c.120 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 10+ - skeins heard heading east at 08.45 and 09.05 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 2