Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Water Rail - 2 - singles 'squealing' in NE corner (SK4696) & on S edge (SK4596) ; Coot - c20 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Cormorant - 11 - 1 on flash; 10 SW in parties 5 ; Chiffchaff - 14+ - inc 3 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+ - 2 flocks ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Treecreeper - 3 - singles calling ; Jay - 02-Mar ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult, E

Upper Common, Scholes: Linnet - 20+

Graves Park: Nuthatch - 4 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 11

Handsworth garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - In with mixed tit flock.

Lodge Moor: Grey Wagtail - 2 - drinking from water pool on garage roof.

Orgreave Lakes: Common Scoter - 2 - Female types. ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Juv still present.

Ramsley Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - c15 - flock flying overhead towards Big Moor

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 15 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Lapwing - 32 - in fields ; Snipe - 1 - flushed on Roper Hill ; Meadow Pipit - 40 - c. grounded in fog ; Chiffchaff - 21 - around reservoir perimeter ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Siskin - 50 - c. again around Bottom Res ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 - c. ; Swallow - 20 - flew SW

Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 3 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - SW ; Cormorant - 1 - north ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Jackdaw - 8 - 4-2-1-1 north ; Jay - 6 - round pit top in ones and twos ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing on and off ; Chiffchaff - 6+ - one singing ; Long-tailed Tit - c.20 - two flocks roaming pit top ; Reed Bunting - 2

Tankersley: Greenshank - 2 ; Snipe - 5+ ; Lapwing - 6 ; 320 - 14 ; 320 - 14

Thrybergh CP: Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lapwing - C50

Whiston; Royds Moor: Common Buzzard - 5 - 4 soaring over together + 1 N low over road @ 1530hrs

White Edge: Wheatear - 1

Wortley: Swan sp - 4 - Lowish north 8.50. Fairly certain they were Mute based on size but didn’t have bins at time. ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+ ; Siskin - 20+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Meadow Pipit - c40 - South ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - South with Meadow Pipits ; House Martin - 10 - South ; Swallow - 5 - South ; Mistle Thrush - 14 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Barlow Common: House Martin - c. 40 - large flock, feeding in Barlow Common airspace for a while, but then moving on ; 319 - 1 ; Goldfinch - c. 20 - including good numbers of juveniles ; Chiffchaff - 2

Crookes: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Heard on Western Road

Ecclesall: Chiffchaff - 1 - still present in garden on Ansell Road

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Hobby - 1

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1 - Very short burst of song

Midhope Res: House Martin - 18 - East ; 320 - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Siskin - 16 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Goldcrest - 4+ - 1+ (SK4396); 3 (SK4296) ; Chiffchaff - 11+ - 6+ inc 1 singing (SK4396); 5+ inc 1 singing (SK4296) ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - calling from woodland ; Green Woodpecker - 01-Feb - calling ; Chaffinch - 3 - 2 E/SE; 1 E ; Jay - 4+ ; Swallow - 3 - 1 W; 2 over, then N ; Greenfinch - 2 - E/NE ; Raven - 1 - high to E/SE calling @ 0815hrs ; Meadow Pipit - 7 - all E ; Stock Dove - 1 - E/NE ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - W/NW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - flock