Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ads roosted ; Herring Gull - 2 - ads roosted ; Jackdaw - 90 - c. ; Starling - 100 - c. roosted in reed bed ; Swallow - 6 - feeding over fields - left to the south

Rawmarsh; High Street: Redwing - c15 - W @ 1100hrs

Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Low over field S heading for pond in Hudson's Rough possibly. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - from shrub adj to field.

RVCP: Kingfisher - 2 - chasing each other Main Lake ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - Meadowgate Lake

Ulley Brook Bog: Merlin - 1 - prob female hunting fields.

Agden Beck: Red Kite - 1 - Overhead heading S towards Strines Res

Agden Side: Crossbill - 3 - over S

Big Moor: 324 - 30+ - Red Deer ; Kestrel - 1

Bradfield Moors: Fieldfare - 30-50 - A couple of small flocks flying west, also numerous Redwings.

Catcliffe Flash: Gadwall - 56 ; Wigeon - 96 ; Shoveler - 16 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Mute Swan - 6 - 2 adults and 4 imms ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Canada Goose - 11 ; Coot - 94 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; 320 - 2

Cinder Bridge Field: Stock Dove - 1 - on wires ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 - 1pr + 1f on ground; much excited calling, pair retiring to nearby tree & f leaving ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over from SE; drifted away to NW

Dale Dike Res: Red Kite - 1 - Cruising over Blindside Lane

Dog Kennel Pond: Cormorant - 1 - resting high in tree then W over Morley Pond ; Black-headed Gull - 25+ ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - on water, then perched in bare treetop ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over, drifted S

Ecclesfield: Common Buzzard - 2 - Pair circling and calling, Hartley Brook, drifted South. ; Canada Goose - 23 - Flew south low,calling 18.00

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2+ heard

Green Moor: Common Buzzard - 3 - Flying together

Handsworth garden: Collared Dove - 5 - Under feeders ; Coal Tit - 5 - On feeders ; Goldfinch - 9 - On and around feeders

Hathersage (Scraperlow): Wren - 3+ - A family of Wrens

Longshaw: Redwing - 100+ ; Redwing - 100+ - Another photo ; Fieldfare - 25

Loxley Common: Redwing - 30 - 30 over golf course

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 30+ - nocmig: best Redwing night so far (19:00-00:00) 40 calls, numbers estimated.

Millhouses: 319 - 2 - Together over Archer Rd shopping centre

Millhouses Lane garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - m & f separately ; Siskin - 1 - juvenile ; Bullfinch - 9 - 4 m, 4 f, 1 moulting juvenile ; Greenfinch - 2 - pair ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 8 - 5 adults, 3 juveniles ; Great Tit - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - f ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Magpie - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 - adult & juvenile males

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - juv male ; 319 - 1 - drifted S from Peacock Lodge farm ; Coot - 1+ ; Redwing - 2 - W @ 11:10 ; Coot - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c15 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - f/imm ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Redwing - 25 - SW ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - c50 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Swallow - 2

Nether Haugh; Clay Hill: Pheasant - c80 - in 2-3 fields ; Red-legged Partridge - 5