Sightings Archive

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Redwing - 5 ; Siskin - 7 ; Goldfinch - 21 ; Cormorant - 1 - E, towards Thrybergh CP ; Skylark - 1 - over ; Greenfinch - 1 - over

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 16 - on playing field ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - on playing field ; Chaffinch - 7 - feeding in leaf litter on edge of playing field

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Peregrine - 1 - low to S @ 1110hrs

Roundwood Golf course: Redwing - 12 ; Siskin - 28 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - feeding on fairway with single Fieldfare ; Fieldfare - 1 - feeding on fairway with single Mistle Thrush

Beighton Marsh NR: Fieldfare - 2

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Redwing - 6+

Chatsworth House: Pied Wagtail - 1 - in busy area between House & carpark

Chatsworth Park: Raven - 1 - high over Hunting Tower ; 321 - 1 - over near Emperor Lake ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - in fields at top of Park

Crookes Valley Park: Cormorant - 6 - High in a tree, flying and on the water ; Goosander - 1 - red-head foraging amongst emergent vegetation in southernmost corner of dam.

Darnall: Redwing - 17 - On bushes at Wilfred Rd

Foxhill: 319 - 1 - Circling over Shaw Hill Farm at 12:00

Harthill Res: Grey Plover - 6 - Six this morning

Morehall tip / R.Don: Goosander - 4 - 3m , 1f fishing on river. ; 321 - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 18 - in riverside trees. ; Nuthatch - 2 ; 319 - 2 - feeding on dead woodpigeon . ; Woodcock - 1 - disturbed from willow scrub. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting along river corridor.

Norton Lees garden: Greenfinch - 1 - First at feeder for quite a long time

R Don, Effingham St: Kingfisher - 2 ; Goosander - 6 - 2 males ; Herring Gull - c30 - No sign of any of the three Caspian Gulls. ; Goosander - 7 - 3 male, 4 redheads late afternoon ; Greylag Goose - 2 - 2 of the long-staying farmyard types (both white, one with brown on head) remaining ; Mute Swan - 2 - pair

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st. w. on roof of recycling plant, Warren Street at15.15 hours. Large (presumably male) unringed individual with no obvious grey patch in right wing ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - possible 1st. w. at Warren Street. Plumage and structure looked good but not seen well enough.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 2 - drifted low to S @ 1155hrs ; Dunnock - 1 - one in full song in garden in spring-like conditions

Roe Wood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Calling at 13:05

Scholes Coppice: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Redwing - 1+ ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 2+ - calls ; Jay - 1+

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 3 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Redwing - c.100 ; Fieldfare - c.100 - noticeably fewer thrushes around site now ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Jay - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - over

Smithy Wood, Chapeltown: Snipe - 15 - On wasteland below woods

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - Male still present east bay with Pochard ; Tufted Duck - 60+ ; Pochard - 14 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Gadwall - 60+ ; Goosander - 5 ; Lapwing - 72 ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 12 ; Grey Partridge - 15 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Wortley: Lesser Redpoll - c50 ; Woodcock - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Bolehill Flash: Fieldfare - 150+

Bowden Housteads Wood: Redwing - 61 ; Fieldfare - 12

Ecclesfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from garden, Cross Hill, at 20:48.

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 6 - 5m+1f on upper lake

Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Confiding individual in around the tables at cafe

Fulwood Lane: Brambling - 3 - 1M + 2F with Chaffinches feeding under large beech trees in field adjacent road

Hangram Lane: Lapwing - 20 - Small flock feeding in field adjacent road ; Redwing - 10 - Feeding in field adjacent road alongside Lapwing

Kilnhurst Hall Wood: Jackdaw - c50 - flock, wheeling over for several minutes before drifting W

Porter Valley: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing on river by Shepherd Wheel at 13:35

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circled over, drifted N @ 1110hrs