Sightings Archive

Howden Res: Goldcrest - 23+ - 23+ recorded during a 10.5 mile circuit of Howden and Derwent Reservoirs. ; Crossbill - 8

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Raven - 1 - sorry the sightings should be Lady Cannings Plantation ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Longstone Moor: Swallow - 3 - Juv on barn gutter, with two adults still entering barn, presumably feeding young

Low Common: Black-headed Gull - 50+ - following tractor spraying tilled field

Manor Fields Park: Swallow - 3 - flew south 11:21 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - still at least 3 on park 10:40-11:50 ; Redwing - 4 ; Blackbird - 25+ ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 50+ - mobile flock around park. ; Lesser Redpoll - c15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Middle Common: Skylark - 1 - calls

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 550+ ; Starling - 300+ - Roosting in reed bed ; Pied Wagtail - 35+ - Roosting in reed bed ; Black-headed Gull - 225 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Herring Gull - 1

Parkwood Springs: Canada Goose - 10 - flew over at 07:00

Ramsley Moor: Kestrel - 1 - mobbed by Meadow Pipit

Rawmarsh: Grey Wagtail - 1 - SW @ 0900hrs

Redmires: Nuthatch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 8 - Still present on Top Res ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - 60 - c ; Lapwing - 8 ; Song Thrush - 7 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - seen briefly at entrance to conduit ; Mistle Thrush - 8 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 18 - mostly gathering in Res side bushes ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - First-year male ; Rock Pipit - 1 - Flew W at 08:48 hrs ; Chiffchaff - 2

Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 12+ - M&F feeding in trees on main rd adj to conduit ; Crossbill - 12+ - Male ; Crossbill - 12+ - Another male ; Tufted Duck - 9 - M&F ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Black-headed Gull - 15

Rockingham Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - feeding high in canopy ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1+ - calls

Shepherd*s Plantation: Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Stubley Hollow: Robin - 16 ; Pheasant - 5 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Magpie - 20

Upper Common, Scholes: Magpie - 10 - active along NE edge of Scholes Coppice

Aldwarke: Peregrine - 1 - Hunting near melting shop early morning. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male took Golfinch of feeder 15.40. Apparently second day running.

Endcliffe Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 18 ; Jay - 1

Fulwood: Chiffchaff - 1 - in observer's garden this morning ; 319 - 1 - over observer's garden mobbed by Crows; regular sight here these days

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Malin Bridge: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig 02:48 ; Redwing - 1 - nocmig 03:21

R Porter, Sharrow: Dipper - 1 - General Cemetery

Sothall: Golden Plover - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 3

Bassingthorpe Farm: Skylark - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - calls

Bingham Park: Goldcrest - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Botanical Gardens: 319 - 1 - over W towards Ranmoor

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Low circling over Barrett estate 12.25 moved West over Brinsworth.

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Blackbird - 1

Canklow Woods: Jackdaw - 100+ - west at 18:45

Chapeltown: Skylark - 2 - Singles north AM over house

Cinder Hills: 319 - 1 - low over trees, calling regularly @ 18:10.