Sightings Archive

City Road Cemetery: Starling - c30 - Singing from within holly tree with occasional forays of single birds to neighbouring whitebeam tree to eat berries. ; Jay - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Robin - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2

Clough: 319 - 1 - caught prey, then onto hedge then stubble field - SK413941.

Fulwood: Swallow - 5 - single party E over observer's house this morning; some snatches of song

Handsworth: 319 - 4

Hudson*s Rough: Grey Heron - 1 - @ pond. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - @ pond. ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Killamarsh: Pink-footed Goose - c.117 - Flying east over observer's house at 09:10 (record photo)

Langsett Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 139 - ENE 8.40-8.50 in groups of 120, 10, 1 and 8 ; Peregrine - 1 - South ; Raven - 13 - Locally north in 2 groups of 6 and 7 ; Redwing - 2 - South ; Skylark - 4 - North ; Greenfinch - 7

Low Common: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - feeding and calling from tree in copse

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 1 - nocmig 21:59

Redmires Res: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - C. in two skeins at 08:52 (c.120) and 09:22 (30) ; Swallow - 6 ; House Martin - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Hunting over Bottom Res ; Long-tailed Tit - 4

Silverwood Lagoon: Stonechat - 1 - male in reeds and gorse in north-west corner of lagoon ; Skylark - c.25 - steady passage south in ones and twos 08.00 - 10.00 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - c.80 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4

Sothall: Sandwich Tern - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0100hr ; Redwing - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden ; Barn Owl - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 2336hr

Thrybergh CP: Pink-footed Goose - 142+ - 142 East at 09:05 - other birds calling but not picked up

Upper Common, Scholes: Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - in gorse with 1+ BT.

Wentworth: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting, hovering low over field off Linthwaite lane 13.30

Barlow Common: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Skylark - 08-Sep ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Coal Tit - 1

Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1

Burbage Rocks: Black Redstart - 1 - Further down valley. Past 9th Oak and quite mobile ; Meadow Pipit - 10 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - Juvenile

Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female/immature flew south along Hartley Brook hunting.

Ewden Height: Meadow Pipit - 135 - South 07.05-08.40 ; Chaffinch - 19 s ; Redwing - 7 ; Pied Wagtail - 11 s ; Crossbill - 5 s ; Linnet - 7 s ; House Martin - 4 s ; Skylark - 5 s - 1 successfully escaped a Merlin chase ; Song Thrush - 2 s ; Starling - 3 s ; Merlin - 1 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Raven - 3 ; Stonechat - 5 - Family group

Fulwood: Long-tailed Tit - 15 - party through garden this morning, including one with plastic rings pink over light blue on one leg. ; Goldcrest - 1 - with Long-tailed Tit flock in observer's garden

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 1 - nocmig, first of autumn 02:38

Midhope Res: 320 - 3 ; Crossbill - 1+

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 7 ; Mallard - 8 ; Hen Harrier - 1 - briefly on south side of Middle Res at 07:15 hrs - left to SW ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 60 - flew W ; Meadow Pipit - 50 - flew S in 2 hrs ; Skylark - 3 - flew SW ; Mistle Thrush - 12 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Chaffinch - 12 - flew W

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 7 - at 14:00

Sothall: Tawny Owl - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden

Walkley garden: Chiffchaff - 1

Aldwarke SF: Stock Dove - 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - 2 on treatment works; 2 over ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - flushed by BZ ; Moorhen - 4 ; Shoveler - 5 - 3m; 2f ; 320 - c25 ; Mallard - c30 ; Coot - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Aldwarke; *Mushroom* roundabout: Herring Gull - 2 - adult & imm on lamp post @ 0650hrs