Sightings Archive

Longshaw: Siskin - 50/60 ; Treecreeper - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 6 - Looked like a family group ; Spotted Flycatcher - 6 - Another photo ; 324 - 1 - Brown Hare ; Jay - 2

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Shelduck - 2 - juvs ; 320 - 6 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1000+ ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3+ - at least 3 adult types ; Shelduck - 2 - juvs ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Herring Gull - 1 ; 320 - 11 ; Moorhen - 2 - juvs ; Knot - 1 - looked like an ad winter rather than juv, dropped in c20:00 in poor weather, mildly harrassed by BHG and joined 2 Ringed Plovers for a while, still present at dusk amongst BHG's on mud.

Moorhall: Redstart - 1 - Female/imm flew across road

Moscar Cross: Wheatear - 1 - On stone wall

Moss Valley, Troway: Song Thrush - 1

Moss Valley, upper: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Redstart - 1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 6 ; Jay - 2+ ; Stock Dove - 4 - over ; Bullfinch - 1+ - calling ; Linnet - 1 - W ; Pheasant - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Willow Warbler - 3 - inc 2 giving brief song ; Jackdaw - 6 - E ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 1 NW/W; 2 SW, all adults ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - single 'flava' wagtails S @ 0815hrs & N @ 0923hrs ; Siskin - 1 - heard over ; Swallow - 5 - 4 juvs E; 1 ad W ; Chaffinch - 1 - W ; Reed Bunting - 1 - W ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - calling ; Common Buzzard - 2 - circling/interacting high over @ 0925hrs; drifted E ; Swift - c160 - arriving from N/NE & feeding over, peaking @ 50-60 @ 0845hrs & c40 @ 0945hrs, all dispersing SW (0700-1000hrs); estimate probably conservative. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - 1 over (SK4396); 1 very vocal, full grown juv (SK4296) ; Sand Martin - 2 - feeding with Swifts

Parkgate; fields to W: House Martin - 10-Dec - feeding over cereals

Ramsley Res: Stonechat - 8+ ; Whitethroat - 2

Rawmarsh: Swift - 2 - N(!) @ 1545hrs

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Coal Tit - 1+

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Magpie - 8 - on playing fields ; Rook - 12 - on playing fields ; Black-headed Gull - 9 - on playing fields ; Jackdaw - 11 - on playing fields

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 5 ; Blackcap - 1 - f/juv, eating blackberries

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Mallard - 21 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 22 - flew SW - inc several obvious intermedius ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - flew SW ; Kestrel - 2 ; Crossbill - 6 - flew high to the SE ; Tree Pipit - 5 - Flew WSW in 3 hrs despite strong winds ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Swallow - 25 - Flew SW ; House Martin - 4 - Flew SW ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - Juv by Top Res

Thrybergh CP: Osprey - 1 - c09:00 - drifted slowly from east to west across the main bay and west arm at between 75 and 100 feet before turning round. Over Doncaster Point it started to circle upwards and disappeared in heavy cloud.

Walkley garden: Willow Warbler - 2 - 2 in birch and snowberry with 4 blue tit

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantn: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over briefly

Whirlow Hall Farm: Goldfinch - 60+ - 50+ on big patch of thistles in Christmas tree area, plus small parties elsewhere ; Swallow - 20+

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 0746hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon

Big Moor: 324 - 2 - Young Red Deer Stags

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Low over railway lines, Barrett estate.

Calver Mill: Mandarin - 38 - In field next to camp-site

Ecclesall: Willow Warbler - 1 - in Church Yard ; Swift - 1 - Flew S

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 1 - Flushed from main Res. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Flew over sluice and settled on reed at end of main Res. ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ - Flushed from ploughed field by Juv Peregrine. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 30+ - With BHG. ; Swift - 2 ; Swallow - 2 ; Swallow - 2 ; 319 - 1 - Soaring over site. ; Kestrel - 2 ; Peregrine - 1 - Juv in stoop which flushed BHG flock. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling near road.

Fulwood: Blue Tit - 6+ - visiting bird bath in observer's garden

Longshaw: Kestrel - 1

Millhouses: House Sparrow - 45+ - Flock In the observer's garden. Another good breeding season with young fledged from at least four nests on the premises.

Morehall Res: Cormorant - 5 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1