Sightings Archive

Longshaw: Brambling - 7+ - Male, Discovery Centre ; Brambling - 7+ - Male, Discovery Centre ; Willow Tit - 1 - Photo ID ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ - Discovery Centre ; Siskin - 4+ - M&F, Discovery Centre ; Blue Tit - 8+ - With many Great Tits, Coal Tits, Chaffinches, Goldfinches, Robins, Blackbirds, Discovery Centre ; Nuthatch - 1 - Discovery Centre

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - 10+ ; Curlew - 57 - large group flew in from the north east ; Pheasant - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 21 ; Oystercatcher - 7 ; Woodpigeon - 7

Manor Fields Park: Carrion Crow - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 5+ ; Magpie - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Siskin - c15 ; Wren - 2 ; Blue Tit - at least 5 ; Goldfinch - at least 20 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blackbird - at least 6 ; Robin - 3 ; Dunnock - at least 4 - 2 singing males ; Bullfinch - 5 - Three together feeding on buds of flowering cherry alongside city road cemetery, plus a separate pair ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Mallard - at least 7 ; Greenfinch - at least 1 - "wheezing". ; Moorhen - at least 3 ; House Sparrow - 2+ ; Kingfisher - 1 - Caught a fish from the pond.

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard ; Greenfinch - 1 - Heard regularly at top of Park

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 12 ; Lapwing - 25

Millhouses Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mallard - 1m 1f ; Moorhen - 1

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 25 ; Red-legged Partridge - 12+ - from S wooded side ; Lapwing - 20+ - adj fields ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ - adj stubble field ; 319 - 1 ; Fieldfare - 60+ - with some Redwings W from S wooded side

Norfolk Heritage Park: Greenfinch - 6 - In trees by Guildford Ave entrance

Norton Lees garden: Goldcrest - 1 - On fatballs again

Rockingham Wood: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Silver Wood: Barn Owl - 2 - Hunting over rough grassland behind Silverwood Test Centre at 07.15

Barlow Common: Skylark - 50+ - still in winter flock ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c. 7

Broomhead Res: Treecreeper - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Goosander - 7 ; Mandarin - 8 ; Mallard - 12 ; Robin - 2

Damflask Res: Greylag Goose - c60 - flew round and landed in neck end

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - On upper lake at 17:20

Firsby Res: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting at dusk.

Forge Dam: 319 - 2 - Together ; Mandarin - 4 - M&F

Greystones: Blackcap - 2 - M&F in observer's garden ; Greenfinch - 2 - M&F in OG

Hillsborough garden: Song Thrush - 2

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Greylag Goose - 68 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - Together with Greylags ; Curlew - 1+ ; Skylark - 1 - Brief display song ; Lapwing - 30+ - Well spread out on territory ; 319 - 1

Manor Fields Park: Water Rail - 1 - in reedbed at top pond 16:20 ; Kingfisher - 1 - still fishing the top pond. ; Mallard - 4 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Redwing - 6 ; Blackbird - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - female in central area ; Goldfinch - 12

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming

Midhope: Curlew - 14

Midhope Res: Tufted Duck - 1

Millhouses Garden: Blackcap - 2 - males

Norfolk Heritage Park: Common Buzzard - 2 - 1 flew from usual spot near bowling green carrying Brown Rat, closely followed by the second bird.