Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 76 ; Pochard - 3 ; Goldeneye - 3 ; 320 - 7 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 20+ ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Siskin - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 43 ; 319 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Robin - 10+ ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Coot - 48

Walkley: Waxwing - c 30 - Loose flock over to East ? disturbed by very low flying light aircraft at 14:50

Wharncliffe Wood: Brambling - c30 ; Brambling - c30 - Another pic ; Siskin - c30 ; 327 - c15 ; Woodcock - 2 ; Goldfinch - c30 ; Common Gull - 1 - Heading towards Langsett Res

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 3 - 3 males ; Goosander - 3 - males ; Cormorant - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 - Another photo ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 6 ; Mandarin - 4 - 3m 1f ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1

Black Lane, Tankersley: Wigeon - 4 - Grazing in water on flooded field section. ; 320 - 3 - With Wigeon

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 90+ - Roosting In the usual trees opposite Brightside Way at 15:50.

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Red-legged Partridge - 5+

Crosspool: Waxwing - 82 - counted from photo of flock in flight outside 600 Manchester Road ; Tawny Owl - 1

Ecclesall: Waxwing - 14 - in trees on Renshaw Road at 13:14 hrs

Fulwood garden: Redwing - 3 - feeding in leaf litter ; Blackbird - 8 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 9 ; Collared Dove - 3

Low Bradfield: Red Kite - 1

Low Common, Scholes: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - c150

Middle Common, Scholes: Magpie - 12 ; 319 - 3 ; 321 - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Blackbird - 4+ ; Magpie - 4+ ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Linnet - 1+ ; Reed Bunting - 1

Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 11 ; 320 - 37 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Lapwing - 30 ; Peregrine - 1 - Male over fields between lagoon and Longstone Edge

Midhope Res: Tufted Duck - 3 - 2m

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Long-tailed Tit - 20-25 - flock ; Common Buzzard - 2 - together; left W/NW ; Redwing - c20 - some subsong in warm sunshine ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Jay - 3 - 1 (SK4396); 2 (SK4296)

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Kestrel - 1 - hunting by Roman Ridge ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - in weedy field ; Red-legged Partridge - 11 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - on manure heap ; Skylark - 65-75 - on stubble; largest flock seen locally for some time ; Yellowhammer - 24 - with Skylarks on stubble ; Reed Bunting - 8 - in edge of weedy field

Orgreave Lakes: SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - showing well 11.25 - 12.00 ; GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - occasionally showing well, but diving frequently 11.25 - 12.00 ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - with LBB Gulls and Herring Gulls on main lake, west side ; Pochard - 4+ ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; CASPIAN GULL - 2 - first winter and second winter until early afternoon when most of large Gulls left. Photo of 1w ; CASPIAN GULL - 2 - photo of 2w ; GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Poolsbrook CP: CASPIAN GULL - 2 - adults on main lake per DOS

Ramsley Moor: Snipe - 2 ; Jack Snipe - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 10+ ; Pink-footed Goose - 67 - SW at 10:30

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/imm; left N though possibly same bird seen later ; Long-tailed Tit - 15-20 - noisy flock ; Kestrel - 1 - male, disturbed with prey on ground

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Bullfinch - 1 - calling ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling

Redmires Middle Res: Greylag Goose - 70