Sightings Archive

Sunday 12th February 2023

• Grange, Brick Kiln Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Magpie - 1+
• High Riggs, Stannington: Fieldfare - 40 - In fields north of High Riggs Rd flying onto telegraph wires
• Kimberworth Park: 319 - 1 - circling high above Shepherd's Plantation
• Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - female, first for a year or two, feeding on apples in garden. No sign of male recently.
• Markham Vale: Reed Bunting - 2 - singing males
• Nether Haugh: Redwing - 8 - Roman Ridge ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, Roman Ridge ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Goldfinch - 6 - Daniel Lane ; Chaffinch - 2 - inc 1 singing, Daniel Lane
• New Stubbin: Skylark - 3+ - singing over arable
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 22+ - flock ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - S together
• Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Stonechat - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Pochard - 80 ; Goosander - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 18 ; Black-headed Gull - 250 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; 320 - 3 ; Lapwing - 18 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Wigeon - 9 ; Herring Gull - 17 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Goldeneye - 3
• Oxpasture: Redwing - 30+ - Tree off Wheatlands Lane
• Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Poolsbrook CP: Mute Swan - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 34 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4
• Poolsbrook Marsh: Gadwall - 5 ; Coot - 4 ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - singing at back of main signal box pool ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing males ; Willow Tit - 1 - flew over reedbed and into willows ; Kingfisher - 1 - female by river ; Bullfinch - 2
• R Derwent near Bubnell: Canada Goose - c82 - Mix of Canada Geese & Greylags in riverside field
• R Derwent, Calver: Mandarin - 5
• Rawmarsh: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on Methodist Church spire; High Street
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Stock Dove - 1 - singing
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Redmires Top Res: Lapwing - 70 - Flying over top res
• Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 1 - Single adult at waters edge waiting for food It with water fowl (Orange leg ring)
• RVCP: Little Egret - 9 ; Goldeneye - 36 - in total ; Pochard - 28 - max for month
• Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 3 - lots of 'trilling' ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing in hedgerow below NW corner of lagoon ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Jay - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 1 singing ; Skylark - 1 - singing over fields to west
• Stopes: Lapwing - 7 - in ploughed field near Hallcliffe Farm ; Curlew - 2 - foraging in field north of Riggs High Road ; Black-headed Gull - c100 - foraging in field north of Riggs High Road ; Common Gull - 1+ - at least 1 foraging with Black-headed Gulls
• Waverley Estate: Golden Plover - 36 - On construction site between Wintergreen and AMRC.
• Wentworth Park: Jackdaw - c100 - flock, fields N of Greasbrough Dam ; Rook - c10 - with JD flock ; Carrion Crow - c15 - with JD flock ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singting ; Cormorant - 1 - N
• Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Jay - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Mute Swan - 3 - single adult + 2 adults arrived from E ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Coot - 7