Sightings Archive

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Black-headed Gull - c50 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - display noted ; Lapwing - c90 - flock, on island exposed by low water ; Moorhen - 6 ; Mallard - 10 ; Snipe - 2 - on muddy margin exposed by low water

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Mallard - c40 ; Coot - c20 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Little Owl - 2 - 'duetting' from adjacent trees in parkland to N

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantn: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - singles singing, SK4096 & SK4196

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 21 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Mandarin - 1 - drake ; Wigeon - 2prs - grazing on bank at W end ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over, calling; drifted S ; Nuthatch - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - c5 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - aerial display ; Coot - c15 ; Mallard - c40 ; Cormorant - 4 - 1 E, then returned W; 3 circled & left NE

Wentworth Park; N of Dog Kennel Pond: Song Thrush - 1 - singing on Roman Ridge ; Kestrel - 1 - male, flew into traditional nesting tree

Wentworth Park; Upper Swallow Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Agden Side: Raven - 2 - flying over

Aldwarke Bridge: Kestrel - 1 - over

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 4 - 4 in the air together at 1100

Canyards: Kestrel - 1 - hover hunting

Catcliffe Flash: Little Egret - 1 ; 321 - 1 ; Gadwall - 30 ; Pochard - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 14

Cowell Flat: 319 - 1+ - soaring ; Carrion Crow - 3

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2 pairs ; Grey Heron - 1 - juvenile, fishing in shallow water(W end still drained),later onto Morley ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 2+

Graves Park: Goosander - 2 - On boating lake ; Herring Gull - 1 - On boating lake ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 100

Heeley City Farm: 321 - 1 - flying over

Herringthorpe Valley Road: Kestrel - 1

High Bradfield: Dunnock - 3 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Jackdaw - c4 - one going in to traditional breeding site, cavity under roof on farm building ; Robin - 3 - singing males ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 8+

Kirk Edge: Carrion Crow - 2 ; Mallard - 6 - flying south ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; 319 - 01-Feb - one hovering on updraught ; Kestrel - 1 - hovering on updraught on edge ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Skylark - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Lapwing - c30 - flock flying about ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Great Tit - 1

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Treecreeper - 2 ; Siskin - 3 ; Coal Tit - 6 - singing males

Low Common: Skylark - 1+ - singing ; Jay - 1 - in copse

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair, Y316 and Y035 ; Greylag Goose - c30 ; Canada Goose - 3 - with Greylags, estate workers attempting to move/kill? gun shots, charging with buggies and dogs ; Mandarin - 1 - male, among mallards and Tufted ducks and Greylags, latter returning to water after several circuits ; Mallard - 50+ ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Coot - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - 40+ - over fields N of lake

Morthen Lane: Kestrel - 1 - in roadside tree