Sightings Archive

Kilnhurst Ings: Mute Swan - 2 - Yellow leg rings Y351 & Y332

Kimberworth Park: Corvid - 30+ - including Rooks, Jackdaws and 9+Magpie, scattered across field and Forty Martyrs

Meersbrook Park: Redwing - 7

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 6 - 3 pairs. One male bird displaying. ; Goldeneye - 6 - second picture ; Kingfisher - 1

Orgreave Tip: Bullfinch - 4 ; Greenfinch - 1

Owler Bar: Little Owl - 1

Porter Valley: Magpie - 18

R Porter, General Cemetery: Mandarin - 6 - 5 males 1 female

R Rother, Orgreave: 320 - 11

Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on Methodist Church spire around 1330hrs; on nearby mobile mast later

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 4 - in garden briefly

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Rushy Wood, Broomhead: Coal Tit - 9+ - 9-10 at feeders opposite Margarets Seat ; Blue Tit - 6+ - 06-Jul ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 - unusal on feeders here but dominating the fat balls and blocks ; Great Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 - feeding on fat blocks ; Nuthatch - 3 - feeding mainly on seed and peanuts ; Goldcrest - 2 - in top of conifer seemed to timid to come lower ; Robin - 2

Simon Wood, Elsecar: Magpie - 20

Thornseat Delf: Crossbill - 2 - Feeding on ground by wall at top of track ; Fieldfare - 15 - In sheep field at top of track

Thorpe Hesley: Magpie - 1 - Inspecting old nest ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Lapwing - 120+ - Over 3 fields ; Redwing - 40+ ; Fieldfare - 12

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Grey Partridge - 13 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Water Rail - 1+ ; Lapwing - 140+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1F ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Jackdaw - 18

Wentworth: Nuthatch - 2 - 1,1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Whiteley Woods: Grey Heron - 1 ; Dipper - 2 - 1 seen feeding the other ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Grey Heron - 1 - possibly the same as Whiteley Woods ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 4

Agden Res: Whooper Swan - c18 - flying west-north-west over reservoir at 15:45

Bingham Park: Goldcrest - 1

Botanical Gardens: Treecreeper - 1

Brownhills Lane: Raven - 1 - Over calling heading S late afternoon ; Greylag Goose - 104 ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Chapeltown Park: 319 - 4 - Circling together

Damflask Res: Whooper Swan - 19 - Flew in from W. at 08.50. Still there at midday ; Whooper Swan - 19 - 16 ads, 3 juvs ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Endcliffe Park: Redwing - 1 - Bathing in river watched by Robin ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 - Female on upper pond

Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - M&F

Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 10 - 2 on Grey Hill, with 8 in tree top at bottom of hill.

Linacre Res: 320 - 37 - unusual here even in single figures ; Goosander - 6 - 4m, 2 redheads ; Cormorant - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Malin Bridge: Woodpigeon - 2 ; Magpie - 2 - Nest building ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 1

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 2 ; Red-crested Pochard - 2 ; Red-crested Pochard - 2 - second picture ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Goldeneye - 5 ; Whooper Swan - 2 - Still present at dusk. ; Red-crested Pochard - 2 - Pair present at dusk. ; Goosander - 52 - At dusk. ; Whooper Swan - 2 ; Pochard - 109 - on small ice free patch . one male bird with a nasal saddle B6. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Adults ; Mallard - 12 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Goldeneye - 6 - 2 males lots off display and one pair copulating. ; Tufted Duck - 87 ; Coot - 129