Sightings Archive

Sunday 15th January 2023

• Graves Park: Goosander - 8 - 3 Male, 5 Female
• Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; House Sparrow - 25+
• Harthill: Mallard - 80 - c. ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male ; 320 - 18 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - ad winter ; Cormorant - 5 ; Coot - 3 ; Little Egret - 1 - on Middle Res ; Linnet - 18 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Rook - 60 - c. ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Kestrel - 1
• Herringthorpe Valley Park: Siskin - c40 - flock, in streamside alders ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing
• Herringthorpe Wood: Nuthatch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - in woodland edge, mobbed by crow ; Dunnock - song
• High Moor: Greylag Goose - 160 - c. in fields - off N
• Holdworth: Little Owl - 1
• Kiveton Community Woodland: Bullfinch - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - female
• Lodge Moor: Common Gull - 3 - in fields with BHGs
• Longshaw: Mallard - 26 - On pond. ; Mandarin - 47 - On pond. ; Brambling - 28 - In beechs behind the main house
• Loxley Chase: Common Gull - c20 - foraging in fields off Myers Lane
• Marsh Lane: Kestrel - 1
• Moss Valley - Ford dam: 321 - 1
• Moss Valley, lower: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1
• Nitticarhill: Kestrel - 1
• Old Ravenfield: House Sparrow - 20+ - In Horse Paddock near Pingle Lane entrance gate. Also a flock at top of Garden Lane. ; Fieldfare - 30+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Skylark - 9 - In the air together singing over Arbour Lane.
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c170
• Pebley Pond: Kestrel - 1
• Pingle Lane Tip: 319 - 1 - Circling surrounding fields. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 - Landed in top of small tree. ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - With Redpoll. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Flew from Brambles.
• Poolsbrook Marsh: Mute Swan - 2 - ads ; Kestrel - 1 - with prey ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - calling ; Grey Heron - 1 - ad ; Jay - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - flushed by male Sparrowhawk ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male hunting ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Redwing - 10 - c.
• Porter Clough: Brambling - c60 - In car park area.
• R Don, Aldwarke: Dunnock - song ; Mute Swan - 3 - 2 adults (yellow 3Y07 & Y979) & 1 unringed 2cy ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mallard - 3prs ; Jay - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - feeding by river, calling frequently ; Redwing - 1
• R Don, Effingham St: Mallard - 31 ; Goosander - 1 - Imm male.
• Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 5 ; 319 - 1 - Low in Woodland. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting in Silver Birch. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Flew up stream calling them over the new pond. ; Siskin - 3 - Numbers low this winter. ; Stock Dove - 6+ - Feeding on farmland at Hooton Roberts end.
• Rivelin Valley: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Mandarin - 4 - 2 pairs
• Rockingham Wood: Nuthatch - 1 - singing
• RVCP: Raven - 1
• Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Redwing - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Magpie - 7+ ; Carrion Crow - 1
• Shillito Wood: Raven - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Fieldfare - 35+
• Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 4+ - Calling, also 1 coming to seed in small car park on Hollings Lane. ; Coal Tit - 2+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling in centre of wood. ; Chaffinch - 6 - Small flock.
• Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 - Resident Female and remains of last years juv partially eaten on Lagoon Shore.