Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Snipe - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Mobbing something in paddock above Lagoon. ; Reed Bunting - 2+ - Calling.

Wisewood Forge Dam: Tufted Duck - 4 - males

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 85

Chatsworth Park: Red Kite - 1

Ecclesfield: Lesser Redpoll - 5 - Feeding in birch in Cross Hill garden.

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 - Resident pair. ; Grey Heron - 4 - 3 roosting in set aside, 1 on main Res. ; Water Rail - 1 - Call only. Flooded willows. ; Woodcock - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Over calling. ; Redwing - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Siskin - 10+ - Treetops above Sluice. ; Lesser Redpoll - 5+ ; Linnet - 12 - Noisy flock over far end of main Res. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+

Graves Park: Nuthatch - 1 - heard

Green Moor: House Sparrow - 25+

Lodge Moor Road: Common Gull - 1 - 1st winter with c 50 Black-headed Gulls

Old Ravenfield: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Around puddle end of Spring LaneZ ; Greenfinch - 8 - On St James drive. ; Skylark - 1 - Field between church and Arbour Lane.

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 17 - at dusk ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Herring Gull - 51

Porter Clough: Brambling - 15 - Approx 15 with larger Chaffinch flock.

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+ ; Siskin - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Robin - 2 - one investigating former nest site.

Redmires Bottom Res: Cormorant - 1 - adult, then left N late afternoon ; Canada Goose - 56

Redmires Res: 320 - 23 - on Middle Res ; Tufted Duck - 2 - males on Top Res ; Black-headed Gull - 6 - roosted on Top Res ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunting far side of Middle Res at 16:30 hrs

Silver Wood: Tawny Owl - 2 - Roosting in silver birch. ; Nuthatch - 5 - Lots of calling and activity all around the wood. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Jackdaw - 5 - Over calling.

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1 - In pool below lagoon.

Thrybergh CP: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Female type drifted over NE corner harassed by Lapwing

Waverley: Lapwing - 34

Barlow Common: Long-tailed Tit - up to 11 - up to 11 on the same feeder at the same time.

Bole Hill, Treeton: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, then E

Bolehill Flash: Redwing - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - c20 - mobile flock ; Goldcrest - 1 - with LT flock

Brownhills Lane: Black-headed Gull - c130 ; Starling - c200 ; Fieldfare - c100

Canklow Woods: Song Thrush - 1 - 1 singing

Ecclesfield: Lesser Redpoll - 14 - In birch again this morning, Cross Hill

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 100+++ - A very large number foraging across the whole grassed area north of Rustlings Road.

Graves Park: Goosander - 5 - 2 males, 3 females on Boating Lake ; Mallard - 40 ; Mandarin - 14 - 8 males, 6 females on top pond

Kiveton Community Woodland: Raven - 1 - Flew over, then in fields to South. ; Wigeon - 12 - On "Tommy Flocktons".

Kiveton Park: Waxwing - 1 - Single on what we call Tommy Flocktons opposite Kiveton Waters.

Longshaw: Mandarin - c46 - on pond ; Brambling - 50+ - Trees behind main car park. A few Chaffinches amongst them.

Old Flatts Farm, Treeton: Yellowhammer - c12 - flock

Pebley Pond: Goosander - 6 - (5 female 1 male) ; Cormorant - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2

R Derwent, Leadmill Bridge - Padley: 321 - 1 ; 319 - 2 - 2 individuals over ; Kingfisher - 1 - heard

R Rother, Treeton: Mallard - 2prs ; Moorhen - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting by Ulley Brook ; Song Thrush - 1 - by Ulley Brook

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 170 - c. roosted on Top Res

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - Male still present

Treeton Meadows: Canada Goose - 14

Treeton SF: Pied Wagtail - 50-60 - feeding on filters ; Carrion Crow - c80

Ulley Brook Bog: Common Buzzard - 1 - SE, up Ulley Brook valley

Whiston Meadows: Raven - 1 - over calling, then W along Whiston Bank towards Blue Man's Bower @ 0820hrs ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Siskin - 20 - feeding in alders

Bradway: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male on new nursing home building site.

Burngreave Cemetery: Red Kite - 2 - flying quite low over the cemetery heading in the direction of Town at 11:00

Canklow Woods: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - On flooded pond 1hen across to river 13:15.