Sightings Archive

Totley Bents: Siskin - 22 - Feeding in Birch trees. Mobile ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 - 6 in Birch, 4 on feeders

Totley Moor: SNOW BUNTING - 1 - still present this morning ; SNOW BUNTING - 1 - Briefly showing well on main track at 10:00 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting

Totley Moss: Peregrine - 1 - SE towards Barbrook.

Tyzack*s Dam: Mandarin - 2 ; Wood Duck - 1

Beauchief Golf Course: Goosander - 4 - 3M 1F Top pond ; Mandarin - 10 - 6M 4F Middle pond

Bramley: Robin - 1 - Singing at dawn in observers garden. ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Over

Canklow: Pink-footed Goose - c 140 - 2 skeins west at 11:10 and 11:18 c70 in each skein

Catcliffe Flash: Kestrel - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Cormorant - 4 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - c60 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Jackdaw - 1+

Firsby Res: Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 - Perched together ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 - together calling. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Jackdaw - 8 - Over. ; Siskin - 2+ - Over calling. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Pheasant - 2 ; Redwing - 4+

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 15+ ; Nuthatch - 2

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 10+ - To feeders

Kimberworth Park: Kestrel - 1 - Male continues to hunt over gardens, Remount/Roughwood Rd, as in previous days and weeks.

Lady Clough: Crossbill - 3 - Between Alport Moor and A57, north of Birchin Clough.

Low Common: Meadow Pipit - 1 - calls

Morehall Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 50+ ; Mistle Thrush - 4 ; Goldfinch - 1

Moss Valley, upper: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Dowy Lumb area ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Raven - 2

Orgreave: Pink-footed Goose - 50 - Tight bunch of c50 headed NW at 09:43

Orgreave Lakes: Skylark - 2 - Together ; Canada Goose - 130+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 35+ ; Pochard - 50+ ; Goldeneye - 4+ ; Goosander - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 12+ ; Herring Gull - 12+ ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Cormorant - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 300+ ; Gadwall - 6 ; Wigeon - 50+ ; 320 - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 5 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling near River overspill ; Treecreeper - 2 - Along river ; Pochard - 91

Redmires: Curlew - 1 - still in fields Brown Hills Lane

Shepherd*s Plantation: Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - on Pingle Lane Tip ; Skylark - 5 - fields to north ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - flew over rough grassland near Hollings Lane entrance at 07.30 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling pre-dawn ; Mute Swan - 5 - pair and 3 imm. ; Coot - 15