Sightings Archive

Sunday 12th December 2021

• Firsby Res: Fieldfare - 20+ ; Redwing - 2+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - Over together. ; Siskin - 30+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 4+ - Less around this year. ; Goldfinch - 12+ - Mixed Finch flock on Hawthorn. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Separate M + F. ; Bullfinch - 2+ ; Reed Bunting - 3+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling in undergrowth. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male.
• Handsworth garden: House Sparrow - 30+ - On crushed fat balls ; Collared Dove - 7 - Discovered crushed fat balls.
• Lodge Moor: Blackbird - 2 - feeding on cotoneaster
• Longshaw: Brambling - 15 - Feeding with mixed flock of tits ; Goldcrest - 7 ; Siskin - 12 ; Redwing - 4 ; Fieldfare - 9 ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Coal Tit - 12 ; Blue Tit - 15 ; Great Tit - 2
• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - 25
• Malin Bridge: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing in gardens - unusual here ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - unusual visitor to garden ; House Sparrow - 6 - garden
• Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 110 ; 320 - 12 ; Red-legged Partridge - 5
• Midhope Res: Mallard - 26 ; Moorhen - 1 - imm ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - flew south
• Moscar Flat: Starling - 80 - c. in fields
• Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 24 - At dusk ; Goldeneye - 3 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 124 - In pte-roost at 16.00 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 241 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - C1000 ; Goosander - 24 - At dusk ; Goldeneye - 3 ; Woodcock - 1
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 34 - 8 left SW, 1 returning NE ; Great Black-backed Gull - 9 - 8 ads, 1 1cy ; Herring Gull - c30 ; Mallard - c30 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Black-headed Gull - c40
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Goosander - 2 - both redheads, W/SW @ 0820hrs ; Mallard - 2 - E ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Redwing - 2 - NW
• Parkgate; Forge Way: Great Black-backed Gull - c30 - loafing on roof of industrial unit ; Herring Gull - c40
• R Don, Eastwood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 320 - 4 ; Mallard - 85 ; Gadwall - 2 - drakes ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Cormorant - 7 - 1 SW; 6 NE
• Ravenfield Church: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female fast through woodland scattering LT Tit flock.
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Starling - c100 - W/SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over
• Redmires Res: Raven - 1 ; Mallard - 42 ; 320 - 11 ; Curlew - 1 - still in fields on Soughley Lane ; Herring Gull - 12 - flew in from E ; Black-headed Gull - 40 - c. in fields
• Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 2 - calling in Hollings Lane sidings early morningg ; Mute Swan - 5 - pair and 3 juvs (other 3 juvs now departed). ; Coot - 19 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - regular adult ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Jay - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 - NW ; Jackdaw - 10 - a few north in ones and twos ; Siskin - 4 ; Redwing - c.20 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 - three flocks roaming pit top ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1
• Thornseat Delf: Bullfinch - 2
• Wadsley Common garden: House Sparrow - 14 - Around garden shrubs.
• Wiremill Dam: Mallard - 52 ; Mandarin - 18 - 14m, 4f ; Moorhen - 2 ; Goosander - 2 - pr ; 321 - 1