Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Pied Wagtail - 8 ; Skylark - 12+ ; Blackbird - C20 ; Redwing - 16 ; Fieldfare - 8 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Goldfinch - 40+ ; Linnet - 6 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Chaffinch - 20+

Tinsley: Pink-footed Goose - c120 - Flying west in high skein at 08:15

Triangle Pond Treeton: Redwing - 30+ ; Raven - 1

Agden Rocher: Red Kite - 1 - juvenile headed from Moscar to White Lee Moor.

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 7 - on pylon

Aldwarke SF: Song Thrush - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Coot - 6 ; Gadwall - 5 - 3m; 2f ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Moorhen - 6 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Greenfinch - 1

Barlow Common: Kestrel - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - 3 in the air together with 2 ravens at 1600 ; Raven - 2

Crowhole: Kingfisher - 1 - showing very well ; 319 - 6 - including 4 repeatedly showing in same bins shot ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Goldfinch - c30

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Over sluice calling. ; Pink-footed Goose - 50+ - Heading towards M18 over farmland. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male through site very fast. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male through site very fast. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - On telegraph pole. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On pylon. ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Still present brief burst of song from sluice Reed bed. ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Siskin - 6+ - In treetops calling. ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - Over calling the first of the Autumn. ; Bullfinch - 3+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 3+ ; Treecreeper - 1

Gleadless: Pink-footed Goose - 20 - West over Charnock playing fields at 10:00

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Jay - 1

Handsworth garden: Goldcrest - 1 - feeding on insects in crab apple tree

Hundall: Raven - 3 - 3

Norton Lees: Long-tailed Tit - 17 - Warminster Road

Orgreave Lakes: Kestrel - 3 - 2 hunting 1 perched on Bush @07.30 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Whooper Swan - 3 - Two adults, one juv in at 09:50. ; Lesser Redpoll - 30+ ; Whooper Swan - 3 - 3 adult birds flying south. ; Kestrel - 4 ; Goosander - 2 - 2 redheads on river. ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Skylark - 10+

Parkgate: Common Buzzard - 1 - very low, heading N/NW @c1100hrs

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 38 ; Skylark - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Rook - 1 - albino bird , now feeding by itself.

Rawmarsh: Grey Wagtail - 2 - 1 S, then SW @ 0725hrs; 1 roof of Earl Grey PH later ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - on roof of Earl Grey PH ; Siskin - 1 - 1 heard over @ 0730hrs

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - female calling briefly around 0615hrs

Redmires Res: Mallard - 25 - c. ; Canada Goose - 30 - c. ; Greylag Goose - 30 - c. ; Pink-footed Goose - 155 - c. 90 E distant + c.65 W at 09:20 hrs ; Whooper Swan - 5 - ads SW at 07:45 hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting over Bottom Res ; Kestrel - 1 ; Raven - 2 - mid-morning ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - arrived from SW - dropped into plantation by Bottom Res at 09:30 hrs ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - flew W ; Woodpigeon - 800 - c. flew S in 2 hrs ; Jackdaw - 80 - c. flew NW in 2 hrs ; Jay - 1 - flew W ; Fieldfare - 5 - flew W ; Redwing - 12 - flew W ; Chaffinch - 15 - flew NW