Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Fieldfare - 600 - c. flew S in 2 hours ; Redwing - 300 - c. flew S in 2 hrs ; Song Thrush - 3 - in with Redwings ; Blackbird - 20 - c. in Fairthorn Clough ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - in Fairthorn Clough ; Goldcrest - 5 - c. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - by Top Res ; Goldfinch - 20 - flew SW ; Brambling - 4 - flew SW ; Reed Bunting - 1 - flew SW ; Bullfinch - 7 - in Fairthorn Clough

RVCP: Goosander - 12 - Main Lake ; Little Egret - 1 - Main Lake island ; Kingfisher - 1+ - Main Lake and River Rother ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - in orchard behind the mill

Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 50+ - up from ground ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1

Thrybergh CP: Whooper Swan - 4 ; Fieldfare - 70+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 15

Wentworth; Barrow Field: Grey Heron - 1 - in field

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - Flew over calling

Wortley Park: 319 - 8 ; Redwing - c150 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Wortley vismig: Woodpigeon - 1377 - South ; Redwing - 834 - South 07:45-08:30 ; Fieldfare - 112 - South ; Blackbird - 1 - South, with Redwings ; Starling - c195 - West ; Tree Sparrow - 3 - South

Canklow Woods: Fieldfare - 50+ - flew south at 10:30 ; Redwing - 19 - 19 south at 1110 ; Fieldfare - 49 - 49 south at 1125

Chapeltown: Redwing - 17

Ewden Height: Redwing - 10+ ; Stonechat - Pair ; Goldcrest - 1

Fulwood garden: Goldcrest - 2 - Plus long tailed tit flock.

Greystones garden: Redwing - 1 - In observer's garden ; Song Thrush - 1

Howden Res: Fieldfare - 50 ; Kestrel - 1

Middleton Moor: Dunlin - 10 - revealed as the fog lifted at 10:30 ; Lapwing - 67 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; 320 - 31 ; Goosander - 1 - a redhead ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 82 ; Dunlin - 12 - at 16:00 ; Golden Plover - 13

Millhouses Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Redwing - 230+ - Three large flocks (70, 60, 100+) SSW between 09:30 and 10:30 ; Siskin - 16

Orgreave Lakes: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - second picture

Rawmarsh: Goldfinch - 10 - flock, visiting gardens; Rockcliffe Road ; Starling - c80 - c40 on mobile mast; Bellows Road + flock of c40 W

Wadsley Common garden: Fieldfare - c40 - Over garden heading SE at 09:15. ; Redwing - c30 - SE a couple of minutes after flock of Fieldfare.

Waterthorpe: Starling - 30+ - Flock arrive each morning for mealworms and raisins. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Chased starlings into the garden.

Damflask Res: Cormorant - 4 ; Jay - 1

Handsworth garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female, failed attempt at feeders ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On flat garage roof

Norton Lees: Redwing - 3 - Feeding on hawthorn berries

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling between 1200-0200hrs ; Chaffinch - 1 - male in garden ; Dunnock - 3 - together in garden

Silverwood Lagoon: Fieldfare - 2 - in southern paddocks

Sothall: Dunlin - 3+ - single nocmig recorded at 0329hr, followed by what sounded like a sizeable flock that took over a minute to pass at 0400hr. ; Redwing - 65+ - nocmig recorded calls overnight ; Blackbird - 5+ - nocmig recorded calls overnight

Barlow: 319 - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 6 ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Carr Vale NR: 325 - 1 - in from N at 9:50

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 116 ; Pintail - 1 ; Gadwall - 62 ; Mallard - 14 ; Coot - 78 ; 320 - 23 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Canada Goose - 19 ; Little Grebe - 6

Cutthorpe: Little Owl - 1