Sightings Archive

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - c20

Redmires Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20 - c. roosted on Top Res ; Black-headed Gull - 120 - c. roosted on Top Res

Shepherd Wheel: Swallow - 2 - 2 juvs flew West ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male caught 3 fish in as many minutes.

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 1 - Calling.

Spout House Hill: Stonechat - 2 - pair flycatching on dry stone wall in fields to the west of Bud Lane

Thrybergh CP: Lapwing - 102 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Pochard - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Skylark - 24 ; Meadow Pipit - 22 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 31 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Linnet - 12 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 18

Thrybergh Tip: Common Buzzard - 1 - on pylon ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - feeding on flash; left W/SW @ 0814hrs (record shot) ; 320 - 4 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Gadwall - 37 ; Tufted Duck - 18 ; Shoveler - 13 ; Canada Goose - 3 ; Mute Swan - 4 - 1pr + 2 1cy ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 10 ; Water Rail - 2 - 'sharming' ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Coot - c40 ; Moorhen - 4+ ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Jay - 7+ - probably undercounted ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Swallow - 1 - S/SW ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - singles singing & calling from NW & SE corners ; Stock Dove - 2

Wire Mill Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding using Lily Pads as a raft. ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 5 - Flew over calling ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Second bird on Porter Brook below mill pond.

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - on top of chimney

Apperknowle: Pied Wagtail - 101 - 95 Pied Wag in freshly ploughed field plus at least 6 White Wag - clearly a fall with a minimum of 50 Meadow Pipits and 15 Skylarks in the same small field.

Barlow: 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Bradfield Dale: Stock Dove - c30 - flock foraging in ploughed fields north of Walker House Farm

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Over Whitehill Lane calling, flying East towards Canklow Woods 11.55

Froggatt Wood: 324 - 1 - fem Red Deer

Hallam Moor, South: Skylark - 84 - Heading S-SW, 09:30-11:00

Hangingwater allotments: Chiffchaff - 2 - feeding in hawthorns

Longshaw: 324 - c14 - 2 groups of Red Deer: 1 stag, 9f; 1 stag, at least 3f; Stags rutting

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 2 - Adults ; Dunlin - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 150 ; Lapwing - 10 ; 320 - 8 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ - In pasture before hide

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 2 - 2 Adults in from east at 09:40. ; Rock Pipit - 1 - On east shore ; Little Egret - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Meadow Pipit - 44 - S in 2hrs ; Long-tailed Tit - c8 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - heard over ; Linnet - 12 - flock, S ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - a male left strongly NE; adult male & female in full, aerial display over woodland on 4-5 occasions ; Chaffinch - 4 - all S ; Pied Wagtail - 9 - 'alba' wagtails; 5, 2 & 2, all S ; 327 - 1 - S ; Dunnock - 1 - left scrub to S, gaining height; presumed migrant ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - c120 - single skein E @ 0810hrs ; Mallard - 3 - NE ; Skylark - 4+ - 2+ S; 2 N ; Coal Tit - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Stock Dove - 3 - W/NW

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 2 - males, calling frequently, between 0400-0500hrs

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 40 - c. ; Greylag Goose - 20 - c. ; Mallard - 45 - c. ; 320 - 30 - c. ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Kestrel - 2