Sightings Archive

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - singles, all SW ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - N ; Greenfinch - 1 - over ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Starling - 14 - flock, W ; Blackbird - 1 - SW with Redwings

Porter Clough: Green Woodpecker - 1 - heard calling

Redmires Res: Peregrine - 1 - juv male by Top Res ; Stonechat - 1 - imm male on track to Stanedge Pole ; Kestrel - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Fieldfare - 20 - flew SW ; Cormorant - 2 - left to E ; Crossbill - 10 - c. feeding flock in Broadshaw Plantation

Thrybergh Tip: Bullfinch - 5 ; Siskin - 7 - over, inc flock of 5 ; Mute Swan - 2 - adults colour-ringed 324Y (red) & damaged yellow ring beginning '3' ; Coot - 46 ; Mallard - 29 ; Gadwall - 30 ; Shoveler - 8 - 4m; 4f ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Wigeon - 1 - drake ; 320 - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 - 1 on flash + 1 SW ; Moorhen - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Canada Goose - 2 - flew in ; Black-headed Gull - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Lesser Redpoll - 1+ - over ; Stock Dove - 6 - on pylon ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 - high to W/NW ; Snipe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - singing

Totley Moss: Red Grouse - 1

Troway: Grey Partridge - c20 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Mandarin - 10 - 7m & 3f

Agden Side: Fieldfare - 200ish

Aldwarke: Pink-footed Goose - c300 - 30 W @ 0855hrs, passing a skein of c270 heading E @ 0857hrs ; Cormorant - 3 - SW ; Mute Swan - 1 - SW @ 0728hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1pr - one on chimneys from 0730hrs; both present from 0750hrs with several unsuccessful cooperative hunting sorties

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; Redwing - 4+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+

Birley Edge: Blackcap - 2 - male and female - first at garden feeding station this winter

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew down river towards Rotherham 14.42 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Wren - 1 - Alarm call ; Cormorant - 2 - Over ; Mallard - 6

Freebirch: Golden Plover - 52 ; Lapwing - 150

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Longshaw: Brambling - 100 - 120 - inc 1 with aberrant plumage

Midhope Res: Black-headed Gull - c3260 - West to Langsett Res roost 3-4pm ; Common Gull - 4 - West with BHG. ; Cormorant - 1 - NE ; Mistle Thrush - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 6 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Mallard - 56 ; Siskin - 2 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Starling - 10 - west ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - 72 - Flew NW ; Linnet - 100 - On 'Plains' ; Skylark - 20 - On former tip ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Fem in scrub at small lake. My 1st here in over 5 years ; Stonechat - 3 - 1 South end of Big Lake Pair on 'Plains' by houses. ; Goldeneye - 4 - 3m 1f ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Goosander - 19 - 13m 6f ; Pochard - 60+ ; Lapwing - c 35 ; Starling - c 70 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 15+ - left 1615 N ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Wigeon - 5 - 3m 2f ; Mallard - c 20 ; 320 - 7 - m ; Greylag Goose - 1 - ! ; Tufted Duck - c 40 ; Black-headed Gull - c 300 - departed S at 1640

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Goldcrest - 1