Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Herring Gull - 474 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - C150 ; Water Pipit - 1 - Flew from small reed bed on east shore towards north shore. ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Snipe - 2 ; Pochard - 83 ; Grey Partridge - 6 ; Stonechat - 1 - Male ; Woodcock - 1

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Goldcrest - 2 - M posturing in front of F(?) with crown feathers raised ; Redwing - c15 - feeding on ground amongst leaf litter ; Goldfinch - Oct-15 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blackbird - 7 - 5m; 2f feeding in ivy ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 1 - male ; Robin - 1 ; Magpie - 8 - sat together in treetop

Rivelin Valley: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting rough pasture between Rod Side Rd and A57

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 6 ; Coot - 14 ; Moorhen - 2 - lagoon still 90% iced-over ; Herring Gull - 6 - party west ; Woodcock - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Jackdaw - 8 - party east ; Fieldfare - 11 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - c.15 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Pheasant - 15+

Stubbin, nr Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 8 - soaring together @ 1300hrs; most dispersed to W over Wentworth Park

Summerley: Kestrel - 1 ; Redwing - 10 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 3

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Tufted Duck - C60 ; Pochard - 18 ; Gadwall - 9 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Greylag Goose - C260 ; Canada Goose - C40 ; Lapwing - 100+ ; 319 - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 15 ; Little Grebe - 10

Walkley garden: Goldcrest - 1 - single bird in apple trees

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 4 - on pylons

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1pr - on chimney

Bitholmes Wood: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew with a Blackbird in its talons. ; Woodcock - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 5 ; 319 - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - and a Roe deer on the track.

Catcliffe Flash: Tufted Duck - 10 ; Wigeon - 2 - Male ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Gadwall - 38 ; Shoveler - 3 - Male ; 320 - 36 ; 319 - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Curbar Edge: Lapwing - 40+ - Feeding in pasture along with Fieldfares ; Fieldfare - 10+ - Feeding in pasture.

Damflask Res: Mandarin - c30 ; Cormorant - 2

Dronfield: Snipe - 1 - On Gosforth wetland ; 319 - 2 - Above Monk Wood

Eaglestone/Jack Flat (Big Moor): Kestrel - 1 - F/imm perched on wall hunting, seemed reluctant to be disturbed by us walking past it; perhaps prioritising feeding over fear in difficult conditions.

Ecclesfield: Fieldfare - 1 - In field beside Butterthwaite Hall ; Redwing - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male, hunting. ; Blackbird - 6 - Feeding on windfall apples in garden.

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 165 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - On the ice. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Feeding in small ice free area at waters edge. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Down from tree onto road in front of observers car.