Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 5

Oughtibridge garden: Blackcap - 1

Rawmarsh; Bellows Road: Starling - c40 - flock on favoured mobile mast

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Great Tit - 1 - female, in garden ; Blue Tit - 2 - in garden

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 19 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Redwing - 14 - Moving through trees westwards ; Woodpigeon - 15 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Magpie - 3

Scholes Coppice: Redwing - 6+ - From Holly. ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Tufted Duck - C50 ; Pochard - 10 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Great Crested Grebe - 15 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Redwing - C100 ; Blackbird - 20 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Robin - 12 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 - One smart male in mostly summer plumage

Troway: Redwing - 6

Wharncliffe Wood: 319 - 2

Agden Res: Mandarin - 14 - Incl 6 males

Brightholmlee: Barn Owl - 1 ; Redwing - 10

Brownhills Lane: White-fronted Goose - 1 - Still with Greylags

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 17

Dore: Kestrel - 1

Ecclesall Woods: Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 2 - On top pond

Firsby Res: Mallard - 10 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male through site causing panic among small birds. ; 319 - 3 - In the air together over site calling and being mobbed by crows. ; Little Owl - 1 - On farm building. ; Jackdaw - 6 - Over. ; Jay - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male calling. ; Redwing - 2+ ; Fieldfare - 2+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 - Calling in Hedgerow. ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+

Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 2 - present this morning but departed at 09:45

Millhouses Lane garden: Tawny Owl - 2 - duetting in the vicinity ; Blackcap - 1 - male visiting the suet balls

Norton Lees: Starling - c80 - In trees on Thorpe House Rise

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - c4

Orgreave Lakes: Wigeon - 22 ; Goldeneye - 4 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 259 - Between 14.30-16.15 of which 102 stayed to roost. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 18 - In roost ; Herring Gull - 196 - In roost ; Black-headed Gull - C500 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair on what is left of the plains. ; 328 - 1 - drake PochardxFeruginous Duck with the Pochard flock ; Stonechat - 2 - 2 in main lake east side reeds. ; Shoveler - 4 - 2ad drakes & 2 imm drakes ; Great Black-backed Gull - 120 ; Wigeon - 32 ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Reed Bunting - 3

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 40 - in flight

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - c20

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 840 - Roosted ; Moorhen - 1 - Flew towards willos in SW corner late afternoon ; Mallard - 4

Soughley Lane, Redmires: White-fronted Goose - 1 - First-winter still feeding in fields below Redmires with Greylags ; Greylag Goose - 65

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Tufted Duck - C50 ; Pochard - 10 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Greylag Goose - C120 ; Canada Goose - C80 ; Great Crested Grebe - 15 ; Little Grebe - 9 ; Lapwing - 122 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Redwing - C100 ; Fieldfare - 60 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; 319 - 1