Sightings Archive

Load Brook: Dunnock - 1 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Collared Dove - 1

Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 1 - on spire of Methodists' Church

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - c.1050 - Roosted ; Common Gull - 6 - Roosted with BHGs ; Mallard - 2 - Single pair; only wildfowl present

Rother Valley CP: Shag - 0 - The juv Shag at RVCP yesterday has been reported dead this morning, still on the main lake island.

Wortley: Lapwing - c200 - Initially seen to the NE before they flew low west over Wortley. ; Mallard - 170+ ; Redwing - c40 ; Woodpigeon - c500 ; Greenfinch - c80 - Sizeable group feeding on crop to NE of hall on farmland. ; Goldcrest - 4+ ; Jay - 1 ; Skylark - 10+ - Brief song when sun appeared ; Red-legged Partridge - 30+ ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Finch sp - c30 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3+ - With Skylarks in stubble field ; Whooper Swan - 4 - South @ 09:14 ; Chaffinch - c30 - With Greenfinch ; Linnet - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 27 - south @ 09.05 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On Wortley Hall roof

Agden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Mandarin - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 7

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; 320 - 23

Orgreave Lakes: Dunlin - 1 - On island

Oughtibridge garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male

Pebley Pond: Shelduck - 1 - first for several years ; Black-headed Gull - C85 ; Mallard - C35 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - low to W, then NW @ 1320hrs

Rawmarsh; Bellows Close: Grey Heron - 1 - settled on bungalow roof briefly @ 1430hrs before leaving W, then N

Rivelin Valley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - An almighty tussle to kill a woodpigeon in observers garden

Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 22 ; Greylag Goose - 184 ; Canada Goose - 690 ; Grey Heron - 5 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 27 ; Mallard - 248 ; Gadwall - 12 ; Wigeon - 164 ; Shoveler - 1 ; 320 - 9 ; Tufted Duck - 60 ; Pochard - 11 ; Goldeneye - 1 ; Goosander - 5 ; Coot - 310 ; Moorhen - 17 ; Lapwing - 80 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 16 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 105 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Redwing - 15 ; Shag - 1 - juv sat on rock on N side of the main lake island with Cormorants 12:40 (photo left hand bird) ; Shag - 1 - another photo ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Greylags on main lake

Scholes Coppice: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Linnet - 60+ - Along NE edge of Raspberry Plantation

Thrybergh CP: Pink-footed Goose - C600 - C600 passed East 0955

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - hunting, same bird? seen hour later resting in tree NE edge of Scholes Coppice, feet away from finch flock.

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Woodpigeon - 800 - NE 13.00-14.15 ; Jay - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Redwing - 5+ ; Stonechat - 2 - pair

Wharncliffe Wood: Goldcrest - 5+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+

Catcliffe Flash: 320 - 7 ; Wigeon - 137 ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Tufted Duck - 6+ ; Gadwall - 10+ ; Shoveler - 3