Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Wood: Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

Whirlow Park: Mandarin - 30 - c. feeding under trees by main lake ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Whiteley Woods: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Barlow: 319 - 1

Barlow Brook: Grey Wagtail - 1

Canyards: Stonechat - 2 - pair

Catcliffe Flash: Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Tufted Duck - 6+ ; Wigeon - 50+ ; Shoveler - 1 - Male ; Gadwall - 10+ ; 319 - 1 - Mobbed by crow

Damflask Res: Goosander - 1 - imm/eclipse drake

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 11 ; Shoveler - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male on telegraph pole. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Redwing - 20+ - On berries along hedgerow. ; Fieldfare - 1+ - With Redwing. ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male

Gillfield Wood: Goldfinch - 2 - Field near the Wood ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

Green Moor: Stock Dove - 5 ; Barn Owl - 1 - Flew across road this evening

Hagg Lane Allotments: Marsh Tit - 1 - Probable Marsh, (not Willow) visiting feeders

Hallam Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 130 - Flying west at 0915

Holmesfield: Kestrel - 1

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Wren - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Robin - 1+ - at least 1singing ; Blackbird - 20+ ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c22 - nocmig 21 calls 00:00-01:00, 8 calls 18:00-22:00 ; Song Thrush - 1 - nocmig, 2 calls 04:48

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 2 - a pair, the first visit this autumn

Millthorpe: Long-tailed Tit - 6

Moscar Cross: Pink-footed Goose - c270 - skeins of c200 and c70 over W 9:00-9:10 ; Brambling - 1 - calling ; Dunnock - 1 - dropped from height into top of larch. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1+ - calling ; Woodpigeon - c750 - SW in two flocks 8:30-9:30

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 20+ ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Pochard - 50+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25+ ; Lapwing - 25+ ; Goosander - 7 - 1 male ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; 320 - 3 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4

Peat Pits: Stonechat - 1 - male

Ramsley Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 170 - over SE at 15:55

Ravenfield Park: Goosander - 1 - Redhead in carp pond.

Redmires Res: Pink-footed Goose - 200 - c. flew NW in 2 skeins at 09:05 hrs ; Stonechat - 4 - along conduit ; Raven - 1 ; 320 - 4 - on Middle Res

Stanage Edge: Golden Plover - c30 - circling over N end

Totley: Goldfinch - c.45

Totley Rise: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 235 ; Starling - 15 - W at t09.30 ; Snipe - 3 - West between 07.40 and 10.00 ; 321 - 1 - W at 09.40

Tyzack*s Dam: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - On water for a short time before flying off.

Ughill Moors: Stonechat - 1 - male

White Lee Moor: Mistle Thrush - 2 - 1 singing

Wingfield: Pied Wagtail - 1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over, scattering FP flock ; Feral Pigeon - c70 ; Cormorant - 7 - on pylon

Bolsterstone: Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Raven - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Cordwell Valley: Kestrel - 1 ; Carrion Crow - c230 ; Jay - 1