Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Little Grebe - 1 ; 320 - 93 ; Skylark - 12 - At least 12 in fields on way to hide

Norton Lees: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling in the early hours

Rowland: Greenfinch - 2

Spittal Houses: Swallow - c30

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 22 ; Canada Goose - c400 ; Pink-footed Goose - 150 - 150 east 08:20 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Skylark - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Chaffinch - 40+ - Small influx this morning ; Goldcrest - 7

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Stock Dove - 2 - near Thrybergh Bar Mills

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 20+

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Chiffchaff - 4 - 1 singing ; Stock Dove - 4 - on adjacent stubble with WPs

Firsby Res: Peregrine - 1 - Circling high above Buzzards. ; 319 - 3 - In air together over big pond. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female. ; Swallow - 10c ; House Martin - 6+

High Low: Goldfinch - c50 - Among thistles in field on hillside above Highlow Wood.

Low Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 2 - hunting between Morley Pond and copse ; Swallow - 2

Middle Common, Scholes: 319 - 2 - on telegraph poles near Rockingham Wood ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting from telegraph pole near Cinder Hills

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - adult and juv ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Coot - 8 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Woodpigeon - 40+ - field at Peacock Lodge ; Carrion Crow - 15+ - field at Peacock Lodge ; Jackdaw - 7+

Orgreave Lakes: Common Scoter - 2 - Drake and Fem type ; Common Scoter - 2 - Drake ; Hobby - 1 - Briefly then appeared to head north. ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 ; 320 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Porter Brook, Sharrow Vale: Dipper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Rockingham Wood: Wren - 1 - calls ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - calls ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

RVCP: Shoveler - 4 ; Pochard - 11 ; 320 - 42 ; Gadwall - 47

Tankersley: Greenshank - 2 ; 320 - 23 ; Snipe - 7+ ; 319 - 2

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - 1 - Still around nest site off Hesley Lane

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Mute Swan - 22 ; Canada Goose - c450 ; Greylag Goose - 18 ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; 320 - 4 ; Lapwing - 30 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - west ; Swallow - 4 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Goldfinch - 20 ; Linnet - 12 ; Meadow Pipit - 30+ - Southward ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 1pr+ - + 5 full-grown juvs (pair inc 324Y red) ; Pochard - 7 - 5m ; Tufted Duck - 25 ; Mallard - 50 - small parties arriving ; Gadwall - 25 - lots of noisy courtship chasing ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - adult ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Little Grebe - 2 - 1cy ; Swallow - 12 - feeding over before drifting SW ; Kingfisher - 1 - male, fishing on S edge ; Shoveler - 10 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm, E edge ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing along E edge