Sightings Archive

Spittal Houses: Swallow - 2 ; 319 - 7 - In air together calling

Thorpe Hesley: Chiffchaff - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Wentworth Lakes: Wheatear - 1 - top of hawthorn hedge, track from Dog Kennel, into ploughed field @ Peacock Lodge

Wentworth Park: House Martin - 30+ - feeding low over fields and hedges, either side of main track through park

Wentworth, Mill Dam: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - field, S side ; Mallard - 20+ ; 319 - 2 - together, between Mausoleum and dam, 11:10 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Coot - 9 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Adults ( Y437 and Y751), onto grass to preen ; Kingfisher - 1 - along SW edge ; Little Owl - 1 - calling, N of W end, near stream

Westwood CP, High Green: Osprey - 1 - Made 3 failed attempts to catch fish around 1130.

Barley Hall: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; House Martin - c30 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Burbage South Edge: Ring Ouzel - 10-Dec - Flew from rocky outcrop into Rowan tree at 12:45 SK268812

Elsecar; King*s Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1315hrs

Hoober Lane: Kestrel - 1 - in adjacent field

Middle Common: Swallow - 33 - resting on telegraph lines above cover crop

Middleton Moor: Stonechat - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Parson Cross: 319 - 3 - two birds interacting and calling. ; House Martin - 3 - South.

Ramsley Moor: Chiffchaff - 3 - Including one singing briefly ; Stonechat - 3 ; Swallow - 10+ - Singles moving S-W

Rawmarsh Hill: Common Buzzard - 1 - W over road at rooftop height @ 0804hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Grey Wagtail - 1 - hear over ; House Martin - 2 - S @ 1030hrs ; Goldfinch - 10 - flock, visiting gardens

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 20

Scholes Village: Stonechat - 1 - female,feeding from and returning to concrete posts,S of Little Lane ; 319 - 1 - moving W gradually over fields S of Little Lane @ 10:00 ; Swallow - 10+ - around Little Lane ; House Martin - 10+ - @ Little Lane ; Goldfinch - c50 - feeding in area "set a side" behind Red House Farm

Thorpe Hesley: Magpie - 8 - in field with corvids ; House Sparrow - c40 - in hedgerow ; Swallow - 10 ; Skylark - 10 - in field

Upper Common, Scholes: Sparrowhawk - 1 - juvenile, failed attempt at Skylarks, landed briefly, chased off by crow toward W side of Rockingham Wood. ; Skylark - 30+ ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; Linnet - c50 ; 319 - 1 - near Remount Cottages @ 11:57

Wentworth: Black-headed Gull - 100+ - following ploughing tractors, 50+ @ Scholes Ground, 70+ @ field E of Trowles Wood

Wharncliffe Res: Snipe - 7 - NW 13.20

Wortley: Skylark - c15 - Single group in fields ; House Martin - c50 ; Swallow - c15 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 - Within mixed group ; Blue Tit - c30 - Within mixed group ; Chiffchaff - 4 - With tit group ; Nuthatch - 01-Feb - With tit group ; Yellowhammer - 3

Baslow: Goldcrest - 2 - In monkey puzzle tree in observer’s garden

Ecclesfield Dam: 319 - 4+ - Soaring high above Shroggs wood. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Seen twice hunting ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1+ - Distress call when Sparrowhawk flew over. ; Osprey - 2 - Juv at pond c9:20, 11:40, and fishing on and off 13:45 - 15:10 when it caught 3 fish, a large Bream (which it presumably dropped as it returned fishing a couple of minutes later), and two small fish one of which was a Roach. Joined by a second bird for a few minutes at 14:05, circling and even calling. ; Osprey - 2 - photos ; Osprey - 2 - photo ; Osprey - 2 - photo of second bird ; Osprey - 2 ; Osprey - 2

Ecclesfield Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - On stream near Bridge

High Green: Cormorant - 5 - NW 17.00

Middle Common: Swallow - 16 - feeding low over cover crop,then resting on power lines ; Skylark - 5+ - 1 singing briefly ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ ; Kestrel - 1 - feeding on prey, on telegraph pole

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 400 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Herring Gull - 1 - Adult ; 320 - 15 ; Pied Wagtail - 80+ - Feeding on shoreline and roosting in reedbed

Norton Lees: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Mute Swan - 1pr ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - feeding in shallow below weir ; Grey Wagtail - 01-Feb ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 - max, resting on top of weir

Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 4 ; House Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 8

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 21 ; Wigeon - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1