Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Coot - 94 ; Pochard - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Canada Goose - 91 ; Mute Swan - 6 - Family party, with 4 imms taking several flights around the flash ; 320 - 4 ; Shoveler - 13 ; Mallard - 12 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - c.60 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8

Load Brook: Crossbill - 5 - In pine trees in private woods along tarmac track

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c4 - nocmig 6 calls 20:00-23:00

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1600+ - At 17:00 .Birds still coming in ; Starling - 1500+ - Roosting in reedbed in front of hide ; Pied Wagtail - 80+ - At least 80 feeding on shoreline and then roosting in reeds ; Yellow-legged Gull - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 220 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Common Gull - 1

Midhope Res: Goldeneye - 1 - drake

Onesacre: Wheatear - 1 - Male again, same place as on 26th

Rivelin Valley: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling in the early hours near Wolf Wheel

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1 - went up from boggy ground near overflow pool below NW corner of lagoon. First site record this year ; Fieldfare - c60 - loose flock SW ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Siskin - 1 - west ; Jay - 12+ - widespread and vocal around pit top at moment ; Skylark - 6 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Jackdaw - 3 - east ; Long-tailed Tit - c.30 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Mute Swan - 6 - 2 of juvs. now departed

Sunnyside: Short-eared Owl - 1 - Perched on garden fence for 30 mins from 10:30

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 8

Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - c400 - no sign of any shrike ; Redwing - 80+ ; Blackbird - 20+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Wharncliffe Side: Redwing - 3+ - at least 3 in cherry tree in observers garden ; Goldfinch - 16 - in observers garden ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Collared Dove - 14 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Langsett: Starling - 42 - NW in groups 35,7 ; Stock Dove - 25 - SE in groups of 4,5,1,14 and 1 ; Woodpigeon - 150 - SE ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Singing! ; Redwing - c30 ; Blackbird - c15 - Numerous and flighty, some assumed migrants.

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 86 - displaying

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c6 - nocig 6 calls 00:00-02:00, 4 calls 21:00-22:00

Orgreave Lakes: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 4th Winter in pre-roost

Redmires Res: Common Buzzard - 1 - drifted NW ; Lapwing - 64 - flew SW ; Dipper - 1 - still by Middle Res - now appears to be in poor health ; Woodpigeon - 940 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Fieldfare - 695 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Redwing - 25 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Song Thrush - 1 - flew S with other thrushes ; Starling - 35 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Meadow Pipit - 22 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Chaffinch - 218 - flew S/SW in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 446 - flew S/SW in 2 hrs ; Skylark - 1 - flew SW ; Goldfinch - 34 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Blackbird - 1 - flew N ; Crossbill - 4 - flew W

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 29 ; Pochard - 18 ; Tufted Duck - 30 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Lesser Redpoll - 24 ; Linnet - 60 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Redwing - 15 ; Fieldfare - 82 ; Blackbird - 12 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Lapwing - C 55 ; Skylark - 6 ; 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c12 - nocmig: 4 calls 01:00-03:00, 14 calls 19:00-00:00 ; Song Thrush - 1 - nocmig 21:42

Wentworth Estate: Mistle Thrush - 1

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Goldfinch - 12