Sightings Archive

Redmires Middle Res: Dipper - 1 - busily feeding on overflow sluice ; Dipper - 1 - another photo ; Dipper - 1 - and another photo ; Dipper - 1 - final pic

Redmires Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15 - c. roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 150 - c. Roosted ; Common Gull - 2 - ads roosted ; Mallard - 40 - c. ; Moorhen - 1 - on Middle Res ; Chaffinch - 20 - c. flew W ; Greenfinch - 6 - flew SW ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - flew SW ; Redwing - 30 - flew S ; Song Thrush - 1 - flew S with Redwings ; Fieldfare - 50 - flew SW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - in clough by Bottom Res ; Lapwing - 35 - in fields

Rockingham Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over scrub behind Shepherd's Plantation. ; Skylark - 6+ ; 319 - 1 - Hunting low over flax crop @12:00.

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Red Kite - 1 - Patch tick! Drifting low towards Wortley 9.40

Agden: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male ; Tufted Duck - 5 - Males ; Jay - 2 ; Siskin - 5 - M&F ; Wren - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Aldwarke SF: Stock Dove - 7 ; Grey Heron - 1 - N, then NE ; Redwing - c50 - c30 down + 19 N ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - 9 ; Greenfinch - 6 - together ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4+ ; Mallard - 11 ; 320 - c15 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Shoveler - 7 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Raven - 1 - heard calling ; Peregrine - 1 - ad, probably male, on water tower

Canklow Woods: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - 2 south at 1615

Coal Aston: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - heard

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Jackdaw - 8 - SW ; Redwing - 4 - inc 2 SW ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Moorhen - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Linnet - 1 - over

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 6 ; Nuthatch - 3 - heard ; Jay - 1

Hutcliffe Wood Road: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - flew towards crematorium

Longshaw: Fieldfare - 30 ; Mistle Thrush - 6 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Blackbird - 2

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c25 - nocmig: 12 calls 00:00-07:30, 24 calls 20:00-23:00

Moss Valley: 324 - 1 - Hare - in field by Plumbley Lane ; Kestrel - 2 - Marsh Lane

Orgreave Lakes: Rock Pipit - 1 - Northern end of main lake early morning. Not seen later. ; Jack Snipe - 1 - Flushed from northern end of main lake early morning, flew off SW

Redmires Bottom Res: Great Grey Shrike - 1 - at 14:10 ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Redmires conduit: Snipe - 1 ; Fieldfare - c. 30

Redmires Middle Res: Dipper - 1 - feeding in roadside outfall again till disturbed.

Redmires Res: Stonechat - 4 - male by Bottom Res + 3 on track towards Stanedge Pole ; Fieldfare - 300 - Flew S in 2 hrs ; Raven - 1 - along conduit ; Chiffchaff - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Raven - 1 - west at 09.45, being mobbed by a couple of the local Carrion Crows

Thrybergh CP: Whooper Swan - 3 - flew around 09:40 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Pochard - 10 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Mute Swan - 44 ; Linnet - 80+ - Two large mixed flocks of goldfinch and linnets with a few siskin and LRedpoll and greenfinch mixed in ; Gadwall - 6

Thrybergh Tip: Shoveler - 32 - 17m; 15f ; Tufted Duck - 21 - all wildfowl flushed by fisherman, most returning ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 - 'sharming' ; Mute Swan - 6 - 1pr + 4 1cy (family party) ; Crossbill - 1 - W @ 0825hrs ; Little Grebe - 2