Sightings Archive

Sunday 11th October 2020

• Nether Haugh; Clay Hill: Skylark - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c5 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c70 ; Stock Dove - c10 - with WP flock ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Goldcrest - 7+ - two parties, in tit-flocks ; Redwing - c95 - c40 left Hawthorn scrub SW; 51 SW ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over, interacting ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in tit-flock ; Jay - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 - in birches ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - roosting bird, found by local Blackbirds ; Skylark - present - small numbers moving S
• Norwood Allotments: Fieldfare - 6 - over southwest ; Redwing - c375 - over west or southwest ; Redwing - c167 - 167 this afternoon, including 125 shortly before dusk, giving 542 for the day but missed 9:00 - 2:00. ; Pink-footed Goose - 58 - over east at 18:30
• Orgreave Lakes: Pochard - 52 ; Poch/Tufted/Scaup hybrid - 1 - with Pochard flock ; Little Egret - 1 - Fishing successfully on small lake ; Coot - 45 ; Little Grebe - 3 - Small lake ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 - 2 adults and 2 imms on small lake; 3 adults on large lake ; Tufted Duck - 46 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Imms ; Cormorant - 5 ; Goldfinch - 40 - Feeding on teasles ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 6
• Owler Bar: 319 - 1
• Peat Pits: Redwing - c600 - flocks heading W up Tinker Brook and heading out over White Lee Moor. ; Fieldfare - c80 - over W with Redwings ; Skylark - c20 - in fields, one singing. ; Swallow - 3 - over W
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Pheasant - 12 - 6m; 6f
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Pheasant - 1 ; Redwing - c70 - c30 leaving Hawthorn scrub just after dawn; c40 SW ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Magpie - 15 - in same tree, post-roost ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 3
• Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 32 - on Bottom Res ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Greylags - presumably feral individual from earlier in the year ; Mallard - 26 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm flew W ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - flew W ; Common Gull - 1 - ad flew W with BHGs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - flew SW ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad flew W ; Magpie - 14 ; Jay - 5 - singles flew W in 2 hrs ; Jackdaw - 36 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Coal Tit - 11 - flew W in 2 hrs (inc party of 8) ; Bullfinch - 8 - flew W in 2 hrs (inc party of 6) ; Chaffinch - 18 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 4 - flew W ; Greenfinch - 5 - flew W ; Crossbill - 10 - flew W ; Redwing - 3700 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Song Thrush - 7 - singles flew W in 2 hrs amongst large Redwing movt ; Blackbird - 2 ; Fieldfare - 42 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Skylark - 6 - singles flew SW in 2 hrs ; Starling - 25 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Swallow - 2 - Feeding around Bottom Res
• Rockingham Wood: Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Jay - 1
• Shepherd*s Plantation: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Resting in tree tops for about 5 mins, then harassed by 2-3 Magpie, took off and circled high over wood and Town Lane.
• Sothall: Golden Plover - 2 - nocmig sound recorded over garden between 1900-0600hr ; Redwing - 27 - nocmig sound recorded over garden between 1900-0600hr
• Thrybergh CP: Whooper Swan - 1 - flew around the Res calling at 09:00 but would not land; departed west ; Stonechat - 2 - At least 2 birds in South paddock ; Skylark - 40+ - Flushed by farmer ; Little Grebe - 12 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Pochard - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Mute Swan - 32 ; Swallow - 3