Sightings Archive

Roundwood Golf course: Grey Heron - 1 - flushed by groundsmen; left N/NE ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - unsuccessfully hunting small passerine; left NE along railway

RVCP: Shoveler - 3 ; Wigeon - 14 ; 320 - 40 ; Gadwall - 52 ; Cormorant - 33 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - drifted south 07-50 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Probably same as yesterday

Tankersley: Greenshank - 3 - Surprising reappearance after yesterdays no-show, wonder where they go? ; Ringed Plover - 1 - Harassed by Lapwings for some reason ; Snipe - 5 ; 320 - 11 ; 319 - 5 - Circling together ; Lapwing - 5 ; Swallow - c50 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew low over flushing all birds

Thorpe Hesley: Swallow - 12 ; House Martin - 10 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 28 ; Canada Goose - c200 ; 320 - 28 - Flew around for half an hour departed west ; Wigeon - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20+ - Moving southward in small numbers ; Lapwing - 40 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Swallow - 6

Wadsley: 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Brinsworth: 319 - 4 - Circling over Thirsty Flame/ Barrett Estate @14.27 moving South.

Grange Park Golf Course: Siskin - c15

Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Mute Swan - 6 - family party Y329 and Y465 with juvs preening, 329 came very close to observer feeding them, hissing and aggressive posture.

Millhouses: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flew over Grove Tennis Club at 08:15, calling

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - briefly into water ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; House Martin - c 30 - along N side, in and out from above water ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over W end of lake

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - circling high over, then east @ 1345hrs

Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - ad on Bottom Res ; Little Grebe - 4 - ads & juvs ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - flew S at 07:55 hrs ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - flew S calling over Bottom Res ; Chiffchaff - 13 - around reservoir perimeter ; Meadow Pipit - 30 - c. ; Siskin - 15 - c. ; Swallow - 25 - c. ; Snipe - 1 - flew NW calling ; Skylark - 1 - flew SW - first of autumn

Rockingham Wood: Wren - 1+ - song and calls ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls

RVCP: Snipe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 60 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1

Tankersley: Snipe - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - c30 - South in small groups

Thorpe Hesley: Swallow - c50 - mobbing Sparrowhawk ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 1

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 3 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Mute Swan - 31 ; Canada Goose - C250 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Swallow - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - Sat on pylon in NE ; 319 - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Chaffinch - 20+ ; Linnet - 40+ ; Goldfinch - 50

Upper Common, Scholes: Meadow Pipit - 1 - calling

Wentworth Park: Black-headed Gull - 70+ - field N of main track,SE of Deer Shed, tractor tilling soil ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - adult and 2 juvs, in field with Black headed gulls

Wentworth Park, E of Roman Ridge: Kestrel - 1 - male on telegraph pole ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Raven - 1

Middleton Moor: 320 - 96 ; House Martin - 50+ - pausing to feed over the lagoon before moving on SW ; Snipe - 4