Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Goldcrest - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12+

Holbrook Marsh: Woodcock - 1

Loxley Valley: 319 - 1 - flying over ; Wren - 1 ; Mallard - c80 - on river and mill ponds ; Black-headed Gull - c60 - inc 3 mobbing a Moorhen ; Coot - 2 - on mill pond ; Jackdaw - c40 - flock that regularly hang about around farm buildings ; Robin - 5+ - 2 singing ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Woodpigeon - c30 - 2 singing ; Blackbird - 2 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Magpie - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 - wandering flock

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 42 ; Herring Gull - 81 ; Common Gull - 1 - adult. frist in the last 4 visits. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Skylark - 9 - 9 birds seen + 2 in full song ; Goosander - 32 - came into roost.

RVCP, Intermediate Pond: Smew - 1 - Redhead still with Tufted Ducks at 08:15

Barbrook Res: Raven - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5 ; Stonechat - 2 ; 324 - 20+ - Red Deer, including a stag with a natty bracken hat.

Glen Howe Park: Long-tailed Tit - 11 - feeding o fat blocks ; Blue Tit - 7 ; Great Tit - 7 ; Coal Tit - 10-Dec ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Robin - 3 ; Jay - 4 - feeding on fat rubbed onto tree bark ; Magpie - 2 - same as jay ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Jackdaw - 07-Oct ; Chaffinch - 2

Harthill Res: Little Egret - 1 ; Goosander - 6 - 4 males 2 redheads. ; Cormorant - 4

Hollin Bank c/p, Stanage Edge: Reed Bunting - 3 ; Nuthatch - 01-Feb ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 01-Feb ; Pheasant - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Female ; Goosander - 1

Longshaw: Brambling - 1 - under VC feeders ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 7

Lydgate, Holmesfield: Jay - 2 ; Fieldfare - 10+ ; Redwing - 10+ ; Nuthatch - 1

Meadowhall: Pink-footed Goose - c70 - Over Meadowhall, heading W making slow progress towards Shirecliffe 14:00-14:15

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 41 ; Herring Gull - 71

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5

Ringinglow, Smeltings Farm: Fieldfare - C100 ; Redwing - 2

Shirebrook Valley: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling from an Oak tree in Rainbow Meadows

Thrybergh CP: Pink-footed Goose - 100 - c100 NW at 15:35

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Raven - 1

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w on roof at Warren Street.

Broomhead Rushy wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - male in top of dead conifer female on fat feeder ; Robin - 4 ; Treecreeper - 2 - on fat feeders ; Blue Tit - 7 ; Great Tit - 3 ; Coal Tit - Oct-15 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Wren - 1 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Siskin - 06-Aug - in top of conifers very vocal ; Dipper - 2 - following stream up towards Wigtwistle and also on towards feeders I have not seen them in this area before

Cutthorpe: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Damflask Res: Mandarin - c30 ; Cormorant - 2

Green Moor: Blackcap - 1 - Female to mince pies again ; Blackcap - 1 - photo

Handsworth garden: Redwing - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 - On feeders, 2 pair.

Limb Valley: Fieldfare - c100 - Over fields in 3 flocks ; Mandarin - 5 - 4m, 1f on pond at bottom of Valley

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 24 ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Goosander - 4 - 1m, 3 redheads ; Little Grebe - 1

Low Bradfield: Greylag Goose - c180 - several flocks in flight landed in fields around Nether House farm 15:45.