Sightings Archive

Silver Wood: Starling - 20+ - Down on fields behind test centre. ; Fieldfare - 5+ - with Starlings.

Stannington garden: Goldcrest - 1 - Very active searching for food among branches of my part grown Xmas tree. First here for 15 years ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 - juv ; Blue Tit - 4 - Very active in mixed flock ; Goldfinch - 12 - Daily visitors ; Great Tit - 2

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 50 ; Scaup - 1 - Male East Bay ; Pochard - 8 ; Gadwall - 20 ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 ; Lapwing - 280+ ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Golden Plover - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - Female pond field ; Kingfisher - 1F ; Long-tailed Tit - 16 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Scaup - 1 - Single male still present ; Scaup - 1 - second picture

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 2 - calling while in flight over Wharncliffe Crags ; Kestrel - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed

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

Blue Man*s Bower: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair at back of marsh ; Reed Bunting - 1

Brightside: Ring-necked Parakeet - 60+ - roosting ; Ring-necked Parakeet - c110 - estimate, roosting late dusk

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 120 - at least ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Magpie - 3

Catcliffe Flash: Gadwall - 28 ; 320 - 40 - c. ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 12

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Common Gull - 1 - adult, W/SW

Crystal Peaks: Mistle Thrush - 1 - in full song, adjacent Marks & Spencers

Damflask Res: Dipper - 1

Harthill Res: Grey Plover - 5 - still present at dusk ; Cormorant - 6 ; Mallard - c.105 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - by SW lake

Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 20 ; Herring Gull - 1 - Adult of nominate race argentatus; present 15.20-15.30 ; Goosander - 3 - Drake and two redheads; stayed approximately 10 minutes before leaving SE ; Starling - 25000-30000 - Roosting, mainly No 3 lagoon

Moss Valley, lower: Tawny Owl - 1 - heard near Seldom Seen ; Jay - 1 ; 319 - 1 - near Ford

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Magpie - 10+ - on set-aside ; Jackdaw - 50-60 - flock, on set-aside ; Yellowhammer - 26 - on set-aside ; Fieldfare - 1 - all recent thrush flocks cleared out ; Reed Bunting - 4 - on set-aside ; Grey Partridge - 4 - on set-aside ; Skylark - 11 - on set-aside

Orgreave Lakes: Mute Swan - 2 ; Pochard - 108 ; Tufted Duck - 28 ; Goosander - 5 - 2 + 3 N ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Coot - 60 - c. ; Lapwing - 70 - c. ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Skylark - 8 ; Linnet - 7 ; Stonechat - 5 ; Herring Gull - 40 - c. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 20 - c. ; Gadwall - 8 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 24 - flew high to SE at 09:24 hrs ; Kestrel - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 ; Goosander - 27 - At Dusk. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 77 - 76 Adults and just 1 1st Winter. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 ; Herring Gull - 259 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult. ; Common Gull - 1 - Adult ; Black-headed Gull - c800

Parkgate; fields to W: Black-headed Gull - c50 - flock, in young cereal crop

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Sparrowhawk - 1 - imm male

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Sparrowhawk - 01-Feb - one flew S; same or another overhead a few minutes later

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blue Tit - 1pr - investigating nestbox

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - over

Redmires Top Res: Goldeneye - 1 - superb male feeding near road