Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Herring Gull - 23 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - Adults ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 850 ; Black-headed Gull - 125 ; Goosander - 10 - 8 redheads, 2 drakes came in at 16.00

Orgreave Lakes: ARCTIC REDPOLL - 1 - Coues Arctic Redpoll in birches by railway bridge at 09:30. ; ARCTIC REDPOLL - 1 - Photo showing rump ; ARCTIC REDPOLL - 1 - Photo showing undertail coverts. ; COMMON (Mealy) REDPOLL - 2 - At least two among Lesser Redpoll flock ; Lesser Redpoll - c.50

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - c100 - inc 4 1cy ; Mallard - c60

Rotherham; Northfield: Herring Gull - c90 - loafing on rooftops & visiting recycling centre ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - over

Shillito Wood: Pheasant - 6 - 1m,5f ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Coal Tit - 4+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Brambling - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Shirebrook Valley: Willow Tit - 3+ - Including 2 retrapped by Sorby Breck, 1 with 'Marsh Tit' bill marking. ; Woodcock - 1 ; Fieldfare - 30+ - Moving around the valley

Stanage Plantation: Brambling - 500+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 11 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Canada Goose - 75 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Wigeon - 1 - m ; Pochard - 28 - 22m6f ; Tufted Duck - 57 ; Kestrel - 2 - singles ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 50 - + ; Black-headed Gull - 80 - + ; Herring Gull - 16 - inc.2s1sw12s 1jdown ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 26 ; Chaffinch - 11 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Siskin - 1 - past s ; Goldfinch - 50+ ; Greenfinch - 22 - inc 15 at feed stat. ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Tree Sparrow - 4 - tgether ; Goldeneye - 2 - r/h

Brinsworth: Blackbird - 1 - Male singing 04.30. Barrett estate nr rail lines.

Hathersage: 321 - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Heard

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 3 - 2 female + 1 juv ; Tufted Duck - 2 - 1 male + 1 female

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Pink-footed Goose - c300 - c180 north @ 10:45, c120 north @ 10:55 ; Brambling - 2 - over ; Crossbill - 4 - moving between Langsett and Midhope Reservoirs

Malin Bridge: Redwing - 10+ - Nocturnal migration, birds calling high over at regular intervals, seemed to be singles rather than flocks (BTO Tawny Owl Survey) ; Fieldfare - 1 - Nocturnal migration: calling bird. Not often heard after dark cf Redwing ; Blackbird - 3+ - Nocturnal migration: single moving birds calling high up

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 5

Orgreave Lakes: 320 - 78 - Notable arrival ; Wigeon - 30 ; Goosander - 5 ; Pintail - 3 - Drake and 2 females in at 15:50 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Drake ; Dunlin - 2 ; Snipe - 1 ; Little Gull - 1 - 1st winter briefly at 10:10 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3rd winter

R Derwent, Grindleford to Leadmill Bridge: Dipper - 6 ; Goosander - 1m ; 319 - 1 ; Mandarin - 9m, 4f

Shirebrook Valley: Pink-footed Goose - 130+ - NW at 10:30. Eight peeled off towards Orgreave. ; Willow Tit - 2 - At the feeding station by the visitors centre

Thornseat Delf: Crossbill - 70+ - moving as one group about woods. Watched pulling whole cones off trees. Vocal birds as ever ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Two birds calling to each other in daylight.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 11 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 - only res .family gone ; Gadwall - 4 ; Wigeon - 6 - circled ; 320 - 1 ; Pochard - 39 ; Tufted Duck - 63