Sightings Archive

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0930hrs

Barlow Common: Stock Dove - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Centenary Riverside: Goldfinch - 8 - NW

Crookes Valley Park: Whooper Swan - 5 - party of adults S at 09:28 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Coot - 4

Green Moor: Pheasant - 25+ - Game release

Hollow Meadows: Barn Owl - 1

Kiveton Community Woodland: Crossbill - 3 - At least 3 on site first thing this morning

Moscar Flat: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over grassland

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 5 - down this morning ; Golden Plover - 45 - Flew east at 08:00 ; Fieldfare - 442 - Flew NE between 08:00 and 09:00 ; Chaffinch - 11 - Flew NW 08:00 to 09:09 ; Lesser Redpoll - 50 - C.50 between railway and river

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Redwing - 10 - 1 SW; 9 S ; Fieldfare - 26 - 19 W/SW; 7 SW ; Common Gull - 2 - adults, SW ; Siskin - 5 - S ; Jackdaw - 5 - SW ; Goldfinch - c75 - inc 33 SW/W ; Reed Bunting - 2 - W ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - 2 SW/W; 1 W ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 ; Cormorant - 1 - W

Porter Valley: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - with several blue tits foraging in garden

Ravenfield-Hooton Roberts: Grey Goose sp - 50-60 - presumed 'pinkies', SE @ 0940hrs (distant)

Rawmarsh; Ryecroft: Fieldfare - c250 - W in two flocks

Redmires Middle Res: 320 - 1 - 1 male on small section of water ; Mallard - 22 ; Starling - >30 - Flying round middle reservoir before landing on shoreline ; Lapwing - 50+ - Feeding and resting on shore ; Black-headed Gull - 24 - in water ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Flew over reservoir and landed in water near shore ; Greylag Goose - 34 - Flew into reservoir and landed. Fed on shoreline and in water before flying off and landed in field on Brown Hill Lane ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 3 - feeding in roadside conifers

Roundwood Golf course: Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - adult male, in spat with Kestrel ; Carrion Crow - 17+ - post-roost dispersal around dawn

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 2 - Briefly at feeders

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Cormorant - 12 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - calling circled prob left n ; Mute Swan - 7 - inc res pr +3j ; Greylag Goose - 6 ; Canada Goose - 135 - circa ; Gadwall - 3 - mmf ; Pochard - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 73 ; Goldeneye - 3 - r/h ; Water Rail - 2 ; Lapwing - 60 ; Black-headed Gull - 240 ; Skylark - 12 - inc.6down ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 8 - 02-Jun ; Fieldfare - 100+ - NW ; Blackbird - 20 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 16+ - in 3 flocks ; Rook - 2 - se ; House Sparrow - 10 - #NAME? ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Goldfinch - 30+ ; Greenfinch - 15 - inc party of 9 ; Bullfinch - 1

Thrybergh Tip/Bluebell Wood: Raven - 1 - soaring over 0845-0900hrs, harassed by smaller corvids; left NE

Weston Park: Mallard - 106 - not including the hybrids and abominations ; Coot - 3 ; Wigeon - 1 - female still present

Wortley: Grey Partridge - 8 - Feeding in stubble field

Wyming Brook: Kestrel - 1 - In field near Wyming Brook. Hunging. Male

Barlow Common: 319 - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Kestrel - 1

Firsby Res: 320 - 1+ - Calling from main Res at dawn. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Calling at dawn. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting in set aside in moonlight.

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 52 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 6 ; Black-headed Gull - 56 - 1 metal ringed ; Fieldfare - 36 - Over

Kimberworth: Collared Dove - 2 - Searching for food in the pebbles under garden seed feeder. Once regular visitors - now only occasionally. ; Coal Tit - 4 - A record 4 in the garden and on the seed feeder. Most seen at any one time previously was 2.

Kimberworth Park: Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting along Town Lane, nr Kimberworth Park pub.

Leash Fen: Pink-footed Goose - c80 - SE @ 11:30 ; Woodpigeon - 550+ - SW in one hour, 10:15 to 11:15