Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Jay - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 11 ; Jackdaw - 4 - inc.1-3n ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Goldfinch - 100+ - inc 2flocks 40+ ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Siskin - 2 - past s ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Feral Pigeon - 120+

Upper Haugh: Starling - c100 - single flock

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over @ 1145hrs

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying over lower pond at 7:15

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; 320 - 4 - Flew from shallows. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Over. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling early morning. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jackdaw - 5 - Over at dawn. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Cottage garden hedge. ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - Over calling. ; Long-tailed Tit - 12

Kimberworth Park: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling bet Remount Road and Roughwood School @22:15

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Merlin - 1 - hunting over moors. ; Mistle Thrush - 6+ - feeding on grazed pastures. ; Snipe - 1 - flushed by sheep, then headed high to south

R Don, Effingham St: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult on weir ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult on weir

Ravenfield Church: Mistle Thrush - 1 - On spire. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - In sewage farm.

RVCP River Rother: Kingfisher - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Goosander - 4 - Females

RVCP, Main Lake: Herring Gull - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Little Egret - 1 ; Cormorant - 11 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 100+ ; Grey Heron - 8 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; 320 - 20+ ; Tufted Duck - 37 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Pochard - 4

Silverwood Lagoon: Siskin - 6+ - small flock in birches

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Mute Swan - 16 ; Greylag Goose - 21 ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 92 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - m ; Kestrel - 1 - m ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Skylark - 9 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Chaffinch - 11 ; Goldfinch - 80+ - inc.flock 60+ ; Feral Pigeon - 250+

Wentworth Estate: 319 - 9 - together over towards deer park 12.15, split up after a while. ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 ; Pheasant - 30 + - Many more heard calling.

Wentworth, Dog Kennel: Great Crested Grebe - 2

Wentworth, Morley Pond: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Male still in good colour. ; Nuthatch - 2 - Calling. ; Robin - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - 1 juvenile. ; Chaffinch - 06-Aug ; Great Tit - 1

Wingfield School: Corvid - 80+ - Mixed,majority Rook and Jackdaw

Agden: Stonechat - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 7

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Low over Barrett estate 17.55.

Broomhead/Ewden: 319 - 2 ; Linnet - 200+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 30

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1

Catcliffe: 319 - 1 - Sat on lamppost Parkway slip road near Europa Link 14.45

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Wigeon - 15 ; Gadwall - 80+ ; 320 - 5 ; Shoveler - 7+ ; Cormorant - 7 - 6 on flash + 1 south ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Moorhen - 10+ ; Coot - 80+