Sightings Archive

Ulley CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mallard - 8 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - With Goldfinch flock.

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - Singing

Wentworth Park: Brambling - 1 - feeding by roadside with single Y & CH ; Yellowhammer - 2 - males, one singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Jay - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - feeding together ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - over ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - NW ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Linnet - 2prs ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - 1 flew N; 1 S ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - numerous - most numerous sp. throughout, lots of singing

Wentworth Park; Brookshank Wood: Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Moorhen - 4 ; Mallard - 19 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 2prs; 4m ; Coot - 9 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr ; Greylag Goose - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Lapwing - 1 - displaying to S ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr ; Common Gull - 10 - straight through N/NW together ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 3cy

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Moorhen - 10 ; Mallard - 32 ; Tufted Duck - 15 - 8m; 7f ; Coot - 12 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4prs - territorial & displaying ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing; 1 to N, 1 Dam Head ; Lapwing - 1 - displaying to N ; Mute Swan - 1 - unringed 2cy ; Canada Goose - 2prs ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing, to N ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Dam Head ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting male, Dam Head ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Jay - 1 - to N ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on fence-post, harassed by crows ; Song Thrush - 1

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Goldcrest - 1pr - male singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3prs ; Greylag Goose - 28 - + 2 'Canalags' ; Mallard - 20-30 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Temple Hill Plantn: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Wilcox*s Plantation: Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Wood Nook: Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling frequently

Dore Road: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing in the rain!

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 4 - 3m and 1 f around feeders

Grenoside: Redwing - 15 - in fields adjacent to Cremotorium ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Starling - 40

Handsworth: Kestrel - 1 - Over Asda 14.05

Howden Res: Brambling - C20 - At least 5 siniging males

Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; Shelduck - 2 ; 320 - 2 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Shelduck - 2 - ads ; Curlew - 44 - roosted ; Merlin - 1 - male hunting briefly at alba wagtail roost before heading off W ; 320 - 5 ; Magpie - 29 - roosted ; Pied Wagtail - 30 - c. roosted

Orgrave: Golden Plover - C120 - Flushed dog Walker from area south of ARC a 18.30

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 35 - 8 fem ; Wheatear - 1

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 14 - in fields ; Greylag Goose - 20 - c. in fields ; Mallard - 8 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Sanderling - 1 - ad in winter plumage on Top Res - first March record as far as I know

Redmires Top Res: Sanderling - 1 - first March record

Rivelin Dams: Cormorant - 1 ; Golden Plover - 130 - c. 130 over res before heading north to fields by Rivelin Rocks ; Moorhen - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2

Rivelin Rocks: Golden Plover - 130 - c130 over, late afternoon

Strines Res: Whooper Swan - 57+ - 57 or 58 at 14:45 at least and quite vocal