Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 19 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 75+ ; Lapwing - 130+ ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Wren - 6 - 3sing ; Dunnock - 14 - 12sing ; Robin - 28 - 15sing ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Fieldfare - 150+ - flew SE ; Blackbird - 18 ; Blue Tit - 15 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Chaffinch - 12 - 5sing ; Bullfinch - 20 - 2-2-2-2-and 12 at feed stat. ; Reed Bunting - 15 - inc 12 at feed stat. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - mf

Aldwarke Lane: Kestrel - 1 - on roof of Minteq

Aldwarke SF: Meadow Pipit - 1 - N ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - NE ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in mixed tit-flock ; Magpie - 8

Beacon Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Beauchief garden: 319 - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 - In garden conifers ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Feeding on pyracantha berries

Canklow Woods: Long-tailed Tit - 15 - flock of 15 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling

Cutthorpe: Waxwing - 7 - report of 7 late morning in gardens just past Common Lane

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Jay - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Skylark - 3 - inc 1 singing, over adjacent fields ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, hunting

Freebirch: Meadow Pipit - 40+ - party of 40+NW at 10:45 ; Fieldfare - 160+ - feeding in pasture NW of farm. ; Starling - 300+ - In pasture with Fieldfares. ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Rook - 80+ ; Yellowhammer - 4 - 3 singing

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - Over at 11:57 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Robin - 10+ - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Redwing - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - several parties ; Blue Tit - 5+ - several singing, 1 pair displayiing ; Great Tit - 3+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - calling ; Treecreeper - 2 - singing ; Magpie - 4+ ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Chaffinch - 5 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - male

Holmebrook Valley Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying up the river ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ - On lake ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - Female in flight at 13:31 ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 3 Males + 2 Females ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 - On raft ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Old Wheel millpond: Mallard - 52 ; Coot - 5 ; Moorhen - 6 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair

Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 50 - at dusk ; Goldeneye - 7 - 3m 4f

R Don, Aldwarke Bridge: Mute Swan - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Moorhen - 4 ; Coot - 6 ; Mute Swan - 2 - ad & 2cy (colour-ringed 773Y red) ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 23 ; 320 - 16 ; Mallard - 2prs ; Gadwall - 1 - drake ; Moorhen - 4

R Don, Thrybergh Banks; Thrybergh Bridge: Stock Dove - 3 - inc aerial display

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0650hrs

Redmires conduit: Song Thrush - 3 - in horse fields; also 1 mistle thrush ; Golden Plover - 50 ; 319 - 1 ; Snipe - 2 ; Curlew - 6