Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Black-headed Gull - 8 ; Mallard - c12 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - With prey. ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed near path.

Greno Wood: Pink-footed Goose - 600+ - Single large skien north east at 14:36

Holmebrook Valley Park: Tufted Duck - 2 - ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 : Black-headed Gull - 41 - Including one metal ringed ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Lockerbrook: 319 - 3 - circling together, much mewing

Middleton Moor: Glaucous Gull - 1 - Into roost at 16.10 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 6 - Adult types ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 650 - Roost much smaller than recently ; Shoveler - 11 - 4 drakes,7 females ; Goosander - 3 - 2 males, 1 female ; Whooper Swan - 3 - Adults. Arrived around 16.00, left 16.20 ; Starling - 300 ; 321 - 1

Millhouses garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1f

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c230 - high over east at 14:50

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 1 - Ad flew NW at 08:30 ; Whooper Swan - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Skylark - 3 - W ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Siskin - 1 - NE ; Redwing - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 2 - N ; Pink-footed Goose - 1125 - high to SE in 6 skeins between 14.58-16.02 ( 150,200,300,150,,175,150) ; Peregrine - 1 - ad fem S @ 15.14 ; Golden Plover - 17 - W @ 15.26 ; Herring Gull - 6 - N ; House Martin - 1 - very late bird S low over playing field @ 14.12

Redmires Bottom Res: Nuthatch - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - fishing then left E ; Greylag Goose - 30 - in field Soughley Lane ; Canada Goose - 23

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - c190 ; Lapwing - c120 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 313 - single skein SE at 08:45 ; Raven - 2 - W ; 319 - 1 ; Common Gull - 1 - adult with BHGs this morning

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting early morning ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Fieldfare - c.60 - two flocks south ; Siskin - 2 - south ; Brambling - 1 - south ; 319 - 2 ; Pochard - 1 ; Mute Swan - 5 - pair and 3 juvs ; Black-headed Gull - 120 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Jackdaw - 4 - east

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with Greylags

Thrybergh CP: Whooper Swan - 2

Thrybergh Tip: Cormorant - 17 - fishing in flash ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Shoveler - 13 ; 320 - 31 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - mobbed by C ; Gadwall - 12 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Little Egret - 1 - feeding in shallows ; Moorhen - 5 ; Snipe - 8+ - in Typha by water's edge ; Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Redwing - 9 ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Mallard - 34 ; Coot - 8 ; Jay - 1 ; Water Rail - 3+ - 'sharming' from reedbeds around flash ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - Oct-15 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1

Walkley Bank: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - skein flying south-east at dusk

Bingham Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Fishing on the pond (Endcliffe Park end).

Blackburn Meadows NR: Woodcock - 1 - Flying around at dawn.

Bowden Housteads Wood: Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Nuthatch - 7 ; Jay - 9 ; Mallard - 2 - Females on pond.

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling from small pond reed bed for approx 10 mins then seen briefly twice. ; Mallard - 15+ ; 320 - 9 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 3 - Resident bird calling Pre dawn answered by two others in distance. ; 319 - 1 - On telegraph pole. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Through sheep paddock.