Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Bullfinch - 5 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Brambling - 2 - Over calling. ; Siskin - 5 - 2 & 3, ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Willow Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 - Near entrance gate. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Jackdaw - 5 - Over. ; Carrion Crow - 6+ ; Jay - 2 - In willows. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On telegraph pole near cottage. ; Redwing - 30+ - All round site. ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 8+ ; Pheasant - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 3

Forge Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying upstream just above the pond at 9:30

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 6 - at dusk near to Charles Ashmore Road car park

Holmebrook Valley Park: Water Rail - 1 - On east side of lake - very camera shy

Linacre Res: Little Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 16 ; Coot - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 26 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Mallard - 69 ; Mandarin - 2 ; Redwing - 17 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Starling - 30

Middleton Moor: Fieldfare - 21 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Wigeon - 1 ; 320 - 1 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Glaucous Gull - 1 - dropped in from the south again at c14:30 ; Glaucous Gull - 1 - in to roost at 16:25. Apologies for the record shot! ; Yellow-legged Gull - 7+ - at least 7 adult types ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c1200 - roosted ; Shoveler - 4 ; 320 - 4 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Common Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - c10 ; Raven - 2 ; Starling - c150 - at dusk ; Goosander - 5 - at dusk, 4m 1f

Midhope: Pink-footed Goose - 270 - two flocks over the moors - 150NW @ 11:45 & 120NE @ 12:15

Orgreave Lakes: Scaup - 1 - Female still on Big Lake. ; Skylark - 55 - flock flew towards Treeton at dusk before most/all returned to Plains 20 minutes later

Pebley Pond: Mute Swan - 24 ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Coot - c32 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Mallard - 10

Rawmarsh:New Stubbin: Cormorant - 2 - S @ 07.50 @ 1 N @ 09.00 ; Greylag Goose - 38 - N @ 08.24 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - S ; Woodpigeon - 850 - S in 2 hrs ; Skylark - 47 ; Pied Wagtail - 32 ; Redwing - 3 - SW ; Fieldfare - 90 - SW ; Starling - c2250 - W in 2 hrs ; Goldfinch - 35 ; Chaffinch - 10 - SW ; Brambling - 2 - SW ; Bullfinch - 2 - SW

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 02-Mar ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Coal Tit - 01-Feb ; Reed Bunting - 1

Thrybergh CP: Hawfinch - 1 - In treetops then probably w ; Water Rail - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - M

Barlow Brook: Kingfisher - 1 ; Nuthatch - 01-Feb ; Siskin - 12+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Treecreeper - 1

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 2 - Female on lower pond ; Kingfisher - 2 - Male on upper pond ; Black-headed Gull - 56 - 54 on lower pond, 2 on upper pond