Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Little Grebe - 9 ; Cormorant - 14 - 1j ; Mute Swan - 14 ; Wigeon - 3 - 2m1f in then left s ; 320 - 1 - f/j ; Pochard - 16 - 15m1f ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - 450 - +inc 400+in field to e ; Golden Plover - 1 - with l/w left n ; Black-headed Gull - 120 - + inc 20s ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - prob 3w ; Woodpigeon - 90 - #NAME? ; Meadow Pipit - 12 - inc. 3s 9in fields ; Rock Pipit - 1 - in rocks by waterside on dam wall but keeping distant ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - singles 1 sing. ; Wren - 10 ; Dunnock - 19 ; Robin - 27 ; Redwing - 11 - inc.4w ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Blackbird - 22 ; Goldcrest - 4 - singles ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - flock ; Starling - 600+ - in with Lapwing

Totley Moss: Snipe - 2 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Red Grouse - 2

Tyzack*s Dam: Tufted Duck - 3

Whiston: 319 - 1 - Over Bawtry Road nr Whiston Meadows 16.10

Agden Side: Stonechat - 4

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 27 - all SW between 0740-0826hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - adult on regular chimney perch ; Cormorant - 19 - max on pylons by 0849hrs

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the airtogether 1130

Dungworth: Little Owl - 1 - on dry stone wall near Hill Top.

Endcliffe Park: Grey Heron - 1 - In trees by upper pond ; Black-headed Gull - 47

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; 320 - 3 - 2 M, 1 F ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 10 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 11 - On wires and down on farmland. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 15 ; Robin - 2 - Singing. ; Goldcrest - 1 - In cottage garden apple tree.

Hangingwater garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - "begging" calls for 10 mins at 23:00

Killamarsh: Pink-footed Goose - 250+ - Seen flying high NE overhead in 4 skeins 1840-1855hrs

Nether Haugh: Common Buzzard - 6 - max soaring together @ 1120hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring with BZs

New Stubbin colliery & tips: Song Thrush - 4 ; Goldcrest - 02-Mar ; Yellowhammer - 4 ; Redwing - 11 ; Meadow Pipit - 13 - inc 8 S ; Mistle Thrush - 7 ; Jay - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 7 - inc 3 S & 2 in full song ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - singles, both drifted W ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 - S ; Stock Dove - 2 - E ; Linnet - 3 - S ; Goldfinch - 18 ; Rook - 15-20 - feeding among horses in paddock

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Song Thrush - 4 - inc 2 S ; Redwing - 71 - all SW/W ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - SW ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Brambling - 2 - very low to SW, calling @ 0723hrs ; Herring Gull - 1 - SW ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - S/SW ; Woodpigeon - c150 - SW in parties 49 ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - inc 2 together; all drifted W ; Chaffinch - 7 - SW/S ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SW ; Goldfinch - 35 - SW ; Grey Heron - 1 - N @ 0800hrs ; Siskin - 4 - SW ; Skylark - 4 - S

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 5 - in garden briefly; left W

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 52 - Among rocks on S shore ; Dunlin - 1 - Still present associating with Ringed Plover ; Ringed Plover - 1 - Still present ; Black-headed Gull - 215 - In roost ; Common Gull - 2 - Adults in roost ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 29 - Pre-roost; most left SW before dusk, presumably to Middleton Moor ; Grey Heron - 1 - Steadily W ; Redwing - 46 - W to roost ; Starling - 2 - W