Sightings Archive

Fatty Boyns Ponds: 320 - 1 - f ; Kestrel - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing male ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - feeding together in adjacent field

Greystones garden: Siskin - 1 - female ; Bullfinch - 2 - Male & female ; Goldcrest - 1 - feeding on fat ball

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 3400 - in fog ; Common Gull - 58 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Mallard - c40 ; 320 - 4

Masbrough, Rotherham: Waxwing - 4 - at 12:15

Mount Darnall: Great Black-backed Gull - 21 - Roosting on steel works roof till 17.00 at least. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 278 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult washing off on old airport site then roosted on steel works roof. ; Bullfinch - 5 - feeding on buds with unusual dysyllabic call. ; 327 - 16 ; Jackdaw - C40 ; Carrion Crow - C30 ; Mallard - 5

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 2 - 1m,1f ; Skylark - 1 - Singing

Porter Valley: Dipper - 1 - On river close to Wire Mill cottages

R Don, Eastwood: Bullfinch - 8 - 5m; 3f in flock ; Mallard - 45 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 5 ; 320 - 6 ; Gadwall - 12 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Redwing - 2 ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Goosander - 19 - 8 ad m; 1imm m; 9f on river + 1 ad m flew downriver

R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Gadwall - 35 ; Shoveler - 8 ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Mallard - 16 ; Coot - 9 ; 320 - c50 ; Tufted Duck - c150 ; Moorhen - 1

Sheepbridge: Waxwing - 30 - by Sheepbridge Business Centre at 14:10, incl a colour-ringed individual.

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 1 - ; Little Owl - 1 ; Redwing - 38

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 19 ; Little Grebe - 4 - singles ; Cormorant - 6 ; Mute Swan - 10 ; Gadwall - 7 - 5m2f ; Wigeon - 2 - mf ; Pochard - 11 - 8m3f ; Scaup - 2 - imm m ; Tufted Duck - 136 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 140+ ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1st w ; Woodpigeon - 500 - #NAME? ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaff. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 20 ; Robin - 26 ; Blackbird - 21 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - prob 3 pr ; Bullfinch - 16 - 6-2-4-4mfff ; Reed Bunting - 4

Thrybergh Tip: Coal Tit - 1 - singing male ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing males ; Jay - 1 ; Herring Gull - 12 - SW ; Goldfinch - 8 - in alders ; Mute Swan - 4 - ads ; Water Rail - 2 - calling ; Mallard - 1pr ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 01-Feb - calling ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Woodcock - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - over from E

Treeton Dyke: Bullfinch - 1f ; Kestrel - 1 ; Goldeneye - 2 -1m,1f - Male displaying

Calver Sough: 319 - 2

Edge Mount: 319 - 2 - hunting together over rough pasture .