Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 15 ; Shoveler - 1f ; Kestrel - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Rook - 9 - north ; Goldfinch - c60 ; Meadow Pipit - 10 ; Blackbird - 50+ - mainly in east and south paddocks

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 22 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Mute Swan - 12 - 6ad6jv ; Canada Goose - 34 - inc 30 in frem n ; Gadwall - 6 ; Wigeon - 4 ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Goldeneye - 1 - m ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 230+ - on dam ; Black-headed Gull - 150+ ; Common Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - 3 - inc.1past w ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - ad past nw ; Woodpigeon - 1000+ - inc 200+800+ ino/seed rape fields ; Kingfisher - 2 - singles

Thrybergh Tip: Cormorant - 28 - flocks of 10 & 18, SW @ 0805hrs ; Bullfinch - 9 - inc party of 6 ; Shoveler - 10 - 6m; 4f ; Mallard - 3 ; Mute Swan - 7 - 2 down; 5 (inc 2cy) SW ; Common Buzzard - 3 - 2 sat on pylons; 1 very pale bird flew W/NW ; Water Rail - 02-Mar - calling ; Moorhen - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 22 - over noisily to NE (probably included 15 seen earlier) ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed from dense cover ; Goldfinch - 9 - feeding in alders/birches

Tinsley Golf Course: 319 - 1 - Low over trees. 12.40

Tinsley Park: Great Black-backed Gull - 100+ - From 70 Acre hill. 100+ mixed Great Black backed, Herring Gulls + Juveniles airport field. 12.00 ; Kestrel - 1 - Flew over Europa link towards Orgreave 13.00..

Ulley CP: Pied Wagtail - 21 - In newly fenced field ; Fieldfare - 3

Upperthorpe: Waxwing - 80+ - Intreetops at bottom of Ponderosa at 15:30

Wadsley Church: Goldcrest - 1

Wadsley Common: Goldcrest - 2 - Rural Lane Car Park

Walkley garden: Redwing - 30+ - feeding mainly on Cotoneaster berries in local gardens

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 33 ; Jack Snipe - 6

Bramley: Carrion Crow - 1 - Chasing Black Headed Gull on Flanderwell Avenue. ; Magpie - 1 - Taking bread from lawn.

Crosspool: Waxwing - 12 - On Manchester Road at 11:30 ; Waxwing - 80 - c. on Manchester Road mid-afternoon

Edge Mount: Brambling - 50+ - In the bushes opposite the farm

Firsby Res: 319 - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Fieldfare - 2 - Feeding under apple tree in cottage garden

Lowfield: Waxwing - 300 - 300 in rowans near Haggler's Corner, Queens Road. ; Waxwing - c.340 - final count for record ; Redwing - 82

Malin Bridge: Waxwing - 6 - flew over N

Manor: Waxwing - 38 - on Windy House Lane 15:20-15:40

Millhouses: Waxwing - 13

Millhouses Park: Kingfisher - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 62 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Herring Gull - 216 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - C600 - All big gulls left to the north west are at 16.20 ; Goosander - 14

Ravenfield Ponds: Mallard - 8 ; Coot - 3 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Goldfinch - 10+ - With Bullfinches. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - In ploughed field. ; Goldcrest - 1

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 22 ; Greylag Goose - 12

Redmires Top Res: Waxwing - 28 - Single party W to roost ; Goldcrest - 7 - In plantation ; Coal Tit - 4 - In plantation ; Nuthatch - 1 - In conifers by blue bridge ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ - In plantation

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 11 ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Gadwall - 7 ; Coot - c25 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, on lagoon ; Common Gull - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - west ; Moorhen - 3 ; 319 - 1 - mobbed by Jays in paddocks towards Woodlaithes end of pit top