Sightings Archive

Sunday 12th March 2023

• Greasbrough Dam, Wentworth: Stock Dove - 2 - singing from parkland/woodland to N ; Little Owl - 2 - calling from mature trees in parkland to N ; Starling - c60 - flock, in parkland to N
• Handsworth: Herring Gull - 49 - part of the regular movement between town and Orgreave.
• Handsworth garden: Blackcap - 1 - male feeding on fat balls
• Hangingwater garden: Redwing - 1 - feeding on ivy berries ; Blackcap - 2 - m & f
• Holdworth: Fieldfare - 8+ - feeding on ground with Starlings ; Starling - 4 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Curlew - 1 - flying over, calling ; Herring Gull - 2 - flying over
• Killamarsh garden: Brambling - 1 - Female on feeders, first garden record ; Blackcap - 1 - Female ; Greenfinch - 4+ ; Goldfinch - 6
• Kimberworth Park: Goldfinch - 2 - pair collecting material from dead heads of Wind Anemones ; Greenfinch - 3 - feeding in tops of Silver Birch, at least 1 singing, from grounds of Roughwood School ; Dunnock - 1 - singing, Roughwood School ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing
• Kirk Edge: Lapwing - 6 - Displaying over Castle Bents ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Skylark - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - hover hunting ; 319 - 2 - a pair using updraft to hunt
• Loxley Valley: Kingfisher - 1 - flying downstream near Wraggs Bowling Club.
• Moss Valley, upper: Treecreeper - 1 - Dowy Lumb ; 319 - 1 - Long Wood ; Jay - 1 - heard Long Wood ; Nuthatch - 1
• Nether Haugh; Clay Hill: Lapwing - 1 - displaying ; Kestrel - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing from remains of game cover
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Chaffinch - 4 - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - over ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 2 singing
• New Stubbin; Roman ridge: Yellowhammer - 5 - flock ; Chaffinch - 1
• Norton Lees: Redwing - 3 - In trees by Warminster Road
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c40
• R Loxley, Stannington: Woodpigeon - 2 ; Robin - 6 ; Mallard - 2 - pair ; Wren - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 - probable pair ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - pair ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Jackdaw - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Blackbird - 1 ; Dunnock - 6
• Ravenfield Park: Canada Goose - 4 - Seem to have moved in. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting in fir tree. ; Pied Wagtail - 1
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Stock Dove - 5 - 1 singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - 1 singing ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - E
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 4 - 3 singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing
• Rivelin: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting in daylight over rough grassland north of Roscoe Bank
• Rocher Flat: Pink-footed Goose - 2 - still with Greylags ; Greylag Goose - c60
• Rockingham: Rook - 10+ - active around 8 nests on Wingfield Road
• Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 2 - long stay adult on main lake + 1 new adult on jet ski lake ; Stonechat - 5 - 3M, 2F feeding ; Wigeon - 34
• Roughwood Rec: Black-headed Gull - 50+
• RVCP: Brambling - 25 ; Egyptian Goose - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 400+ ; Cormorant - 29 ; Goosander - 12 ; Shoveler - 4 ; Goldeneye - 22
• Stocksbridge: Raven - 2 - a pair displaying over
• Storrs: Kestrel - 2 - male and female together on roadside telegraph pole
• Thrybergh: Yellowhammer - 1 - male
• Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1m ; Water Rail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Redwing - 80+ ; Fieldfare - 40+ - Good numbers around pond field ; 319 - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 6
• Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 1 - Female on feeders-first of winter here.
• Wisewood - Forge Mill Dam: Mallard - 8+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Robin - 2 ; Wren - 1