Sightings Archive

Bowden Housteads Wood: Woodpigeon - 20+ - including a pair copulating

Brownhills Lane: Oystercatcher - 7 - Landed in field 200 yards east of Soughley Cottage. ; Curlew - 14 - Flying east and calling

Catcliffe: Kestrel - 1 - Male harassed by Magpie in trees off Orgreave Rd

Cinder Bridge Field: Fieldfare - 5 ; Lapwing - 1 - over ; Goldfinch - 9 - flock

Green Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Raven - 2 ; Greenfinch - 4

Halfway: Woodcock - 3

Handsworth: Whooper Swan - 67 - North at 10:15 ; Whooper Swan - 22 - NW over Handsworth before returning to Orgreave/

Handsworth garden: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Feeding on path, first one on garden for years

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 2 - 1m & 1f ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Blackbird - 4 - 3m & 1f ; Chaffinch - 1 - f ; Song Thrush - 3 - feeding on ivy berries. Max ever seen here ; Goldfinch - 6

Holbrook Marsh: Snipe - 1

Killamarsh: 320 - 15 - near ox-bow pool ; Chaffinch - 20+ - in mixed flock ; Reed Bunting - 10+ - in mixed flock ; Yellowhammer - 1 - in mixed flock ; Linnet - 200+ - majority species in mixed passerine flock in field adjacent to R Rother ; Brambling - 2+ - in mixed flock ; Brambling - 2+ - photo of female

Malin Bridge: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male sitting out snow in garden tree

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Greenfinch - 1 - singing

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Song Thrush - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over ; Reed Bunting - 16 - on frozen set-aside ; Yellowhammer - 5 ; Skylark - 4 ; Magpie - 12 ; Jackdaw - c20 - flock ; Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting

New Stubbin; Roman ridge: Fieldfare - c70 - feeding in unfrozen field-edge ; Redwing - 5 - with Fieldfares

Onesmoor: Skylark - 48 - single flock disturbed from northern end where snow wasn't as deep..

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 22 - 17 ads, 5 juvs. Present all afternoon, left to NW at 17:10, but returned 10 minutes later. ; Ringed Plover - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goldeneye - 2 - pair ; Kingfisher - 1 - main lake ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Meadow Pipit - c30

Parkgate; France Street: Kestrel - 1 - low over, heading S

Ranmoor: Snipe - 1 - Flew north over garden at 09:30

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Long-tailed Tit - 3

Rawmarsh; High Street: Mistle Thrush - 2 - over

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Goldfinch - 10+ - on burdock heads ; Fieldfare - 2 - on unfrozen field-edge ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in blazing sunshine @ 1155hrs

Rivelin Filters: Red Kite - 1 - flew south just west of Rivelin Valley Rd junction with Manchester Rd

Silverwood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Coal Tit - 10+ - Including 3 in a tussle on ground in the snow.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 23 ; Whooper Swan - 7 - Still present at 11:20 ; Tufted Duck - 60 ; Pochard - 2 ; Gadwall - 10 ; 320 - 1 ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Lapwing - 20 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed early morning ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Fieldfare - 40+ ; Redwing - 80+ - Good numbers around pond field feeding station ; Dunnock - 14 - Very good numbers at stream feeders ; Robin - 12 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Chaffinch - 25 ; Brambling - 1 - a female showing well with other finches at stream feeding station ; Goldfinch - 15+ ; Linnet - 20 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; 319 - 3+ - One very pale bird

Wadsley Common garden: Pied Wagtail - 1 - First record here since 2014. ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - record count.

Wentworth Park: Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring together over E edge

Canklow Woods: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at 19:30

Ecclesfield: Collared Dove - 2 - Cross Hill, male displaying to mate during snow.

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pairs.