Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Nuthatch - 1 - feeding station ; Chaffinch - 30+ ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 14 ; Siskin - 8 ; 319 - 1 ; Common Scoter - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 20+ ; Carrion Crow - 30+

Woodhouse Washlands: Jack Snipe - 9 ; Snipe - 45 ; Peregrine - 1 - made a pass at a flushed snipe

Burngreave Cemetery: Redwing - 12

Canklow: Kestrel - 1 - over Centenary Way, p.m.

Firsby Res: 319 - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 - Squealing in reeds small res ; Blue Tit - 8+ ; Great Tit - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Goldcrest - 4+ - Mixed flock of Tits and G,crest in Willows ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Siskin - 12 ; Lesser Redpoll - c10 ; Goldfinch - c20 - Mixed flock in Alders. ; Moorhen - 3 ; Coot - 2 ; Skylark - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2

Green Moor: Waxwing - 9 - photo ; Waxwing - 9 - photo ; Waxwing - 9 - photo

Low Common, Scholes: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - close to crop of sun flowers adjacent to Rockingham Wood at 10:20 moved off only to reappear at Upper Common at 11:15, last seen behind Shepherd's Plantation

Meersbrook Park: 319 - 1

Middle Common, Scholes: Short-eared Owl - 1 - up from dense area of long grass, down again at S end of field, near boundary with Upper Common at 10:45 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10+ ; Magpie - 11 - (parliament)in tree within defunct hedge ; Linnet - 6+

Orgreave Lakes: GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - video grab ; GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - Found by the "Mystery Man" Mid-morning. ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 ; GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 ; GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 - juv main lake mid-morning ; Stonechat - Pair - In reeds by water edge at northern end near bridge ; Raven - 2 - over estate and main lake pm

Pit-house West: Woodcock - 1 - flushed from scrub ; Water Rail - 3 - calling at dusk ; Jay - 5 - together in tree

Redmires Bottom Res: Barn Owl - 1

RVCP: Shoveler - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 28 - a party flew east @15-03

Unthank: Nuthatch - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 10+ - up from stubble

Wadsley: Red Kite - 1 - High, drifting north, unperturbed by carrion crow's attentions.

Ash Cabin Flat: Pheasant - 20 - feeding in fields W of Wyming Brook

Crookes: Waxwing - 15+ - Up to 15 in trees around Alexander Court Care Home and 5 visiting small rowans at St Thomas Church ; Waxwing - 15 - mobile around Crookes 09:50-10:15, often visiting St Thomas's Church. ; Starling - 40 - St Thomas's church

Crosspool: Waxwing - 26 - On A57 @08:40 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Waxwing - 30 ; Waxwing - 30 - 2nd pic ; Waxwing - 40 - At least 40 briefly at 15:00, spooked by Sparrowhawk, 20 returned shortly after.

Crowhole: 319 - 2 ; Redwing - 3+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 37 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+

Green Moor: Waxwing - 9

Low Common, Scholes: Black-headed Gull - 50+ - roving over stubble part of field

Middle Common, Scholes: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - in long grass (cover crop) with Herons near by, moved onto Low Common (stubble),SK396960, when disturbed, 09:45 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ ; Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - male in hawthorn ; Linnet - 10+

Middleton Moor: 320 - 65 ; Shoveler - 15 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Common Gull - 14 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 600 ; Shelduck - 1

Morley Pond: Mallard - 70+ ; Lapwing - 60+ - numbers building in W end (brown) field ; Cormorant - 1 - circling ; Robin - 1 - singing