Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 5 ; Goldcrest - 20+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 55-60 - near the Orgreave Lane entrance ; Stonechat - 2 - pair on SW side of hill ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - Adult feeding on small fish. ; Goldeneye - 1 - male ; Whooper Swan - 5 - SW at 16:05 ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1 - Still by eastern shore of main lake at dusk ; Whooper Swan - 5 - Flew south calling ; SLAVONIAN GREBE - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chaffinch - 2 ; Siskin - 4 ; Blackbird - 9 - party of 9 feeding together in Hawthorns ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Goldfinch - 30-35 - inc flock of c25 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, SW ; Herring Gull - 1 - SW ; Fieldfare - c20 - mixed flock; dropped into treetops briefly before continuing S ; Redwing - c10 - with Fieldfares ; Goosander - 1 - drake, S/SW @ 1157hrs ; Kestrel - 1 - male

R Don, Aldwarke: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon

R. Sheaf, Duchess Rd: Grey Heron - 1 - fishing, or hoping to, in turbulent water near small weir ; Mallard - 1 - male

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 18 ; Greylag Goose - 49 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mallard - 30 - c. ; Black-headed Gull - 360 - c. post roost - left to the E ; Goldcrest - 5

Roundwood Golf course: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Siskin - 1 - N ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Coal Tit - 2 - in conifers

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 8 - max on pylon overlooking ponds

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c80 - east at 09:35

Thorpe Hesley: Fieldfare - c40 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 40+

Thrybergh CP: Goldeneye - 1 - redhead ; Tufted Duck - 18 ; Raven - 2 - 2 over dam departed East

Totley Moor: PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 ; Red Grouse - 3+ - west of Brown Edge ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - Feeding in a large puddle on the main track at SK28232 79387 for 10 minutes until 16:23.

Totley Moss: Starling - 300+ - Moving South west over moorland

Woodhouse Washlands: Whooper Swan - 5 - Flew overhead heading in direction of Rother Valley, calling loudly at 16:10. ; Canada Goose - 80 - Large flock spread about on flood area ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 10+ - At least 10 in observer's garden

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 52 ; Mandarin - 53 ; Moorhen - 9 ; Coot - 5 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 - flying W over reservoirs

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - male in garden eyeing up privet berries.

Middleton Moor: Shoveler - 20 ; Shelduck - 1 ; 320 - 85 ; Lapwing - 22 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

Millhouses: Goldfinch - 13 - In the observer’s garden. Highest count since 2005.

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - over, hanging in stiff breeze @ 1050hrs

Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 2 - adults on jet ski lake ; Cormorant - 34 - sheltering in lee of island on main lake

Shillito Wood: Stock Dove - 88 - in sheltered area of field to E of Shillito

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 43 ; Pochard - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Nuthatch - 1

Totley Moor: PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - feeding between the puddles on Moss Road path at SK282793 ; PURPLE SANDPIPER - 1 - second photo

Wire Mill Dam: Kingfisher - 1

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Raven - 1 - heard calling distantly

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Redwing - 8 ; Fieldfare - 1+ - calling in fog ; Mute Swan - 1 - SW, then W ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Jay - 1 ; Moorhen - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; Wigeon - 2 - A pair, uncommon record for site. ; 320 - 1 - Male. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair, female entangled in fishing line, Swan Rescue aware ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Flew from side of path. ; Red-legged Partridge - 15 - On surrounding farmland. ; Redwing - 5 - Flew from willows. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Siskin - 3+ - Over sluice calling.