Sightings Archive

Longshaw: Fieldfare - 12

Millhouses Park: Pink-footed Goose - 87 - NW ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - One singing

Redmires Res: Pink-footed Goose - 40 - c. flew low to the W at 08:20 hrs

Rivelin Valley: Pink-footed Goose - C80 - Flying north west

Shirebrook Valley: Pink-footed Goose - Approx 150 - Heading west.

Silverwood Lagoon: Jack Snipe - 1 - went up from edge of southern reedbed at 09.00

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 38 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Gadwall - 2p ; Pochard - 2 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - C300 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Herring Gull - 5 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Blackcap - 1 - fem ; Goldcrest - 2

Tyzack*s Dam: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - My first here in 40 years ; Goosander - 5

Wortley: Redwing - 35 - 16NE, 19S ; Woodpigeon - c1100 - South 7.15 - 8am ; Starling - c550 - South ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - south ; Fieldfare - 15 - 10W, 5S ; Stock Dove - 2 - south ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Firsby Res: Mallard - 5 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Pair low over site calling. Possible this years Juv with parent. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting in set aside field. ; Jay - 2 ; Treecreeper - I - Calling. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Siskin - 15+ - Numbers building. ; Fieldfare - 9 - Flock landed in treetops over dam wall.

Handsworth garden: Woodcock - 1 - Flew over garden at dusk.

Keppels Field: 319 - 1 - circling @ 10:55 ; Starling - 7 - @ Column

Kilnhurst Ings: Snipe - 9 - Ings surprisingly dry ; Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 - over ; Redwing - c35 - 24 SW/S in 2 flocks + c20 dropped in ; Cormorant - 1 - S ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - E @ 0830hrs ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Herring Gull - 9 - N ; Song Thrush - 1 - S, high & calling

Kilnhurst Riverside: Long-tailed Tit - 30+ - flocks of 15-20 & 10+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Herring Gull - 13 - NW ; Moorhen - 1 - river ; Redwing - 13 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - in riverside willows

Orgreave Lakes: Kingfisher - 1 - Flying upriver ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Flew off from telegraph pole ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling, probably from Treeton side of river ; Lapwing - 16+ ; Cormorant - 3

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 26 ; Mallard - c40 ; Herring Gull - 16 ; Black-headed Gull - c30

Sothall: Redwing - 6 - nocmig recorded overnight 7/8th ; Robin - 1 - nocmig recorded overnight 7/8th ; Blackbird - 2 - nocmig recorded overnight 7/8th ; Blackbird - 2 - nocmig recorded overnight 7/8th ; Golden Plover - 2 - nocmig recorded overnight 7/8th

Swinton; Talbot Road: Goldcrest - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2+ - feeding in alders

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 44 ; Whooper Swan - 3 - 3 adults landed 0830 left South 0838 ; Tufted Duck - 34 ; Pochard - 5 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Goldeneye - 1 - redhead ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Goldfinch - 25 ; Linnet - 6 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; 319 - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - fem ; Grey Heron - 1

Treeton Dyke: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Redwing - 1

Woodhouse Washlands: Kestrel - 1