Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 18 - In to roost at dusk ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 71 - pre roost ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 32 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - c300 ; Linnet - c40

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Sparrowhawk - 1 - N/NW ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - c80 - W/NW @ 1030hrs (tracked from Ravenfield area) ; Pink-footed Goose - c140 - E @ 1019hrs

Parkgate; Glossop Lodge - Scrooby Lane: Goldcrest - 1 - calling from garden conifers ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 ; Pink-footed Goose - c90 - SW @ 0943hrs

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 70 - About 70 spooked by kestrel ; Lapwing - 50 - Also spoked by the kestrel

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 37 - on playing field ; Magpie - 10 - on playing field ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - both 2cy, on playing field

Redmires conduit: Pink-footed Goose - 110 - Flying East above the A57

Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - Flew NE ; Canada Goose - 1 - in fields ; Greylag Goose - 40 - 4 flew low to SW + 36 in fields ; Pink-footed Goose - 822 - c. in 12 skeins - 420 E/SE with 390 W and 12 N ; Mallard - 80 - c. ; 320 - 11 ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Red Kite - 1 - arrived from N and flew SW towards Stanedge Pole ; Kestrel - 3 ; Lapwing - 50 - c. ; Golden Plover - 39 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - c. ; Starling - 60 - in fields ; Blackbird - 7 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - flew SW ; Siskin - 22 - flew SW ; Greenfinch - 30 - c. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Jackdaw - 107 - flew W in 2 hrs ; Jay - 6 - flew W ; Robin - 6 ; Goldfinch - 26 - flew SW ; Raven - 2 - flew NW ; Goldcrest - 53 - c. ; Skylark - 16 - flew SW ; Woodpigeon - 300 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Stock Dove - 2 - singles SW ; Goosander - 1 - redhead on Bottom Res

Rotherham: Kingfisher - 1 - Canal between Iccles and Holmes lock 07.30 ; Mute Swan - 2

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 7 - on pylon overlooking ponds

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c.980 - mostly SSW or south 07.55 - 10.40 in skeins of about 200-110-50-50-100-30-30-110-250-50. Silver wood seems to be on the main flyway this autumn! ; Wigeon - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Strawberry Lea: Ring Ouzel - 2 - Left plantation heading west

Ughill Moors: Red Kite - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 150 - Skein moving north west early am

Wentworth Park: Kestrel - 2 - males, disturbed from top of hawthorn hedge by dog walker ; Skylark - 7+ - mobile, feeding at times across fields N of Morley and Dog Kennel Ponds ; Common Buzzard - 2 - on fields S of Greasbrough Dam, harassed by crows

Woodhouse Tip: Pink-footed Goose - 200+ - Flew east at 09.00 ; Stock Dove - 22 - 1 feeding flock.

Aldwarke: Kestrel - 1 - male, over Aldwarke Lane

Arbourthorne: Mandarin - 1 - drake still on pond with mallards ; Mallard - 22 ; Moorhen - 4

Bamford Edge: Wheatear - 1

Birley Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 100-120 - 3 separate skeins west ar 16:10

Blacka Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - 200 - Flying NW towards Higgar Tor at 10:15 ; Pink-footed Goose - c30 - Flying NE towards Lady Canning's at 11:06 ; Pink-footed Goose - 150 - 180 - flying S towards Big Moor ar 11:45 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - c10 - feeding on rowan berries ; Wren - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; 324 - 5+ - Two roaring male Red Deer plus a few females.

Blackamoor: Goldfinch - 11 - Feeding on Rowan in fog

Derwent Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 200 - moving over edges to the East at 11:45 heading SE. just below low cloud base

Ecclesall: Pink-footed Goose - 150 - SE at 13:55

Firsby Res: Curlew - 1 - Over West calling , ; Cormorant - 1 - Dropped onto big pond. ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - c20 - On stubble field. ; Skylark - 5 ; Goldcrest - 7

Hangingwater garden: Coal Tit - 3 - first for months

High Green: Pink-footed Goose - c100 - North 10.11am

Hillsborough Park: Pink-footed Goose - c50 - flew west