Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: 320 - 52 ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Coot - 3 ; 321 - 1 ; Stonechat - 1

Orgreave: Stonechat - 5

R Rother, M1 flyover: Dipper - 2

Ramsley Moor: Fieldfare - 60 ; Stonechat - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - c.150 - 40 WSW at 08.35, 110 WSW at 08.55 ; Dunlin - 1 - on northern shoreline at 08.10 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - called once in The Close

Thorpe Hesley: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - c120 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 27 ; Whooper Swan - 7 - 3 ads down on res early morning, departed west at 08:55; 4 (2ad+2juv) flew SE at 09:25 ; Canada Goose - c150 ; Pink-footed Goose - 215 - Total moving SW ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 8+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Skylark - 10 ; Chaffinch - 10+ ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldfinch - 40 + ; Greenfinch - 12 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 7 total ; Whooper Swan - 7 total - Another photo

Wortley: Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 ; Skylark - 1 - South ; Redwing - 6 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling 17.30 ; 319 - 02-Mar ; Greenfinch - 1

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - lower lake at 07:25

Orgreave Lakes: Finch sp - c200 - over tip, presumably mainly Goldfinch.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 22 ; Canada Goose - 150+ ; Pink-footed Goose - 140 w ; Grey Heron - 1 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Bird flew in from NW flew over main bay departed SE 08:45 -08:48 ; Lapwing - C60 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 46 ; Jackdaw - 20 ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Siskin - 10+ - Birds in birch south paddock ; Goldfinch - 80+ - Two big mixed flocks in park and at feeding station ; Linnet - 20+ ; Reed Bunting - 2

Wortley: Redwing - 132 - SW/W 07:00-08:00 ; Jackdaw - c518 - SW/W post roost dispersal ; Buzzard sp - 01-Feb ; Kestrel - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c180 - SW/W ; Yellowhammer - 8 - 4+3 west, 1 undecided ; Goldfinch - 23 - SW ; Starling - 1 - SW ; Meadow Pipit - 6 - South ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - SW ; Chaffinch - 20 - SW/W ; Red Kite - 1 - Feeding over fields towards Howbrook mobbed by crows. ; Herring Gull - 4

Bassingthorpe Farm: 319 - 1 - moving between pylons, attracting attention of 2 Kestrels and a Carrion Crow

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 - in the air together at 14:30 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Green Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 10+ - Feeding in Silver Birch

Holmebrook Valley Park: Grey Heron - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2

Kimberworth Park: Rook - 20 - at Roughwood Rec along with 1+ Carrion Crow

Newbold, Chesterfield: 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Swallow - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Rock Pipit - 1 - On rocks on North shore at 17:00

Oughtibridge garden: Redwing - 9 - Feeding on Rowan berries

Owler Bar: Fieldfare - 60 - flock moving south. ; Redwing - 75 - In mixed flock with Fieldfares heading south ; Crossbill - 45 - noisy flock flying SE with Greenfinches ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Calling in bracken on slopes of moor above Owler Bar

Silverwood Lagoon: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing at regular intervals this morning ; Water Rail - 1 - calling in southern reedbed ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over