Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Pochard - 8 ; Herring Gull - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Blue Tit - c12 ; Great Tit - 8 ; Starling - c25 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Wren - 3 ; Goldfinch - 22 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 23 ; Canada Goose - 100 - c100 on adjacent field

Upper Common, Scholes: Corvid - 60+ - mainly Rook with jackdaws and Carrion Crow ; Skylark - 1 ; Magpie - 13 - group feeding near scrub ; Linnet - 4

Woodseats: Pink-footed Goose - c150 - one skein heading east at 09:18

Aldwarke SF: Great Black-backed Gull - 14 - parties of 4 & 10, all SW ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - in full song

Broomhead Res: 320 - 2 - singles flew W through gull roost ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 3100 - roosted in very windy conditions ; Common Gull - 42 - roosted with BHGs ; Herring Gull - 12 - roosted with BHGs ; Waxwing - 35 - c. flew W to roost at 1515hrs

Catcliffe Flash: Cormorant - 1 ; Gadwall - 15 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Pochard - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 20 ; 320 - 6 ; Shoveler - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 3

Cemetery Avenue: Waxwing - 15+ - Very flighty but it was windy

Graves Park: 322 - 1 - Alexandrine Parakeet - one amongst usual Ring-necks ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Goosander - 4 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 10+

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 9

Greenhill: Waxwing - 5 - In tree tops at junction of Greenhill Avenue and Greenfield Road.

Hassop Station: Waxwing - 250 - still devouring berries; per DOS

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 2 - M&F ; Pochard - 35 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - M ; 320 - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Jay - 1 ; Kestrel - 2

Orgreave Lakes main lake only: GREAT NORTHERN DIVER - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Male ; Tufted Duck - 21 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Mallard - 24 ; Coot - 47 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Second winter ; Great Black-backed Gull - 24 - At 16.00 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Herring Gull - 168 ; Common Gull - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - C100

R Don, Aldwarke: Cormorant - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc one in full song ; Treecreeper - 1

R Don, Eastwood: Mute Swan - 1pr - colour-ringed 337 & 3Y03 (yellow) ; Mallard - c40 ; Kestrel - 1 - over ; Gadwall - 1pr ; 320 - 1+ - calling from cover ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - over from Aldwarke WWTW ; Stock Dove - 3 - over from Aldwarke WWTW ; Cormorant - 7 - one Eastwood Lock; 6 on gantry over river

Silver Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male near Test Centre. ; Jay - 2 - 1 mobbing Tawny. ; Goldfinch - 20+ - Flock with mixed in Blue, Great, and LT Tits on woodland edge: ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Nuthatch - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Gull - 2 - Squabbling over bread.

Walkley Bank: Waxwing - 9 - in ash tree near Fern Road

Westwood CP: Waxwing - 30+ - Feeding on Hawthorn berries next to the dam. Opposite side to the dam car park @ 11:00

Woodlaithes: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Feeding on berries near Co-op.

Canklow Woods: Raven - 1 - west at 12:30

Catcliffe Flash: Mallard - 29 ; Gadwall - 12 ; 320 - 19 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Pochard - 1

Cemetery Avenue: Waxwing - 130+ - at 14:00

Chapeltown: Waxwing - c80 - Ecclesfield Road opposite Cumberland Crescent, coming down to feed on roadside Rowan 14:45

Curbar Edge: Fieldfare - c28 ; Raven - 2