Sightings Archive

Manor Fields Park: Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Wren - 4+

Meersbrook Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Mexborough: Pink-footed Goose - 70 - c70 flew NW over Church St at 09:20

Millhouses. Sheaf Valley Walk: Redwing - 25+ - 25+ feeding on ivy berries along with 4 Blackbirds. one Song Thrush and 10 Wood Pigeons ; Redwing - 25+ - Another picture ; Goldcrest - 1

Morley Pond: Grey Heron - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Gadwall - 2 - 1 pair with Mallards ; Mallard - 40+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Coot - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 45 ; Wren - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Redwing - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Siskin - 6+ - Feeding on mature Alder along with several Goldfinch, @ W end of lake.

Norton Lees garden: Blackcap - 1m - On fatball feeder

Onesmoor bottom: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over snow covered fields.

Orgreave Lakes: 328 - 1 - with small group of Pochard beside phragmites ; 328 - 1 - second photo

R Don, Stevenson Rd: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - nice first winter on frozen wasteground. Not a bird I've seen before I don't think, with plain muddy brown greater coverts.

Rawmarsh Manor Farm: Red Kite - 1 - came over from Hoober area heading E circling

Rivelin Filters: Canada Goose - 21 ; Great Tit - 2

Rivelin Res: Mallard - 9 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blackbird - 1

Rivelin Roughs: Wren - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - At wildlife pond ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 7 ; Jackdaw - 5 ; Blackbird - 3

Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 52 - Includes 30 on Rivelin Mill ; Mandarin - 4 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - Silver ring on right leg

Rother Valley CP: Tufted Duck - 12 ; Goldeneye - 2 - Male on Meadowgate Lake, female on River Rother ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Coot - 20+ - On Meadowgate and Wildlife lakes ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Gadwall - 10 - Meadowgate and fishing lakes ; Mallard - 30+ ; Wigeon - 10 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+ - Meadowgate and fishing Lakes ; Canada Goose - 30+ - On grass near Meadowgate Lake ; Redwing - 6

Thorpe Hesley: Magpie - 12 ; 319 - 3 ; Lapwing - 30

Thorpe Hesley garden: Magpie - 1 - brief visit ; Starling - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2 - regular ; Robin - 1 - regular ; Blackbird - 2 ; Dunnock - 1

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 58 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Pochard - 1 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Mute Swan - 55 ; Robin - 14

Unthank: Redwing - 8+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - all feeding in one pile of silage plus Blackbirds and Robin

Wentworth: Meadow Pipit - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Fieldfare - 160+ - in fields with redwing ; Redwing - 140+ - in fields with Fieldfare

Wentworth Park: Goose sp - 70+ - NW @ 09:35.

White Edge: Stonechat - 1

Barlow: Kestrel - 2 - both males ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 100 plus - flighty flock of 100 plus

Dore garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Bullfinch - 4 - eating buds of flowering cherry tree ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Magpie - 1 - carrying nesting material ; Black-headed Gull - 3 - flying over