Sightings Archive

Midhope Res: Fieldfare - 6 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 20+ ; Pintail - 2 - pair

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 - One bird still coming to food early morning best ; Great Crested Grebe - 23 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Tufted Duck - C50 ; Pochard - 12 ; Gadwall - 9 ; Wigeon - 3 ; Shoveler - 8 - 3male 5 female ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Greenfinch - 18 ; Brambling - 4 - At feeding station as with Rail early morning best ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 m

Upper Midhope: Dunnock - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Pheasant - 5 ; Fieldfare - 14 ; Starling - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Redwing - 14 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; 319 - 1

Brightholmlee: Barn Owl - 1

Dore back garden: Blackcap - 1 - male at feeders, 2nd sighting recently.

Elsecar Res: Whooper Swan - 5 - flew N @ 09:37 ; Brambling - 1 - male ; Linnet - c300

Fulwood: Blackcap - 1 - Female again at feeders in observer's garden.

Gillfield Wood: Jay - 1

Green Moor: Brambling - 1 - Female ; Brambling - 1 - photo ; Tree Sparrow - 5 ; Blackbird - 6

Greystones: Goldcrest - 1 - Observer's garden

Holmesfield: Mistle Thrush - 2 - In field off Fanshaw Gate Lane ; 319 - 1 - Near Holmesfield Park Wood

Intake: Grey Heron - 1 - On roadside roof-top, Mansfield Road, unconcerned by traffic.

Kimberworth Park: Goldfinch - c30 - Feeding on Silver Birch @ Roughwood School adj Roughwood Road. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting from trees,bottom of Grey Hill behind Remount Road.

Malin Bridge: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - nocmig, skein over calling 01:47

Manor farm Rawmarsh: Red Kite - 1 - drifting E

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 5 - On the ice at N end of main lake. Left at 09.20 eventually flying N. ; Pink-footed Goose - 88 - N at 10.05 ; Wigeon - 67 ; 320 - 4 ; Gadwall - 12 ; Pochard - 87 ; Goldeneye - 5 ; Goosander - 1 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Lapwing - 54 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 120+ ; Herring Gull - 140+ ; Stonechat - 2 - Picking food items off the ice at N end of main lake. ; Fieldfare - 28 - Feeding on the grass W side of lake. ; Starling - 120+ ; Whooper Swan - 5 - 5 adults in at 08:45 left north at 09:10 ; Water Rail - 2 - on the river at dusk ; Water Pipit - 1 - small lake island, mid-afternoon ; Goosander - 15 - main lake at dusk ; Whooper Swan - 5 - Adults ; Wigeon - 61 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 139 - Max together at pre roost. ; Grey Partridge - 1 - Calling at dusk.

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 20 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Pink-footed Goose - 70 - West ; Greylag Goose - 192 ; Canada Goose - 44 ; Tufted Duck - C50 ; Pochard - 14 ; Gadwall - 12 ; Shoveler - 2m