Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 90 ; Coot - 51 ; Water Pipit - 1 - showing well on island ; Black-headed Gull - c.600 ; Herring Gull - 750 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 342 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 22 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Goosander - 50

Pebley: Nuthatch - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 3 - at feeders with House Sparrows Carr Farm Cottage

Ravenfield Church: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Feeding on thawed ground. ; Redwing - 5 ; Fieldfare - 2

Rawmarsh: Raven - 1 - low to W, calling @ 0750hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - skein heard heading east at 11.00

Silverwood Pit: Bullfinch - 2 - Pair.old Railway Line ; Goldcrest - 1 - old Railway Line ; 319 - 1 - In trees near bridge at old Ravenfield.

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 18 ; Little Grebe - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 54 ; Pochard - 14 ; Gadwall - 15 ; Goldeneye - 1 - redhead ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Robin - 14 - One bird feeding from hand ; Wren - 9 ; Linnet - C40 ; Goldfinch - C20 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 ; Fieldfare - c40 ; Redwing - c100 ; Shoveler - 4m

Tinsley: Redwing - 09-Oct - On Tinsley roundabout , feeding on bush and ground. 11.40

Walkley: Pink-footed Goose - c 80 - Heading W over in 'V' 11.15. Honking over Bell Hagg Road at 20.00hrs.

Walkley garden: Wren - 1 - Foraging in undergrowth

Attercliffe: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - first winter again Warren Street ; Herring Gull - c70 - Warren Street, including colour ringed bird ringed 2010 as a chick at Hornoya, Vardo, arctic Norway and present here for it's fourth successive winter. ; Great Black-backed Gull - c50 - Warren Streen, including colour ringed bird ringed as a chick in Denmark in 2005 and present here 3 out of the last 4 winters. ; Black-headed Gull - c60 - inc blue colour ringed bird ; Peregrine - 1 - ad male on Bernard Rd incinerator building, sat feet from a line of unconcerned Feral Pigeons.

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 15 - 15 goosander roosted on Broomhead Reservoir ; Pink-footed Goose - 20+ - Skein heard flying West at 1645

Brownhills Lane: White-fronted Goose - 1 - First-winter still with Greylags finding grass in wet flushes ; White-fronted Goose - 1 - another photo ; Greylag Goose - 72 - high count here ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - feeding in wet flushes among snow ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - feeding in wet flushes among snow-covered fields ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Fieldfare - 20 ; Crossbill - 6 - over E towards conduit plantation

Forge Dam: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1

Green Moor: Fieldfare - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 5 ; Yellowhammer - 2

Hangingwater Garden: Blue Tit - 1 - prospecting nest box

Mayfield Valley: Corvid - c.50 - mostly Rook (30) and Jackdaw (15) plus a few Carrions, one with leucistic features (record shot)

Midhope Res: Pink-footed Goose - c35 - NW first picked up over Wortley at 1.15 then later to over Midhope ; Mallard - 4 ; Woodcock - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Great Grey Shrike - 1 - reported briefly in field North of Midhope Res

Midhopestones: Chaffinch - c30

Moss Valley, upper: Pied Wagtail - 1

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - 9 - Over eastwards ; Goosander - 9 - Over south ; Snipe - 2 - On island ; Lesser Redpoll - c20 - In mixed flock with Goldfinches in riverbank trees. ; Goldeneye - 4 - 2m 2f ; Water Pipit - 1 - again on small lake island mid-morning ; Water Pipit - 1 - On island on small lake in afternoon. ; Peregrine - 1 - 1 imm male ; Great Black-backed Gull - 31 - Gulls counted at 16.09 all bids had left by 16.30 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 ; Herring Gull - 141 ; Black-headed Gull - C200 ; Starling - c400 - Murmurating over Treeton dyke ; Pink-footed Goose - c400 - Not all flock on photo ; Skylark - 5 ; Grey Partridge - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 58 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Golden Plover - 5 - South ; Goldeneye - 5 - 3 drakes ; Pink-footed Goose - c.400 - Northwest

Oughtibridge: Blackcap - 1 male - Feeding on fat balls in garden

Redmires Middle Res: Lapwing - 36 - roosting on shoreline, getting disturbed by dog walkers ; Mallard - 40 ; Greylag Goose - 72 - on shoreline after getting flushed off Brownhills Lane