Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Kestrel - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Wigeon - 7 ; Gadwall - 6+ ; Pochard - 4

Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 1

Dukes Road: Stonechat - 1 - male Flint Hill, 450m asl in freezing conditions. ; Stonechat - 2 - pair at start of track

Elsecar Res: Reed Bunting - 1 ; Brambling - 2 ; Linnet - c300

Fulwood Head: Fieldfare - 40 - in fields

Greystones garden: Redwing - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1

Kelham Island: Cormorant - 11 - 7 fishing together downstream, 4 flying over upstream

Norton Lees: Magpie - 15+ - In tree; Thorpe House Rise

Orgreave Lakes: Water Pipit - 1 - On east shore of big lake early morning, then flew towards breach in bank. ; Pochard - 80+ ; Goldeneye - 4 - M&F ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40+ ; Great Black-backed Gull - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Tufted Duck - 35+ ; Cormorant - 5 ; Goosander - 4 ; Goosander - 4 ; Goosander - 4 ; Wigeon - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; 320 - 8 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Lapwing - 22 ; Gadwall - 6+ ; Stonechat - 2 ; Water Pipit - 1 - Flew from east shore near small reedbed and landed on bank between both lakes. ; Goldeneye - 6

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c250 - asleep in field

Redmires Res: Raven - 2

Rivelin Valley: 319 - 1 - mewing over observers garden ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at 15:30 ; Kestrel - 1 - Over Coppice Farm ; Jackdaw - 12 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - In observers garden ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - In observers garden with Blue Tits , Great Tits and Coal tit ; Pheasant - 1 - escaped the pot ! ; Blackbird - 2 - In observers garden

Thrybergh CP: Goldeneye - 4 - 3 males 1 female. ; Shoveler - 1 - Male ; Pochard - 12 ; Tufted Duck - c50 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Redwing - 100+ ; Fieldfare - 100+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 10 - With Redwing and Fieldfare feeding in Hawthorns ; Greenfinch - 4 ; Chaffinch - 12

Waterthorpe: Magpie - 15 - In trees Mossway ; Magpie - 15

Brincliffe Edge: Bullfinch - 8 - 5 male, 3 female - highest garden count for several years

Brown Edge: 324 - 8

Dore: Brambling - 1 - male on garden feeders - first this winter

Firsby Res: Mallard - 10 - Main Res. ; 320 - 2 - Pair. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - In raging torrent on sluice. ; Black-headed Gull - 21 - Over 2 down on main Res. ; Moorhen - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Down worming on farmland. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Roosting. ; Snipe - 1 - Flushed from waters edge. ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Single Male. ; Linnet - 1 - Over calling. ; Goldfinch - 10+ - Down feeding. ; Siskin - 3+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+ - With Siskin. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Skylark - 1 ; Pheasant - 10 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 15 - Down together feeding on flooded field margin. ; Redwing - 30+ - Coming out of roost at Dawn. ; Fieldfare - 10+ ; Jackdaw - 24 - Flock over early morning. ; 324 - 3 - Roe Deer.

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 16 - On lake above cafe, my biggest count here.

Fulwood: Robin - 1 - extensive song in morning sunshine

Langsett Res: Herring Gull - 2 - ads roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 3700 - c. roosted ; Common Gull - 30 - c. roosted ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Crossbill - 2 - flew SW

Moorhall: Yellowhammer - 6