Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Pochard - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Mute Swan - 6 - pair and 4 juvs. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 12 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c.60 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Fieldfare - c.25 ; Redwing - 4 ; Siskin - 2 ; Rook - 5 - west ; Jay - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.25 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Goldfinch - c.20 - two small flocks

Silverwood pit wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting high in Silver Birch. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male through low.

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Pochard - 14 ; Gadwall - 6 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Goosander - 1m ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with greylag flock ; Greylag Goose - C140 ; Canada Goose - C60 ; Mute Swan - 44 ; Sparrowhawk - 1m ; Linnet - C200 - in two flocks ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 14 ; Redwing - 38 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 22 ; Robin - 9

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - Female on feeders-first ever December record.

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Fieldfare - 20+

Blacka Plantation: Crossbill - 8

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 60 plus - flock of 60 plus

Elsecar Res: Cormorant - 6 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Mute Swan - 4 - Colour-ringed residents - Red 295Y, Red 678Y, Yellow 452 & Yellow 453

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - Feeding in cottage garden. ; 320 - 1 - Female ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 15 - On ploughed field. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Over. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - Males. ; Red-legged Partridge - 9 ; Tawny Owl - 2 ; Little Owl - 1 - On farm building. ; 319 - 1 - Flushing 50+ Wood Pigeon from farmland. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Skylark - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - On wires. ; Fieldfare - 5+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - heard ; Jay - 1

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 58 ; Coot - 9 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Black-headed Gull - 91 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - carrying metal ring

Malin Bridge: Wren - 1 - nocmig, singing 02:28

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 830 - c. roosted on Top Res

Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 1 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Pochard - 11 ; Gadwall - 5 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Brambling - 1

Agden Res: Greylag Goose - 85 - grazing in nearby fields

Aldwarke: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female on feeder, Liberty Steels 08.45 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Feeding on grass verges, Liberty Steels

Baslow Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 65 - Flying N-E

Canklow Woods: Bullfinch - 6 - flock of 6 ; Lesser Redpoll - c 60 - flock of c 60

Ecclesall Woods: Mistle Thrush - 2 - Playing fields above Wood ; Jay - 1

Elsecar Res: Cormorant - 3