Sightings Archive

Pit-house West: Willow Tit - c3 - birds in 3 different areas ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed, Bittern pool ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling quietly ; Water Rail - 3 - 2 Bittern Pool, 1 Chinese Bridge ; Jackdaw - 800+ - large noisy flocks at dusk ; Reed Bunting - c6 dropping in to roost

Poolsbrook Marsh: Kestrel - 1 - male ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 2 - flew S ; Herring Gull - 16 - flew N ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - silent bird in reedbed ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Water Rail - 2 - calling ; Mute Swan - 1 - ad - darvic ring Y335 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - c.

Povey Farm: Pied Wagtail - 13

Redmires conduit: Stonechat - 1 - male

RVCP, Northern Lake: Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - third winter and two fourth winters.

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 6 - 2 adults 4 juvenile ; Black-headed Gull - c30 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Silverwood Pit Top: Redwing - 6 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Jay - 3 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - c15 - Small flock over.

Silverwood Pit Wood: Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 4 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Blackbird - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 - Through tree tops mobbing Tawny Owl in passing. ; Goldfinch - 12 ; 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: 319 - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - RH ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Pochard - 6 ; Gadwall - 4 ; Wigeon - 1F ; Greylag Goose - C120 ; Canada Goose - C140 ; Mute Swan - 38 ; Linnet - 100+ ; Lesser Redpoll - C40 ; Siskin - 1 ; Blackbird - 22 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Fieldfare - 44 ; Redwing - 12 ; Jay - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Peregrine - 1 - Perched on pylon below Wharncliffe Crags, flew after a Woodcock ; Woodcock - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 40+ ; Jay - 2 ; Raven - 1 - Flew over calling ; Common Buzzard - 1

Woodthorpe Hall, Derbyshire: Chaffinch - 30+ - Small flock feeding on ground in field and flying up into hedge ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling from tree top in grounds of Hall.

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 16

Dukes Road: Red Grouse - 25 - in 2 hour walk ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - feeding on track

Elsecar Res: Goosander - 1 - drake

Linacre Res: Mallard - 108 ; Mandarin - 127 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 38 ; Tufted Duck - 74 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - male ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Loxley Valley: Dipper - 3 - 2 birds singing ; Kingfisher - 1 - flew through narrow mesh fence in gloom, just made it. ; Moorhen - 7 - on fishing pond

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 2 - males

Norton Lees garden: Redwing - 5+ - In elder, making forays to a big holly to eat the berries

Orgreave: Water Rail - 1 - Along river bank

R Derwent, Harper Lees: Dipper - 5 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Dipper - 5 - photo

Thrybergh CP: Kingfisher - 1 - Male ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Little Grebe - 9 ; Mute Swan - 38 ; Tufted Duck - 42 ; Pochard - 7 ; Gadwall - 7 ; Wigeon - 11 ; 320 - 2 ; Canada Goose - C140 ; Greylag Goose - 230+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Blackbird - 14 ; Fieldfare - 12