Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Redwing - 22 ; Great Tit - 8 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 57

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1 - flushed from bracken ; Lesser Redpoll - 50+

Whirlow Park: Mandarin - 29+ - On pond at the bottom of the Park ; Jay - 1

Barbrook Res: Whooper Swan - 15 - NW at 16.00

Barlow: Lapwing - c. 95 ; 319 - 02-Mar

Big Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 140 - flying west at 11.55. ; Reed Bunting - 10

Birley Edge: 319 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - On telegraph wires. Unusual to see around here.

Elsecar Res: Goldeneye - 1 - drake

Firsby Res: Pink-footed Goose - 200+ - flew west ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Single through. ; 319 - 3 - Down worming on farmland. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by Blackbirds. ; Jay - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Fieldfare - 50+ - Feeding on berries. ; Blackbird - 4 - Mobbing Tawny. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Starling - 20+ - Down on ploughed field. ; Snipe - 2 - Feeding on flooded farmland. ; Linnet - 2+ ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 5+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - Down together on farmland. ; 324 - 3 - Roe Deer.

Hillsborough Park: Goosander - 3 - redheads ; Coot - 9 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Canada Goose - c80 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - fem

Holling Dale, New Cross: Woodcock - 1 - flushed from moor.

Langsett: Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Red Grouse - 2 ; 320 - 8 - Whistling ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Wren - 1

Leash Fen: Pink-footed Goose - 31 - W at 11.10

Limb Valley: Tawny Owl - 1 heard

Millhouses garden: Redwing - 3 - briefly on a neighbour's tree; first of the season

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 7 - In roost at dusk ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 59 ; Black-headed Gull - C500 ; Goosander - 2 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Drake on large lake ; Stonechat - 3 - 3+ Pair South end of small Lake. Female perched on metal fence of building site North end of large lake ; Jack Snipe - 1 - Flushed from waterlogged footpath South end of Small Lake ; Peregrine - 1 - juv mobbed by Gulls and crows then over Small Lake ; Goosander - 5 - 5 Redheads Small Lake ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on the river by the weir

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Pair. ; Moorhen - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 ; Pheasant - 4 ; Song Thrush - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Brambling - 1 - male in observers garden

Whirlow (Whinfell gardens): Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 heard

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c140 ; Great Black-backed Gull - c50 - numbers increasing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - just a single adult present ; Peregrine - 1 - ad on E side of Bernard Rd incinerator building ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1w on roof at Warren St

Derwent Dam: Peregrine - 2

Eastmoor: Starling - 100 ; Starling - 100 ; 319 - 4

Ecclesall: Goosander - 1 - male south over Ansell Road at 08:30 hrs

Ewden Village/Carrhouse area: Grey Wagtail - 1 - on broomhead res overflow ; Dipper - 1 - Same area as wagtail ; Pheasant - 12+ ; Mallard - 20+ ; Black-headed Gull - 15/20 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 7 ; Jay - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 7 ; Jackdaw - 30+ ; Magpie - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Redwing - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blue Tit - 05-Jun ; Coal Tit - 08-Oct ; Great Tit - 3 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 4