Sightings Archive

Grange Park Golf Course: Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 8+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 - At least 8 feeding on Silver Birch alongside Goldfinches, N side of 9th fairway. ; Bullfinch - 1+

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

Green Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 100 - c100 flew east at 11:46

Hallam Moors: Stonechat - 1 - male along conduit path from Redmires

Kelham Island: Kingfisher - 1 - Single male on overhanging branch

Kilnhurst: Canada Goose - 3 - N

Kilnhurst Ings: Fieldfare - 65 - all left S ; Redwing - c30 - inc c20 feeding in Hawthorns ; Cormorant - 04-Jul - 4 S; 3 N ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - S ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Mallard - 1pr ; Chaffinch - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Snipe - 7 ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Goosander - 1 - redhead, S, then N, then W, dropping towards Baker's Pond ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on river ; Pink-footed Goose - c110 - E @ 0903hrs

Kilnhurst Riverside: Cormorant - 3 - 1 W; 2 N ; Fieldfare - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Canada Goose - 2 - N ; Bullfinch - 01-Feb ; Goosander - 1 - redhead, N then onto river (same as Ings bird?) ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2 - on river ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - S ; Herring Gull - 5 - S ; Siskin - 1+ - over

Kimberworth: Greenfinch - 1 - On garden sunflower hearts feeder.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Greylag Goose - C30 - Landed on midhope res ; Pink-footed Goose - 339 ; Raven - 3 ; Fieldfare - 81 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Starling - 28

Mexborough: Pink-footed Goose - 58 - flew east over Church St at 08:55

Midhope Res: Red Grouse - 2 - Extremely angry grouse. Attacked me twice.

Norton Lees: Pied Wagtail - 1

Norton Lees garden: Mistle Thrush - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 44 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Herring Gull - 89 ; Common Gull - 3 - 2 adults ; Black-headed Gull - C800

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 300+

Pit-house West: BITTERN - 1 - Flew from reedbed to reedbed calling (croaking sound) before disappearing from sight within seconds ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling near Chinese bridge ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from tree plantation

R Don, Aldwarke: Goosander - 10 - 4m; 6f, occasional display ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 6prs ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Jay - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c10 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 - 1 on river; 1 SW onto pylon

R Don, Attercliffe: Goosander - 2 ; Kingfisher - 3 ; Stock Dove - 2

R Don, Effingham St: Cormorant - 1 - Single active adult above weir.

R Don, Swinton Bridge: Cormorant - 4 - in riverside trees

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 15+ ; Coot - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20+ ; Siskin - 2+ - With Redpoll. ; Bullfinch - 2

Ringinglow: Pink-footed Goose - 170 - heading east

Stanage Edge: Pink-footed Goose - 420 - Flew SE in 4 skeins from 08:25 to 08:50 hrs ; Raven - 2 ; Golden Plover - 25 - c. overhead in two separate flocks

Thrybergh CP: Goosander - 5 - male and 4 redheads in from west at 09.50

Whiteley Woods: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by crow

Woodhouse Tip: Pink-footed Goose - 200+ - Flying ENE. 140+ at 9.15 and 60+ at 9.20 ; Fieldfare - 90+ - 30+ feeding in Hawthorne's and 60+ sw at 9.40

Barlow Common: Kingfisher - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldfinch - 20+

Big Moor: Redwing - c50 - In flight calling ; House Sparrow - 1 - strange sight of male in isolated hawthorn at side of A621 at 300masl. Well over 1km from nearest habitation.