Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: 321 - 2 - juvenile. ; House Martin - 50+ ; Lapwing - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 3

Ramsley Moor: Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 22 - Three parties flew S W. ; Chiffchaff - 14 - Notable influx ; Lesser Redpoll - 16 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Stonechat - 3

Rawmarsh: Meadow Pipit - 10+ - light but steady movement to S to late morning at least

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over/interacting, then S/SW @ 1305hrs

Tankersley: 320 - 26 ; Snipe - 3 ; Mallard - 88

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 22 ; Canada Goose - 400+ ; Greylag Goose - 18 ; Pink-footed Goose - 51 - 50 SE at 09:40; one in with Canada's; ; Pochard - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lapwing - 30 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ - Moving southward ; Skylark - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldcrest - 3

Wortley: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - With 3 Pied Wags ; House Martin - 01-Feb ; Meadow Pipit - 8 - South

Castle Dyke playing fields: Black-headed Gull - 100+

Foxhill, Shaw Hill: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from copse by farm

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: House Martin - c20

Midhope Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Raven - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Little Grebe - 5+ ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - Amongst a mixed tit group ; Siskin - 15+

Poolsbrook CP: 322 - 1 - Black Swan ; Tufted Duck - 33 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - calling ; House Sparrow - 30 - c. by car park across from cafe

Redmires conduit: Swallow - c40 ; House Martin - 2 - 2 with passage of swallows ; Meadow Pipit - c30 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 - M and F on horse fields wall ; 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - c40 - In horse fields

Shillito Wood: Little Owl - 1 - Perched on the old building to the east of the wood

Tankersley: 320 - 20+ ; Snipe - 5 ; Lapwing - 6

Thrybergh CP: Canada Goose - c400 ; Mute Swan - 34 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Lapwing - 30+ ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Swallow - 30 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; House Martin - 12 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 13 ; Chaffinch - 20+ ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jay - 1

Upper Midhope: Swallow - c20

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 8 ; Shoveler - 5 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; 320 - 63

Norton Lees: Woodpigeon - 1 - defiant song from observer's chimney stack despite wind and rain this morning

Redmires Res: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting on the south side of the Middle Reservoir at 18:30 hrs ; Tufted Duck - 15

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 12 - at 16:00

Tankersley: 322 - 1 - Ringed Teal. 1 Female. You never know we are having strong SW winds. ; 320 - 23 ; Mallard - 41 ; Greenshank - 1 ; Greenshank - 1 - another photo from distance. ; Mandarin - 1 - A male - more escaped exotica? ; Greenshank - 2 - Still present. ; Snipe - 4+

Walkley: Long-tailed Tit - c30 - in mixed tit flock of 60+ near Asda, South Road

Bubnell: Sparrowhawk - 1

Calver: 319 - 1

Coombs Dale: Goldfinch - 10 ; Swallow - 2

Hassop: Swallow - c11

Middleton Moor: Little Egret - 1