Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Redwing - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Lapwing - 42 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35 - On lake with several additional small groups flying in to roost ; Starling - 5000 - First groups of birds showed nice murmuration. Later and larger groups flew in and went straight to roost .

Millhouses garden: Woodpigeon - 7

Mosborough: Pink-footed Goose - 80+ - skein of 80+ SE at 0920hr

Orgreave Lakes: Black-headed Gull - 220+ ; Tufted Duck - 24+ ; Pochard - 110+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25+ ; Lapwing - 25+ ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Goldeneye - 2 - 2nd photo ; 320 - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Wigeon - 2

Ramsley Moor: Kestrel - 2 ; Stonechat - 2

Redmires Res: Black-headed Gull - 565 - roosted on Top Res ; Common Gull - 2 - ad & 1st winter roosted with BHGs ; Herring Gull - 2 - 2nd-winters roosted ; Greenfinch - 10 - roosted ; Goldfinch - 20 - roosted ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Fieldfare - 100 - Flew over

Tankersley Golf Course: Goldfinch - c40 ; Long-tailed Tit - c20 - Large roving group with odd Blue Tit too ; Redwing - 10+ ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - c50 - Groups flying over towards Langsett Res roosts 3-4pm

White Edge: Raven - 2

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Foxhill: 319 - 1 - Over Shaw Hill Farm

Hagg Lane Allotments: Kestrel - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Robin - 4 ; Magpie - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Dunnock - 3 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Goldfinch - 4

Orgreave Lakes: Stonechat - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 ; Fieldfare - 60 - South ; Grey Partridge - 5

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 3 - 3 redheads

Rawmarsh: Fieldfare - c40 - E in two flocks, 1035hrs

Rawmarsh; High Street: Grey Heron - 1 - settled on roof of Earl Grey PH, overlooking garden pond @ 0818hrs before leaving E

Rivelin Valley: Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Mandarin - 14 ; Dipper - 1 - Silver ring on right leg ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Walkley garden: Redwing - 1 - Perched at top of plum tree before passing through.

Aldwarke: Peregrine - 1 - Making a number of unsuccessful swoops at feral pigeon group over Melting shop 08.35.

Barlborough: Snipe - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 5 ; Fieldfare - c6 - in mixed flock with Redwing ; Redwing - c8 ; Long-tailed Tit - c18

Baslow: Pink-footed Goose - 110+ - S-E at 13.10

Bassingthorpe Farm: Red-legged Partridge - 9 ; Redwing - 2 - Feeding in paddock. ; Mistle Thrush - 1+ - One feeding in paddock among horses and 1 singing S of farm. ; Carrion Crow - 20+

Bassingthorpe Spring: Kestrel - 1 - Female caught prey,landing briefly on dead tree. ; Dunnock - 1 - calls ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls

Clough Stream ( Indian War Path): Blackbird - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Bullfinch - 1

Coal Aston: Pink-footed Goose - 120+ - Flew SE at 13:15

Curbar Gap: Lapwing - 200 - a large flock moving through southwards

Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Mandarin - 1 - Female on lake at the cottage end of the first dam with a group of Mallards.

Hudson*s Rough: Redwing - 5+ ; Blackbird - 6+ ; Jay - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+

Load Brook: Crossbill - 5 ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 3