Sightings Archive

Swinton; Pottery Ponds: Moorhen - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1

Thrybergh CP: Shoveler - 3 - 2m 2f ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Pochard - 5 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Canada Goose - C120 ; Greylag Goose - 36 ; Fieldfare - 28 ; Redwing - 15 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Redhead ; Goldfinch - c50 ; Lesser Redpoll - 6

Tinsley Golf Course: FIRECREST - 1 - In woodland by the 15th green with tit flock.

Totley Bents: Pink-footed Goose - c160 - 2 skeins of c80 each, one behind other. Flying south east calling

Warren Vale LNR: Goldfinch - c20 - 2 flocks ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Redwing - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Blackbird - 20+ - loose 'flock' feeding in Hawthorns ; Song Thrush - 1

Warren Vale LNR; Birch Wood: Nuthatch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 03-Apr ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Fieldfare - c25 - dropped into treetops from NE

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Siskin - 1

Woodhouse Washlands: Snipe - 74 - Both top and bottom simultaneously with Pete Wragg ; Jack Snipe - 2 - Very wet unable to access all areas ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Peregrine - 1 - 1 ad male mobbing Buzzard

Wortley: Linnet - c.50 - Low over arable field between Wortley and Westwood Lane.

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 50+ - flock

Dore: Fieldfare - c30

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 9 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Over. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Pheasant - 6+ ; Jackdaw - 5 - Over early morning. ; Lesser Redpoll - 4+ ; Siskin - 2+ - With Redpoll. ; Redwing - 10+ - Feeding in paddock hedge. ; Fieldfare - 4+ ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Goldcrest - 3

Millhouses: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Juv made several visits to the observer's garden during the afternoon.

Millhouses Lane garden: Siskin - 1 - female ; Wren - 1 - first sighting for several months ; Starling - 2 - visiting the suet ball feeder, the first sighting for several months

Norton Lees: Fieldfare - c30 - flew over

Orgreave Lakes: Water Pipit - 1 - Possible calling over small lake then north.

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead still present on first carp pond. ; Herring Gull - 6 - Down on farmland together. ; Goldcrest - 8 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Roosting high in tree. ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+ ; 324 - 10 - Red Deer.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 10 ; Fieldfare - 32 - E @ 1255hrs

Redmires Top Res: Black-headed Gull - 1150 - Roosted ; Common Gull - 3 - With BHG roost ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 0 - No big gulls in roost

Tyzack*s Dam: Goosander - 4 - Frequenting the NW corner close to Abbeydale Road, presumably fishing in the deepest water as the level is falling considerably.

Wentworth Village: Woodcock - 1 - Flew over garden centre towards village 10.30 ; Redwing - 5 ; 327 - 2 ; Skylark - 3 - In field

Wire Mill Dam: Goosander - 3 ; Stock Dove - 8

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon briefly ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over @ 1000hrs ; Peregrine - 1pr - unsuccessfully hunting FP together from 0940hrs before retiring to chimneys briefly

Baslow: Kestrel - 1

Broomhead Res: Goldcrest - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - 0 - 16:00

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 4 - 4 in the air together at 1100

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - c3700 - Roost at 16:15 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 - Flushed by lake swimmers

Norton Lees garden: Blackbird - 04-May - polishing off the last of the Rowan and Cotoneaster berries

Orgreave: Goldeneye - 2 - A pair ; Goosander - 2 - pair

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 64 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 86 ; Herring Gull - 111