Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Gadwall - 11

Thrybergh CP: Wigeon - 2 ; 320 - 2 ; Gadwall - 4 ; House Martin - 10 ; Skylark - 15 ; Little Grebe - 11

Thrybergh Tip: Chiffchaff - 7 - few passerines around today ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Cormorant - 9 - 2, joined by party of 7 from N; most soon dispersed ; Gadwall - 48 - lots of display ; Pochard - 34 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - adult ; 320 - 4+ ; Mallard - 40-50 - in from W ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Pintail - 1 - f-type ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Shoveler - 14 - inc 4 in from E @ 0834hrs ; Coot - c35 - inc a full-grown juv ; Moorhen - 3 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Long-tailed Tit - 20+ - in 3 flocks ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over ; Jay - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 - in tit-flock ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Lesser Redpoll - 14 - mobile flock ; Mute Swan - 5 - pair on flash but no signs of juvs; 3 SW @ 0749hrs

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Raven - 1 - N @ 0802hrs, mobbed by crow; settled briefly on distant pylon

Burbage: Black Redstart - 1 - still present this morning ; Black Redstart - 1 - Still present at 14:08, unperturbed by climbers and scrapping with a Wren

Catcliffe Flash: Gadwall - 15+ - M&F ; Great Crested Grebe - 2

Ewden Height: Brambling - 1+ - Calling from within a group of 5 finches heading south at 07:40

Greystones garden: Chiffchaff - 1

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c110 - over east at 8:30 ; Red Kite - 1 - appeared low from north east and left south at 11:33 ; Snipe - 7 - over west at 17:45

Orgreave Lakes: Pink-footed Goose - c220 - flew ESE at 08:40 ; Pochard - 60+ - M&F ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 15+ - M&F ; Black-headed Gull - 25+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Goosander - 1 - Female ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20+ ; Lapwing - 4 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Wigeon - 2+ - M&F ; Pink-footed Goose - 220 - ESE

Sothall: Redwing - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden

Thrybergh CP: Green Sandpiper - 2 - at 18:30 until flushed by open water swimmers then went south towards Silverwood Lagoon

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 2 - adult on chimney from 0655hrs, then pair hunting FP together over complex ; Cormorant - 3 - max on pylon

Burbage Rocks: Black Redstart - 1 - still present this morning at Upper Burbage

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Goldcrest - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 - N ; Meadow Pipit - 1+ - S ; Chiffchaff - 2+ - inc 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - 1 N; 4 SW ; Mallard - 15 - E/NE ; Cormorant - 1 - NE ; House Martin - 3 - SW together ; Stock Dove - 1 - W ; Pink-footed Goose - 83-91 - skeins of 38 E @ 0835hrs & 45 E @ 0848hrs; 8 'grey' geese E @ 0750hrs were probably this sp. ; Goldfinch - c30 - in area ; Siskin - 1 - NE ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Great Tit - 3 ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - W @ 0933hrs; probably a juv male on build & all-dark plumage

Redmires Res: Peregrine - 1 - juv - probably a female tangling with Raven on south side of Middle Res ; Kestrel - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 5

Roundwood Golf course: Kestrel - 1 - left S ; Grey Heron - 1 - SW @ 0933hrs ; Coal Tit - 01-Feb ; Carrion Crow - 7+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - W/SW

Thrybergh: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0710hrs

Thrybergh Tip: Common Buzzard - 5 - soaring over together @ 0810hrs

Firsby Res: Barn Owl - 1 - before sunrise.

Greystones garden: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Jay - 1

Hooton Roberts: Kestrel - 1 - on roadside wires

Norton Lees garden: Chiffchaff - 1

Shepherd Wheel: Sparrowhawk - 1

Sothall: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0406hr.

Whirlow Hall Farm: Meadow Pipit - 50+ - flock on playing pitches at 12:00

Wortley Park: Siskin - 80+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 5+