Sightings Archive

Waterthorpe garden: Starling - 10

Wentworth: 319 - 1 ; Goldfinch - c40 ; Blackbird - c20 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 - Over

Wentworth Park: Golden Plover - 21 - circled over indecisively before heading off NE ; Stock Dove - 3

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Mallard - 49 ; Coot - 9 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Wentworth Park; East Lodge: Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Goldcrest - 1

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Mallard - c100 ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Moorhen - c25 - most feeding in field edge ; Coot - c20 ; Black-headed Gull - c60 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over fields to S, calling

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Mallard - 16+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1

Worrall: Common Gull - 3 ; Stonechat - 1 - Low Ash Farm

Baslow SF: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing

Canklow: Greenfinch - 1 - to garden feeders with up to 5 Goldfinch

Canklow Woods: Song Thrush - 3 - 3 singing ; Tawny Owl - 1 - 1 calling 0100

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 12 - Main Res. ; Mute Swan - 1 - Present for at least a week. ; Grey Heron - 3 - On farmland stood together. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Herring Gull - 2 - Over. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Down on main Res. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Hunted briefly near houses then flew off over Horse paddocks. ; Little Owl - 1 - On old farm building. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Call only. ; Fieldfare - 100+ - Over from Ravenfield Park. ; Magpie - 14 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing Male. ; Skylark - 5 - Singing and chasing over farmland

High Bradfield: White-fronted Goose - 1 - 1w again with Greylags just SE of High Bradfield below Nether House Farm ; Greylag Goose - c250 - in fields below Nether House Farm

Malin Bridge: Wren - 1 - in garden, singing 07:19

Nether Edge: Jay - 2 - St Andrew’s Rd

Thorpe Hesley: Skylark - 6 - 3 singing ; 319 - 1 - Circling over fields

Thrybergh CP: Goldeneye - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 38 - Wildfowl numbers way down this morning may be due to bird scarer set-up by farmer ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; 319 - 2 ; Fieldfare - 44

Worrall: Black Redstart - 1 - Female still near Low Ash farm, on wall 2 fields north. ; Stonechat - 2 - pair in fields Low Ash farm

Broomhead Res: Goosander - 14 - Roosting at dusk. 5 males

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 63 ; Canada Goose - 24

Crosspool: Tawny Owl - 1

Frecheville: Goosander - 9 - Frecheville pond

Fulwood garden: Mistle Thrush - 3 - over E, one singing as it flew ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - over N shortly after each other ; Magpie - 2 - Pair nest building in pine ; Blue Tit - 2 - Pair in and out of nestbox

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Stock Dove - 21 ; Tree Sparrow - 24 - 15 + 9 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2

Kimberworth Park: Woodpigeon - 150+ - S and W @ 08:55 from beyond Shepherd's Plantation.

Lodge Moor: Magpie - 55 - In treetops at top of Crimicar Lane late afternoon

Norfolk Heritage Park: 319 - 1 - being mobbed by crows. Flew into one of it's regular tree perches in Jervis Lum. ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Redwing - c20 - vocal in tree tops

Norfolk Park garden: Blue Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; House Sparrow - 1 - male ; Collared Dove - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 2

Redmires Middle Res: Herring Gull - 3 - 2 adults and a second-winter

Silver Wood: Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing near r/way line pond, one singing near car park in top woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 9 ; Gadwall - 1 ; Mallard - 3 ; Shelduck - 2 - east at 08.30 ; Little Grebe - 1