Sightings Archive

Ulley Res: 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Kingfisher - 02-Mar - One on wall of sluice dam wall, 2 squabbling in willows Morthen arm.

Agden Res: Mandarin - 100 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Coal Tit - 5 - On feeders

Aldwarke SF: Carrion Crow - 7 - together ; Bullfinch - 01-Feb ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 - 1m; 2f ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - SW ; Common Buzzard - 01-Feb - one left SW; same - or another - soaring over later ; Herring Gull - 61 - all SW in parties of up to 26 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Gadwall - 5 - 3m; 2f ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Linnet - 4 - over ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m; 1f

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Cormorant - 9 - max on pylon

Broomhead Res: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - On feeders in wood ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female ; Treecreeper - 4

Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - c40

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew upstream under bridge 12.00

Coombs Dale: Redwing - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 1

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 17 ; Common Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - c80

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Redwing - 16 - inc 7 'in' & 2 SW ; Jackdaw - 20 - S/SE ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 33 - over adjacent field ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over adjacent field ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - displaying over @ 0700hrs ; Goldcrest - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - Flushed from main Res. ; 319 - 1 - Perched in tree at edge of set aside field. ; Peregrine - 1 - In a stoop over cottage. ; Fieldfare - 8 - Coming into roost, ; Jackdaw - 3 - Flushed by Peregrine.

Forge Dam: 319 - 3 - circling together

Fox Hill, nr Shaw Hill Farm: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Over, calling ; Peregrine - 1 - Over, heading NE

Holling Dale Plantation: Crossbill - c25 - vocal flock

Malin Bridge: House Sparrow - 10+ - Several coming to garden feeders every day with a visitor ..wood mouse..

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1800+ ; Herring Gull - 9 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 ; Goosander - 16 - 2 adult drakes, 14 redheads

Pit-house West: Water Rail - 2 - sharming at dusk ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling male

Ravenfield Church: Mistle Thrush - 1 - On spire AM.

Ravenfield Park: Moorhen - 6+ ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 20+ ; Kingfisher - 1 - Call only. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - F over. ; Redwing - 1 - Single over calling. ; Fieldfare - 2 - In dead tree @ Doncaster road end. ; Coal Tit - 2+ ; Linnet - 4 - Over calling.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Great Tit - 3 - in garden ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Goldfinch - 6

Redmires conduit: Brambling - 30+ - in trees near conduit ; Redwing - 3

Redmires Middle Res: Golden Plover - 50 ; Lapwing - 70 ; 320 - 9 ; Fieldfare - 27 - flew west

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 46 - in fields ; Greylag Goose - 40 - in fields ; Mallard - 30 - c. ; 320 - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - on Top Res ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female briefly ; Kestrel - 2 ; Golden Plover - 80 - c. on Middle Res ; Lapwing - 75 - c. on Middle Res ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 1st-winter ; Woodpigeon - 1000 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Woodpigeon - 1000 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Brambling - 30 - c. flew W ; Chaffinch - 25 - c. by Top Res ; Meadow Pipit - 20 - around Hammond's Field ; Blackbird - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1 - dark continental-type bird flushed from a ditch by Bottom Res