Sightings Archive

Saturday 9th January 2021

• Ecclesfield: Fieldfare - 1 - In field beside Butterthwaite Hall ; Redwing - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male, hunting. ; Blackbird - 6 - Feeding on windfall apples in garden.
• Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 165 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - On the ice. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Feeding in small ice free area at waters edge. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Down from tree onto road in front of observers car.
• Frecheville: Willow Tit - 2 - Pair coming to bird feeder on Alport Road
• Gleadless Valley LNR: Jay - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 - heard
• Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 6 ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 2
• Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 2 - M&F ; Song Thrush - 1
• Handsworth garden: 324 - 1 - Fox
• High Riggs, Stannington: Crossbill - 4 - flew as far as Stannington village ; Meadow Pipit - 40 - feeding in fields
• Holmesfield: Redwing - 50 - In fields below Cartledge Hall ; Fieldfare - 1 - Single bird among large flock of Redwing
• Hudson*s Rough: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 10+ - several singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Treecreeper - 1+ ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 5+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls
• Low Bradfield: Greylag Goose - c180 - several flocks in flight landed in fields around Nether House farm 15:45.
• Loxley Valley: Barn Owl - 1 - bird with remains of jesses hunting fields around Loxley Grange after sunset.
• Mayfield Valley: Little Owl - 1 - Above Mayfield Farm ; Stock Dove - 2 - Pair ; Common Gull - 2 - Adults flew W up valley ; 319 - 1 - Very dark bird headed S ; Kestrel - 1 ; Fieldfare - 35 - Feeding in fields ; Redwing - 20 - Feeding in fields
• Moss Valley, upper: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 60+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Perched on gable of a building at Povey Farm
• Orgreave: Goldeneye - 8 - 4 males ; Lapwing - 36 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 38 - Roosting on ice ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 ; Herring Gull - 316 ; Goosander - 30 - Lots of display
• Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 14 - 14 adults on small lake at 10:10 ; Wigeon - 100+ ; Tufted Duck - 56+ ; Pochard - 130+ ; Goldeneye - 7 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Herring Gull - 115+ ; Grey Heron - 5 ; Whooper Swan - 14 - Still there at 12.30 ; Whooper Swan - 14 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 40+ ; 320 - 6+ ; Lapwing - 8 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Gadwall - 7+ ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Whooper Swan - 14 - On small lake early morning ; Stonechat - 2 ; Peregrine - 2
• Oughtibridge: Goosander - 4 - 2 pairs fishing to the rear of the cricket pitch ; Rook - 1 - on bird feeder, unusual in garden, and first time on feeder.
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Redwing - 2 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female, over from golf course ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Blackbird - c20 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1