Sightings Archive

Sunday 20th December 2020

• Catcliffe Flash: Tufted Duck - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Gadwall - 10
• Dore: Collared Dove - 5 - the first I have seen in Dore for well over six months -seemingly much scarcer ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - c60 flying low N/NW 15.15
• Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 18
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; 320 - 1 - Single Female still present. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Herring Gull - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Worming on farmland. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male made a kill near entrance gate. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Perched on water side willow. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed from under willows near stream. ; Jackdaw - 2 - Down in sheep paddock. ; Pheasant - 1 ; Jay - 1
• Gibbing Greave Wood: Jay - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 - very vocal ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Treecreeper - 1
• Graves Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
• Green Moor: Golden Plover - 1 - One flew over calling and recorded on Audiomoth
• Harthill Res: Grey Heron - 1 - first-winter ; Cormorant - 14 - mostly off W ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 17 ; Goosander - 12 - 2 ad male, 1 imm male & 9 redheads ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Red Kite - 1 - heard calling in distance ; Kestrel - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Blackbird - 8 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Siskin - 10
• Herringthorpe Valley Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 9 - 2 over, 7 in streamside alders ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Kingfisher - 1 - male, on stream below playground; left downstream ; Greenfinch - 30 - dispersed from roost(?) in holly near playground in small parties
• Herringthorpe Wood: Blue Tit - present - 1-2 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Coal Tit - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 2 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1
• Herringthorpe Wood; Great Bank: Coal Tit - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Goldfinch - c25 - feeding in birch ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - with Goldfinch flock ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Redwing - c10
• Kiveton Community Woodland: Kestrel - 1 ; Golden Plover - 3 - in fields ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - c. ; Starling - 50 - c. in fields
• Lodge Moor: Treecreeper - 2 - top of Black Brook ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Stonechat - 1 - male - conduit near Lodge Moor Rd
• Moorhall: Stonechat - 2 ; Kestrel - 3
• Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 30+ ; Pochard - 80+ ; Goldeneye - 2 - M&F ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Goosander - 5 - 3 M, 2 Redhead ; Cormorant - 3 ; Lapwing - 25+ ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; 320 - 8+ ; Wigeon - 2 - Males ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3+ ; Herring Gull - 1+ ; Herring Gull - 1+ ; Goosander - 31 - Can in to roost ; Great Black-backed Gull - 64 - In roist ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Herring Gull - 128 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - C400
• Rivelin Dams: Cormorant - 1
• Rotherham; Gin House Lane: Great Black-backed Gull - 12 - recycling centre ; Herring Gull - c45
• Shepcote Lane: Herring Gull - c40 - heading beyond Outokumpo works to roost late dusk, possibly on service reservoir.
• Thrybergh CP: Water Rail - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 11