Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Red-crested Pochard - 5 - 1m4f ; Pochard - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 35 ; 319 - 1 - in se soar. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 43 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 - + ; Herring Gull - 1 - a ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ad w ; Skylark - 47 - inc. flock 22 se 15 infields ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Robin - 26 ; Blackcap - 1 - f ; Chiffchaff - 11 - 3sing ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Great Tit - 13 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 11 ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 - + ; Magpie - 12 ; Carrion Crow - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Coot - c60 ; Mute Swan - 1pr+ - #NAME? ; 320 - 13 - inc 5 'in' ; Gadwall - 62 - inc displaying party ; Pochard - 16 - 13 m; 3 f/juv ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 - juvs ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Moorhen - 10+ ; Little Grebe - 3prs+ - + 2-3 juvs each; lots of squabbling & calling ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Shoveler - 6 ; Wigeon - 12 - all drakes ; Mallard - 18

Crookes: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing by track below St.Anthony Road

Firsby Res: Grey Heron - 2 - Chasing each other and calling. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; 319 - 1 - In woodland. ; Kestrel - 1 - On telegraph pole in set aside field. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Juv Male low over farmland scattering Finches and WP. ; Pheasant - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Jay - 2 - Flew from Willows. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Almost complete absence of small birds. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Linnet - 5+ - Flushed by Sparrowhawk.

Malin Bridge: House Sparrow - 15+ - visiting feeders in garden for several months now...

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult ; Snipe - 5 ; Dunlin - 3 - straight through S ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 ; Wigeon - 4 ; 320 - 50 ; 321 - 1 - over ; Moorhen - 5 - 3 juvs ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Mallard - 15 ; Coot - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 5

Nether Edge: House Martin - 3 - still frequenting a nest in roof of junction of Empire Rd and Abbeydale Rd

Orgreave Lakes: Greenshank - 1 - In at 07:40 then south at 07:55 ; Snipe - 5 - 5 north then south at 10:00 ; Wigeon - 6 ; 320 - 15 ; Little Egret - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 47 - inc 1 1cy ; Mallard - c50 ; Tufted Duck - 3

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in tit-flock ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - in tit-flock ; Blue Tit - c15 ; Great Tit - c10

Ravenfield Church: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 9 - 5 on main Res, 4 more arrived together. ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling in woodland. ; Treecreeper - 1

Redmires Bottom Res: Grey Heron - 9 - NINE(!) flying west at 16:00 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Swallow - 3

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 22 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 100 - c. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - c. ; Song Thrush - 3 - by Top Res ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Goldcrest - 2 - in Fairthorn Clough ; Linnet - 200 - c. post-breeding flock on Middle Res ; Meadow Pipit - 80 - c. mostly SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 100 - c. roosting on Middle Res

Rother Valley CP: Goosander - 3 - 3 females on river near wildlife lake.