Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Great Black-backed Gull - 45 - Inc yellow ringed 3H1B ; Dunlin - 1 - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - Male low north ; Meadow Pipit - 20 - Tip ; Skylark - 6 - Tip ; Grey Partridge - 5 - Tip ; Stonechat - 6

Parkgate; Netherfield Lane: Pied Wagtail - 1pr

R Don, Effingham St: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1st winter

R Rother, Bolehill: Snipe - 5 - one on stream to flash and 4 of the river bank. In snowy conditions. ; Jack Snipe - 6 - 2 in stream to flash and 4 on the river bank in snowy conditions.

Rawmarsh: Lapwing - 10 - NW @ 1100hrs ; Redwing - 11 - N @ 1100hrs

Sharrow: Goldcrest - 2 - Frog Walk ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 1

Skew Hill: Lapwing - 2 - In flight E of Crematorium

Smithy Wood, Chapeltown: Snipe - 2

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 100+ ; Pochard - 16 ; Goldeneye - 4 ; Shoveler - 9 ; Wigeon - 4 ; Gadwall - 90+ ; Goosander - 3 - west ; Mute Swan - 28 ; Golden Plover - 1 ; Lapwing - 80+ ; Snipe - 3 - One under willows 2 in stream ; Water Rail - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 16 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 14 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Peregrine - 1 - Flew east 11:10 ; Nuthatch - 1 - caravan park - afternoon) ; Redwing - 250+ ; Fieldfare - 40+

Wharncliffe Side: Woodcock - 1 - In flight over observers garden at dusk

Whiston Meadows: Redwing - 100+ ; Stonechat - 1 ; Raven - 2

Wortley: 319 - 2

Barley Hall: Fieldfare - 65+ ; Redwing - 10+

Burngreave Cemetery: Redwing - 150+ ; 319 - 1

Canklow Woods: Lesser Redpoll - 25

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 10 ; Fieldfare - 2

Crowhole: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Goldcrest - up to 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Redwing - 3 ; Fieldfare - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Fulwood: Starling - 25 - including a couple singing

Fulwood garden: Fieldfare - 15 - feeding on holly berries ; Redwing - 12 - feeding on holly berries

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Fieldfare - 10 - in Hawthorns ; Redwing - c40 - feeding in Hawthorns ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - in thrush flock ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in small tit-flock, calling constantly ; Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Lapwing - 1 - SW ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting over scrubby hillside ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Jay - 1

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Kestrel - 1 - on Roman Ridge ; Common Gull - 3 - W together ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/imm, E ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - on set-aside ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Fieldfare - 14 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10 - covey ; Skylark - c55 - on set-aside ; Reed Bunting - 4 - on set-aside ; Yellowhammer - 10 - on set-aside ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Redwing - c20

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Redwing - c25 - in Hawthorns ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Redwing - c30 - feeding on Holly berries ; Great Tit - 2 - singing in sunshine ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Redwing - 3 - NW

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Reed Bunting - 1 - female ; Redwing - 15+ - feeding in Hawthorns