Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Great Tit - 4+ - Family party. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 10+ - Including several fledging’s along the hedgerows. ; Whitethroat - 10+ - Including several fledging’s along the hedgerows. ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male. ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 - Singing. ; Skylark - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Black-headed Gull - 2

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - together low over S edge of Gallery Bottom ; Swallow - 2 - feeding low over 17th green ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - adult male collecting food @ 15th tee, flew S toward Thundercliffe Grange

Keppel*s Field: Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting ; Willow Warbler - 3 - 1 singing, 2 calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Langsett Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 - ad - unusual here ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 - pair - flew off south and up small Clough ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - ad on shoreline ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - ad on shoreline ; Siskin - 2 - pair in wood

Lost Lad: Red Grouse - 6 - pair with 4 young flushed from heather ; Red Kite - 2 - separate birds seen

Margery Hill: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - imm seen in soaring on 2 separate occasions from 06:50 hrs - mobbed by up to 3 Common Buzzards which looked tiny by comparison ; Merlin - 1 - mobbing Common Buzzards

Mickleden Beck: Whinchat - 1 - male singing in bracken bank on western side of clough ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing

Mickleden Edge: Golden Plover - 2 - pair alarming due to passing Red Kite

Midhope Moor: Kestrel - 3

Norton Lees: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - adult heard

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Adult on big lake early morning ; Coot - 72 - No juvs! ; Mute Swan - 47 - Inc 5 cygnets

R Sheaf, Heeley, Broadfield Road: Mandarin - 11 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 - 1 adult, 1 juv

Ravenfield area: Barn Owl - 1 - Carrying prey.

Rawmarsh; High Street: Swift - c20 - circling together in a tight 'kettle' @ 0900hrs

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over briefly @ 1000hrs

Rocher head Farm: Pied Flycatcher - 1+ - adult female feeding recently-fledged juveniles near barn ; Redstart - 1 - female/juvenile in beech tree near barn ; Mistle Thrush - 8+ - post-breeding flock in field near Sick Brook

RVCP, Main Lake: Black-headed Gull - 1 - first juvenile bird arrived

Silver Wood: Yellowhammer - 3 - singing behind Silverwood Test Centre, Pingle Lane Tip and hedgerow between woods and Old Ravenfield ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - family party along disused railway line ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - late arrival singing from r/way line pond ; Stock Dove - 3 - on upper-level of Pingle Lane Tip ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing on Pingle Lane Tip ; Linnet - 4 - Pingle Lane Tip ; Skylark - 2 - singing over adjacent fields ; Jay - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Grey Heron - 1 - Woodlaithes duckpond

Walkley Bank Plantation: Stock Dove - 1 - calling/singing

White Lee Moor: HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - up again for a few mins 13:10, drifting north ; Curlew - 14 - feeding in fields ; Lapwing - 10 - feeding in fields ; Stock Dove - 2 - in fields

Wortley: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting towards Wharncliffe Chase 10.10am

Wyming Brook: Red Kite - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 2 - 2 singing

Agden Dyke: Lapwing - 3+ - female with 2 downy young in pasture by Agden Lodge

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 1

Agden Rocher: Red Kite - 1

Bar Brook: Whinchat - 1 - male

Blacka Moor: Red Kite - 1 - mobbed by Curlew and Lapwing ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ - adults and at least 2 fledglings seen, some birds displaying ; Curlew - 6+ - feeding in sheep pasture ; Lapwing - 9+ - at least 2 well-grown young; adult males on high alert, so maybe second clutch to guard ; Starling - c20 - post breeding flock feeding in pasture and flying about ; Skylark - 2+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Wren - 3 ; 319 - 1 - using up-draught over Bole Hill to hunt ; Willow Warbler - 8+ ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Jackdaw - 2 - feeding in sheep pasture ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Linnet - 4 ; Snipe - 2 - flew up from rushy pasture

Blacka Plantation: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5+ ; Wren - 5+ - one fledgling seen ; Blackcap - 3+ ; Blackbird - 3+ ; Robin - 3 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Redstart - 4 - two parents with young ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2