Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 83 ; Pochard - 3 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Lapwing - 43 - On island ; Curlew - 1 - Flew from tip ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - Juvenile again on Big Lake early morning.

R Don, Effingham St: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - juvenile & 4 cy ; Herring Gull - 3 - 2 cy, 3/4 cy, adult ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2 cy

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Mediterranean Gull - 1 - juv with yellow colour ring - one of 2 ringed at Old Moor ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 4 cy (different bird to Effingham Street).

Redmires Middle Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - all adults late evening; all gulls left E at 21:37 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 73 - late evening; all gulls left E at 21:37 ; Greylag Goose - 6+ - 6 adults and 2 half-grown juvs ; Oystercatcher - 1 - arrived from S late evening

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 - inc pr with 3y ; Cormorant - 2 - both left w ; Mute Swan - 51 - inc.2pr with 3y2y ; Tufted Duck - 33 ; 319 - 1 - se soar ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - crow ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past e ; Swift - 13 - inc. party 12 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - brief song ; Willow Warbler - 2 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - call ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - noisy feed party ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - f/jv drifting se 0920 ; Common Tern - 2 - ad feed.left nw later

Wadsley Common garden: Tawny Owl - 3 - 3 juveniles calling in garden.

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 3 - including a juvenile ; Linnet - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Stock Dove - 02-Apr - two, then later either the same two or a different two ; Swallow - 1 ; Goldfinch - 50+ - including a large flock

Burbage Valley: Linnet - 2 - 1 male ; Meadow Pipit - 7 - Adult with food, juvenile begging ; Stonechat - 8 - Male, female & juveniles ; Kestrel - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 2+ - ad pr + 4 young ; Gadwall - 30+ ; Mallard - 90+ ; Pochard - 3 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Little Grebe - 9+ - 7 ads, 2 juvs ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 6+ - inc juvs ; Coot - 54+ - inc juvs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - fem hunting ; Black-headed Gull - 3

Firsby Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 - Feeding at waters edge.. ; Snipe - 1 - Feeding on mud in front of dam wall reed bed. ; Lapwing - 1 - On mud.

Green Moor: Little Owl - 5 - Confirmed 2 adults and three owlets this morning

Greystones: Swift - 4 - Flying very low over observer's garden

Longshaw: Swift - 1

Longshaw Lodge: Siskin - 2 - males ; Swallow - 5+ - inc juveniles

Orgreave Lakes: Mediterranean Gull - 1 - juv thus evening

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

RVCP: Kingfisher - 1 - Male on River Rother

RVCP, Main Lake: Little Egret - 2 - In trees on island ; Pied Wagtail - 12 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Tufted Duck - 30 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Lapwing - 60+

Scholes Coppice: Wren - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - juvs ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Magpie - 1+

Thrybergh CP: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1

Barlow Brook: Nuthatch - 01-Feb ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Swift - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 01-Feb

Bassingthorpe Spring: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Edge Mount: Kestrel - 4 - family party hunting over rough pasture .

Hathersage: Swift - 3

Higger Tor: Kestrel - 2

High Bradfield: Green Woodpecker - 2 - alarm calling around probable nest site .

Hudson*s Rough: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - Inc 1 singing