Sightings Archive

Harley; Coach Road: Song Thrush - 4 - inc one singing

Howden Clough: Tree Pipit - 1 - singing ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Grey Heron - 1 - juv ; Whinchat - 2 - males, one carrying food, second bird singing nearby

Howden Edge: Red Kite - 1 - distant raggy bird, mobbed by 2 small falcons.

Keppel*s Field: Skylark - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over, mobbed by corvids & left S

Malin Bridge: Goldfinch - 7 - in garden, inc 5 juvs

Margery Hill: Marsh Harrier - 1 - distant

Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 1 - Still singing in reed bed at main lagoon ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Drakes

Orgreave Lakes: Lapwing - 6 - Pair with 4 newly hatched chicks

Ravenfield Church.: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Shatton: Grey Wagtail - 2 - pr collecting food ; Dipper - 1

Shillito Wood: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - over west ; Pheasant - 1 - calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3+ - ad male; ad fem feeding at least one recently fledged juv ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 - male ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 2+ - inc juv ; Blue Tit - 2 - adults ; Great Tit - 1 - ad ; Jackdaw - 7 - over NE ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 10+ - inc juvs ; Reed Bunting - 4+ - inc juvs ; Yellowhammer - 5+ - inc juvs

Thrybergh CP: Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 38 - inc 3y-2y ; Tufted Duck - 21 - 4f ; 319 - 1 - soar in se ; Wren - 11 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - 2 singing ; Whitethroat - 5 - 3 singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - 3 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Great Tit - 60+ - inc 8 fams ; Blue Tit - 40+ - inc 5 fams ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Tawny Owl - 1 - juv dead on road

Upper Hey: Curlew - 2 - pair alarming

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Swift - 1 ; Swallow - 4 ; Linnet - 2 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male low through gardens @ 7.15AM. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Adults together over Flanderwell Avenue.

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 5 - fem/eclipse males ; Greylag Goose - 19 - 19 adults, 12 juvs ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults on shore ; Coot - 2 - one incubating

Firsby Res: Mallard - 6 - Female with 5 well grown ducklings. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; 319 - 1 - On telegraph pole ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - 3 - Feeding over willows. ; Swift - 15+ - Feeding low over crops. ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - newly fledged juvs. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Yellowhammer - 3 - Males singing. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Linnet - 8 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Skylark - 1 ; Robin - 1 - Singing. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - Calling in crops.

Loxley Chase: Curlew - 1 - display flight

Orgreave Lakes: Dunlin - 5 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 1 - Fledged juv ; Cuckoo - 1 - being pursued by Meadow Pipits over Small Lake.

Ravenfield Church: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from woodland. ; Blackbird - 4+ - mobbing calling Owl. ; Swallow - 3

Redmires: Red Kite - 1 - over the Fairthorn Lodge area around 08.45

Redmires Bottom Res: Whitethroat - 1 - Singing in trees above bottom reservoir

Redmires Middle Res: Kestrel - 1 - flying over dam wall ; Ringed Plover - 1 - Feeding on shoreline ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - feeding on shoreline ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 2 - Flying in from surrounding moorland and feeding on shoreline ; Canada Goose - 5+ - On path at top of dam

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - Male and female swimming on small area of water still left in reservoir. ; Canada Goose - 5+ - On shoreline around small patch of water still in reservoir

Silverwood Lagoon: Marsh Harrier - 1 - male in from east at 07.55, flew low along length of western paddocks, then drifted off SW