Sightings Archive

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 ; Curlew - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 18 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2 CY ; Black-headed Gull - 16 ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling male ; Kestrel - 2 - pair ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing in front of hide ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing in typha ; Skylark - 5 - c. including this confiding individual

Norton Lees: Swift - 4+ - 4 am, 2 pm

Orgreave Lakes: Sanderling - 1+ - 1 or 2 ; Dunlin - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 5+ - tundrae type ; Turnstone - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; Dunlin - 4 - In summer plunage ; Common Tern - 1

Padley Gorge: Wood Warbler - 3 ; Pied Flycatcher - 5 ; Redstart - 6 - 1 female carrying food into nest hole ; Cuckoo - 1 - Singing on woodland/moorland edge ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Being mobbed by 2 Blackbirds ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Food in beak ; Blue Tit - 1

Porter Clough: Hobby - 1 - adult hunting over Porter Clough and adjacent meadows at Greenhouse Lane

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 3 - 2 high to N/NW & 1 high to S/SE @ c1515hrs

Redmires Middle Res: Sanderling - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1+ - with young ; Oystercatcher - 6 - resident pair, and another 4 birds dropped in, one trailing what looked like fishing line from a leg. ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Redmires Res: Dunlin - 2 - a pair, summmer plumage ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Mallard - 2 - pair with 3 young ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male ; Oystercatcher - 3 - 2 ads with single fresh chick on Middle Res ; Dunlin - 2 - ads in summer plumage - display noted ; Sanderling - 1 - ad in summer plumage on Middle Res from 06:40 hrs ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female carrying food into Middle Res plantation ; Whinchat - 1 - male singing by Middle Res ; Whitethroat - 1 - male singing by Middle Res ; Willow Warbler - 13 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - male calling ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - family party by Top Res ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - adult in bushes by Bottom Res - flew off E ; House Martin - 4

Rivelin Valley: Greenfinch - 1 - Singingin observers garden for 2 days . First in 2 years.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - disp. ; Mute Swan - 19 ; Gadwall - 1 - left e ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 4m,1f ; Pheasant - 4 - crow ; Moorhen - 7 - 2ad,5y ; Coot - 17+ - 2pr with 7y,6y ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Herring Gull - 8 - inc 6 past s ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - inc 3past n ; Common Tern - 2 - in at 09:10 ; Swift - 20+ - high in mist ; Skylark - 8+ - sing ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Great Tit - 14+ - inc.2 families ; Blue Tit - 9+ - inc a family party ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - family ; Chaffinch - 6+ - family ; Reed Bunting - 4 - sing

Ulley Res: Mute Swan - 2+ - 2 adults + 8 chicks

Unstone: Skylark - 2+ - Fields above Unstone Hall

Walkley garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - Hooting from trees for 5 mins

Wharncliffe Res: Osprey - 1 - Just south of Wharncliffe Reservoir at 16:55, harried by Crow, then flew off east over Woodhead Road.

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - adult harassing FPs on roof then onto chimney briefly

Barlborough: Chiffchaff - 1 - Heard

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 4 ; 319 - 3 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Swift - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Swallow - 9 ; Linnet - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - including three newly fledged juveniles ; Goldfinch - 04-May

Big Moor: Skylark - 2

Bramley: Hobby - 1 - low over gardens ; 319 - 1 - Soaring high over village.