Sightings Archive

Friday 4th May 2018

• Centenary Riverside: Reed Warbler - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male ; Blackcap - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2 pair ; Canada Goose - 5 - Squabbling on pond.
• Dukes Road: Hobby - 1
• Edge Mount: Lapwing - 3 - 1 adult + 2 fluffy chicks .
• Firsby Res: Osprey - 1 - at c17:15. low over water mobbed by Buzzard towards Ravenfield fishing ponds/Thrybergh CP. ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; 319 - 2 - Mobbed by crows ; Garden Warbler - 4 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 7 ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Willow Tit - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Adults feeding young ; Blackcap - 11c
• Fulwood: Reed Bunting - 1 - again present at feeders in observer's garden - 10th consecutive day ; 319 - 2 - circling over observer's house, with calling and display ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing observer's garden
• Hammond*s Field: Lapwing - 1+ - adult with 2 small chicks ; Snipe - 2 - chippering
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Hobby - 2 - Flew high over twice ; Mute Swan - 3 - Pair now on 7 eggs ; Greylag Goose - 2
• Loxley Valley: Little Owl - 1
• Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Heard.
• Onesmoor bottom: Wheatear - 5 - 4m 1f sat on wall
• Orgreave Lakes: Snipe - 1 - 1 flushed from ravine north of big lake ; Grey Partridge - 2 - 2 north of big lake ; Reed Bunting - 2 - pair in ravine north of big lake ; Whimbrel - 1 - Early morning then north ; Common Tern - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing in area between railway and river bridge
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 9 ; Redstart - 02-Mar ; Tree Pipit - 01-Feb ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard, and then seen flying ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Pied Flycatcher - 12 - At least 12 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 10+
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Kestrel - 1 - male over from adjacent nesting site ; Blackcap - 2 - inc one singing ; Mallard - 2 - drakes, SW ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - presumably with nest/young nearby, chasing off marauding MGs ; Gadwall - 3 - 2m in pursuit of f over, before returning to Aldwarke SF ; Lapwing - 1 - S ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 11 - W/SW ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swift - 1 - drifted SW @ 0735hrs ; Long-tailed Tit - 6
• Parkgate; Barber*s Avenue: House Martin - 2 - over ; Collared Dove - 4
• Peat Pits: Wheatear - 2 - Pair ; Snipe - 1 - Drumming ; Grey Partridge - 1
• Redmires Bottom Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Cuckoo - 2
• Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 1 - On island ; Reed Bunting - 2
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 6 - including territorial flights and courtship ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - adult arrived from W ; Chaffinch - 1 - female feeding fledged juv ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - roadside ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling around Ocean View in the evening
• Rivelin: Mandarin - 2 - 2 males on pond below post office ; Dipper - 1 - At cafe
• Roundwood Golf course: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 8 - feeding on fairways; probably birds from adjacent Liberty Steel site ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 2 - singing from r/way line pond ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling on Pingle Lane Tip ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 8 - 4 singing main woods, 2 singing woodland south of Hollings Lane, 2 singing r/way line ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Lapwing - 2 - pair over fields to north of woods
• Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Whitethroat - 17 - total of 17 singing on pit top from Hollings Lane entrance to Flanderwell end ; Lesser Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Canada Goose - 2