Sightings Archive

Sunday 29th April 2018

• Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 3 ; Shelduck - 2
• Midhope: Common Buzzard - 4 ; Red Kite - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Curlew - 30 - 1 party of 16 north + 7 other territorial pairs.
• Nether Haugh; Clay Hills: Lapwing - 1 - displaying over arable ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Mallard - 1pr ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• New Stubbin colliery site: Chiffchaff - 4 - inc 3 singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 5 - inc one singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing
• Orgreave Lakes: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2+ ; Ruff - 1 - still present ; Great Crested Grebe - 19 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Wheatear - 6 ; Goosander - 1 ; Whimbrel - 1 - ENE at 09:50 ; Common Sandpiper - 5 ; Swift - 20+ ; Swallow - 45+ ; House Martin - 5+ ; Sand Martin - 8+ ; Redshank - 1 ; Kestrel - 1
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1030hrs ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Cormorant - 1 - high to E @ 1048hrs
• Parkgate; Barber*s Avenue: Whitethroat - 1 - singing
• R Derwent, Chatsworth: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - among Canada Geese on river bank
• Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 2 - one displaying and singing and showing very well ; Whinchat - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Skylark - 01-Feb ; Linnet - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - pair ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 01-Feb
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 1+ - chick photographed from the path.
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 10 - in fields ; Greylag Goose - 6 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2 pairs ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Golden Plover - 20 - c. in fields ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 8 ; Wheatear - 10 - inc at least 3 males showing characteristics of Greenland race ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male - very scarce up here this year
• Rocher head: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male.
• Roundwood Golf course: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Shillito Wood: Curlew - 1 - bubbling to east ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Woodpigeon - 2+ ; Robin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 1 ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 3 - a pair + 1 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2+ ; Reed Bunting - 4+
• Silver Wood/Old Ravenfield: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling briefly on Pingle Lane Tip
• Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 15 ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 2pr +1m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f past ne ; Kestrel - 2 - mf ; Pheasant - 5 - crow ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - inc.1ad se+1 2cy in ; Arctic Tern - 7 - past nne 0842 ; Swift - 10 ; Sand Martin - 40+ ; Swallow - 25+ ; House Martin - 30+ ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Wren - 10 - sing ; Dunnock - 11 - 9sing ; Robin - 12 - 8sing ; Song Thrush - 5 - 3sing ; Blackbird - 13 - 5sing