Sightings Archive

Shillito Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4 - family group constantly calling. M &F and 1 juv seen ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4 - photo of juv

Silver Wood: Pink-footed Goose - c70 - SE at 11.20

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - past n ; Mute Swan - 34 ; Pink-footed Goose - 182 - high SE in 3 skeins c40 @ 0931; 62 @ 0949; c80 @1046 ; Canada Goose - 53 ; Tufted Duck - 59 ; 319 - 1 - sat in tree ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - with prey over s/end of site ; Lapwing - 61 - inc. 50 in fields ; Black-headed Gull - 850 - in /out of e/field( ploughing) ; Herring Gull - 2 - jv ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 48 - mix.a/j ; Sand Martin - 40 ; Swallow - 30 ; House Martin - 30 - all in large mixed hirundine flock and all gone by 10:00 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 31 ; Wheatear - 1 - distant prob jv ; Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 15 - 1sing ; Magpie - 16 ; Linnet - 100+ - flock ; Goldfinch - 80+ - flock ; Bullfinch - 5 - around site ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singles

Treeton Dyke: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing in vegetation at side of northern pond.

Barbrook Res: Goosander - 2 - redheads dropped onto Res at dusk.

Barnside Moor: Nightjar - 1 - flushed from road while driving home, very late record!

Bole Hill Rec: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Botanical Gardens: Woodpigeon - 6 - 1 ad + 5 juvs in close group

Cowell Flat: Barn Owl - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Pheasant - 10 ; Jackdaw - 1+

Firsby Res: Swallow - c20 - feeding ; Pink-footed Goose - c50 - Double Skein going over very high South- Easterly ; House Martin - c10 - with Swallows ; Kestrel - 2 - 1 mobbing Buzzard ; 319 - 2 ; Mallard - 3 ; Moorhen - 2

Fulwood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in observer's garden this morning ; House Martin - 1 - visiting nest site on Moorside still

Millhouses: Chiffchaff - 1 - In the observer's garden

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 20+ ; Mute Swan - 1

Onesmoor: Swallow - 58 - straggly group heading south at dusk , mainly juv's .

Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 - Juv. Then towards treeton dyke ; Little Egret - 1 - On island. ; Goosander - 3 - On island. ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Lapwing - 30+ - On island. ; Grey Heron - 4 - On island. ; Cormorant - 7 ; Wheatear - 1 - Along north shore

Poolsbrook CP: Great Crested Grebe - 16 - Ads & juvs

Ramsley Moor: Swallow - 200 - S-W in one hour; large movement of hirundines ; House Martin - 150 - S-W in one hour ; Stonechat - 1

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Swift - 1 - SW @ 15.54

Redmires: Hobby - 1 - Across middle res, then chasing hirundines near the edge of top res. ; Cormorant - 1 ; Lapwing - 60+ - Over middle res ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Swallow - 5+ ; House Martin - 5+ ; 319 - 1

Redmires conduit: Wheatear - 1 - on path

Silverwood: Gadwall - 5 ; Mute Swan - 11 - pair and 9 juvs ; Wheatear - 1 - on bare ground at southern end ; Canada Goose - c80 ; Rook - 9 - in stubble field adjacent to western paddocks ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - c12 - a scattering of singles around pit top

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 5 - 4ad1j ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 37 - inc 10left w ; Canada Goose - 44 - inc 17in fields ; Pink-footed Goose - 71 - in 2 skeins east 30at 0853-41at 1006 ; Pochard - 3 - mff ; Tufted Duck - 37 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - ne ; Hobby - 1 - in from w then s at 0842