Sightings Archive

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Goldfinch - 32 - on garden feeders

Silver Wood: Little Egret - 1 - west at 18.30

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Willow Warbler - 3 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Flew south at 18:31

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 1 - in observers garden

Canklow: Goldfinch - 29 - on garden feeders

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 3

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 3

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 700 ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 adults,1 3rd yr ; 320 - 3

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - by the Fir Vale entrance.

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad S @ 16.50 ; Common Tern - 1 - SW @ 16.15 ; Swift - 3 - SW @ 16.33 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - W @ 16.10

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 39 ; Tufted Duck - 51 ; 319 - 3 - over wood ne ; Lapwing - 90+ ; Black-headed Gull - 120 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past sw ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - call.from treetops ; Sand Martin - 100+ - feeding ; Swallow - 24+ - inc 4 south ; House Martin - 120+ - feeding. but gone by 0830 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - 1=3 past s ; Robin - 28 ; Blackbird - 20 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 26 ; Linnet - 150+ - inc flocks 120+ 20+ ; Goldfinch - 30+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2

Wadsley: House Martin - 7 - 2 ad + 5 juv. Seen regularly over last week over Overton Road.

Attercliffe: Collared Dove - 1 - nest building on Attercliffe road.

Edge Mount: Kestrel - 3 - hunting together over rough pasture . ; 319 - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling from copse . ; Whinchat - 1 - sat on wall.

Firsby Res: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Hobby - 1 - Briefly over main Res scattering Swallows and Martins. ; Wheatear - 2 - feeding on ploughed field. ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Large Female hunting along hedgerow. ; Blackcap - 1 ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Mallard - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ - Singles over calling. ; House Martin - c50 - Large numbers feeding over adjacent fields and paddocks with Swallows. ; Swallow - c30 ; Goldfinch - 10+ - feeding on Thistles on Dam wall ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Morehall Res: Pied Wagtail - 5 - foreageing under stones onshore ; 321 - 3 - one adult and two juveniles ; Mallard - 20+ ; Moorhen - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Goldfinch - 40+ - large flock in trees at neck end of reservoir ; Wren - 2 ; Robin - 2 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Redshank - 5 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swift - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 30 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - south

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Swift - 1 - SW & 16.02

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Grey Heron - 2 - stood in field ; Mute Swan - 39 - inc.2jv now independent ; Canada Goose - 47 - inc 46 in frm s ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Lapwing - 80 - + ; Redshank - 1 - on front ; Black-headed Gull - 120+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - past s ; Swift - 2 ; Sand Martin - 80+ - feeding ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - 100+ - feeding but gone by 0830 ; Meadow Pipit - 14 - light passage s ; Wren - 8