Sightings Archive

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 6+ - Family parties

Kiveton Community Woodland: Green Woodpecker - 1 - juvenile heard and seen flying round

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 3 - On small lake mid morning ; Common Scoter - 1 - Drake on big lake early morning ; Common Sandpiper - 6 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 - Juvs ; Black-tailed Godwit - 11 - Circled site at 08:25 then left east. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - juvenile flew down river by bridge. ; Whimbrel - 1 - flew N calling before returning S at 0850.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 26+ - + 1 cygnet ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Whitethroat - 1

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 10 - SW ; Swift - 13 - 3 N; 2 S; 8 SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - NE ; Linnet - 9 - W/NW ; Greenfinch - 5 - W ; Mallard - 7 - NW ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Wren - breeding confirmed - adult feeding 1+ juv

Parkgate; Barbot Hall Industrial Estate: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1005hrs

Parkgate; Forge Way: Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Blackcap - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 35 - inc 8 juvs

R Don, Effingham St: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - Juveniles, 1 fully grown, but 2 recently fledged, not fully grown, and with plumage staining, washing on weir. Very probably locally bred. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 juveniles and a second summer in the evening.

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Greylag Goose - 1 - E ; 319 - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Peregrine - 1 - m drifted NW carrying prey @ 13.37 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - S ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - imm SW @ 14.10 ; Common Tern - 2 - SW low over playing field @ 19.00 ; Stock Dove - 1 - N

Rivelin Valley: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Swift - 3 ; Swallow - 01-Feb ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - 5

Roundwood Golf course: Blackcap - 4+ - inc singing male ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 14 - left SW ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Coal Tit - 1

RVCP, Fishing Lake: Grey Wagtail - 1

RVCP, Main Lake: Common Sandpiper - 1

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Little Egret - 1 ; 320 - 1

Silver Wood: Grey Heron - 1 - Woodlaithes duckpond

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 11 - pair +9 juvs ; Snipe - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - west ; Peregrine - 1 - NW at 09.30 - presumably same as TCP ; Reed Bunting - 6 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - feeding on early supply of rowan berries ; Jay - 10 ; House Martin - c20 ; Swallow - 6 ; Goldfinch - c30 - widespread round site in small parties ; 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - part s/plumage ; Cormorant - 7 - 2jv ; Mute Swan - 42 - inc.2y lot of ad now flightless ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - circled attacked w/pigs. left n 0938 prob jv ; Black-headed Gull - 60 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 ; Common Tern - 1 - Ad ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - 1sing ; Whitethroat - 11 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - 1sing ; Chiffchaff - 24 - 1sing ; Reed Warbler - 6 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Great Tit - 12 ; Blue Tit - 12 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 5 ; Little Grebe - 1 - Jv ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 3