Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - juv ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Cormorant - 3 - circled & left SW, returning NE later ; Reed Warbler - 3+ - singing males; lots of calling from marginal vegetation ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - inc a juv ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Jay - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Whitethroat - 3 - inc 2 singing males ; Linnet - 4 - inc singing male ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Sand Martin - 2

Waverley: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adult and 3cy ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult with crippled leg ; Ringed Plover - 3 - adults ; Kestrel - 1

Whiston: Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing on Guithwaite Common Lane 08.15 ; Linnet - 04-Jun ; Goldfinch - 04-Jun ; Whitethroat - 2 - 1 singing, nr junction of Guithwaite Common Lane/ Pleasley Road 08.45

Barlow Common: 319 - 5

Curbar Gap: Stonechat - 3 - Adult male with two juvs

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 - Again this morning at 7.30am

Hathersage: Grey Wagtail - 1

Malin Bridge: House Sparrow - 13 - on Nyger feeder, at least 5 juvs

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - Adults ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 470 ; Black-headed Gull - 14 - All adults ; Grey Heron - 1 - Immature ; Curlew - 13 ; Peregrine - 1 - Juvenile. Harassed gulls loafing on water unsuccessfully for five minutes before drifting off west

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3rd summer later on Waverley ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 4 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - east

Rawmarsh; High Street: Common Buzzard - 1 - drifted low to N @ 1655hrs

Redmires Middle Res: Black-headed Gull - 14 - roosted ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - probable (adult) but left before identification confirmed ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Curlew - 6 - roosted ; Tufted Duck - 1 - female

Waverley: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - 2, ad & 3rd yr bird on Finnegan construction site.

Barlow Common: 319 - 01-Feb ; Swallow - 12 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 06-Aug ; Song Thrush - 1

Bradwell: Swift - 15

Leadmill Bridge: Mandarin - 18+ - 4+ in water near bridge plus 14 on bank about 200 yds upstream. ; Canada Goose - 42 - 42 together on river about 300-400 yds upstream of bridge. ; Dipper - 2

Linacre: 319 - 1

Linacre Res: Kingfisher - 1

Middleton Moor: Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult ; Curlew - 7

Pebley Pond: Little Egret - 2 - First for five years ; Mute Swan - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Canada Goose - 28 ; Grey Heron - 2

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult on roof ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c40 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - c50 - c10 juvs

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 10 - roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 13 - roosted ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - over at dusk, no large gulls roosting ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - heard reeling ; Mallard - 3+ - including female with 2 fresh ducklings

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 4 - female with 3 fresh ducklings

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 7 ; Mute Swan - 38 - inc.2j (24left w) ; Tufted Duck - 35 - inc 1y 7f ; 319 - 2 - singles ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - attacking finch flock ; Kestrel - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 7 ; Carrion Crow - 13 - 3pr have raised 7y 3-2-2 ; House Sparrow - 10+ - feeding in wheatfield ; Goldfinch - 110+ - inc.flocks of 60-40 lots of jvs

Waverley: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - limping adult ; Ringed Plover - 5 - adults

Firsby Res: Mallard - 1 - F ; 319 - 1 - High over site. ; Kestrel - 4+ - Family party with fledged Juvs. ; Swift - 1 ; Swallow - 10+ - Feeding above cottage ; House Martin - 5+ - With Swallows.