Sightings Archive

Ravenfield Park: Great Tit - 4 - Juveniles with L.T.T.s ; Blue Tit - 3 - With Tit flock. ; Mallard - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Robin - 8 ; Blackbird - 6 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling

Woodseats: Swift - 50+ - Very active feeding flock above Chantry Hotel

Malin Bridge: 319 - 1 - Circling high above Malin Bridge

Manor Fields Park.: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - still singing 05.45. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male in reedbed 06:00

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - Still present, associating with other non-breeding Grebes.

tinsley marshalling yard: Willow Warbler - 2 - 2 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing ; Common Buzzard - 1

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon @ 0545hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - adult preening on water tower ; Willow Warbler - 01-Feb - singing males ; Cormorant - 1 - on pylon

Ash Cabin Flat: Oystercatcher - 1 - over N ; Lapwing - 1 - over W ; Curlew - 1+ - calling towards conduit ; Black-headed Gull - 6 - over W

Beeley Wood: Red Kite - 1 - Flying overhead , heading south-east

Centenary Riverside: Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Gadwall - 8 - 1 Female with 7 large juveniles on pond. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - Brief song ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting near car park.

Dalton: Whitethroat - 3 - inc singing male ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing male

Damflask Res: Woodcock - 1 - roding up Loxley Valley and over resr ; Oystercatcher - 1 - at dusk

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing males ; Whitethroat - 1 - carrying food ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Skylark - 2 - singing males over adjacent fields ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 1pr+ - 2 small juvs ; Magpie - family party ; Long-tailed Tit - 9+ ; Gadwall - 3 - over; f on pond later ; Moorhen - 1+ - + 4 juvs

Firsby Res: Garden Warbler - 2 ; Mallard - 15 - 1 male, 3 females, one with 3 well grown duckling, one with 8 newly hatched ducklings ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Swallow - 6 ; House Martin - 8 - With Swallows ; Blackcap - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - In sluice.

Grange Park: Mallard - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Swift - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 1 ; Swallow - 4+ - several nests at old farm complex ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 7 - several juvs seen ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 2+ ; Blackbird - 6 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 7 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ - juvs heard throughout visit ; Great Tit - 1+ - adults and juvs ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 10+ ; Carrion Crow - 8 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Green Moor: Garden Warbler - 4+ - At least two pairs ; Garden Warbler - 4+ - photo ; Willow Warbler - 16+ - At least 8 pairs

Hangingwater garden: Bullfinch - 2 - pair on table, scared away by jay, in turn scared away by magpie

Peat Pits: QUAIL - 2 - two reported at Peat Pits Farm (one singing) at c22:00

R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing males ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Black-headed Gull - 5 - adults ; Cormorant - 2 - imms ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Moorhen - 1pr ; Mallard - 2 - drakes