Sightings Archive

Miller*s Dale: Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Mandarin - 1f ; Mute Swan - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 - North at 07:55 ; Shoveler - 1 - Drake on small lake early morning ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Male singing and song flighting below weedy mound. ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Lapwing - 5 - 5 week old chicks on west shore of big lake. ; Wigeon - 1 - Drake

Peter Dale: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1

Ramsley Res: Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Adult carrying food

Rawmarsh: Greylag Goose - 9 - low to E @ 0745hrs ; Kestrel - 1 - m, soaring over

RVCP: Greylag Goose - 88 - 35 adults and 53 young

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Common Tern - 2 - a pair

Upper Ewden: Marsh Harrier - 1 - cream crown

Wentworth Lakes: 321 - 6 ; Cormorant - 1 - briefly. Flew N ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 47 - + 6 prs with 36 juvs ; Mallard - 6 - Fem with 24 ducklings ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Coot - 8 - + 2 prs bred with 6 chicks ; Moorhen - 1 - pr with 2 juvs ; Lapwing - 6 - over ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - On Dog Kennel pond ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Swift - 30 ; Skylark - 3 - Singing ; Swallow - 25 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - ad 's & 1 juv on Morley Pond ; Song Thrush - 3 - Singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 10+ - prs ; Linnet - 4 - prs

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1

Calver: HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - dark morph male over St Mary's Wood, circling and mobbed by Common Buzzards before drifting off N 09:45-09:55. ; HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - another photo

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 2 - drakes ; Kestrel - 1 - male

Hangingwater garden: Blue Tit - 2+ - Photo 1: worn out parent ; Blue Tit - 2+ - 2: a peek into the future ; Blue Tit - 2+ - 3: encouragement ; Blue Tit - 2+ - 4: on the runway ... but no flight tonight

Limb Valley: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - adults visiting nest (split quite low in trunk of tall beech)

Poolsbrook Marsh: Reed Warbler - 14 ; Sedge Warbler - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Willow Tit - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c90

R Don, Nofolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2s/3cy bird

Ramsley Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard calling ; Yellowhammer - 3+ ; Whinchat - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Curlew - 4 - Flying and calling ; 324 - 1 - Common Lizard

Rawmarsh: Greylag Goose - 2 - low to E @ 0855hrs

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: 321 - 1 - SW @ 07.15 ; Greylag Goose - 3 - SW @ 07.30 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 - N @ 17.05 ; Hobby - 1 - E @ 16.10 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - S

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling at edge of reeds in SE corner of lagoon. Presumed same as bird at Hollings Lane end of pit top which went quiet about a week ago

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2pr ; Mute Swan - 37 - inc.2ad4y ; Whooper Swan - 1 - pkgate bird ; Canada Goose - 16 ; Greylag Goose - 3 - inc.1past w ; Mallard - 10 - f+9chicks ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; 319 - 1 - n soar ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Wren - 15 - sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 18 - 17sing ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Whitethroat - 9 - 7sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - 2sing ; Great Tit - 13 - + inc.2fam.5+7+ ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing