Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Blackbird - 16 - 15sing ; Blackcap - 8 - sing ; Whitethroat - 8 - 6sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 7 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing ; Blue Tit - 4 - inc pr feed.young in nest ; House Sparrow - 2

Wadsley Common garden: Whitethroat - 1 - Singing. First garden record in 21 years of recording.

Aston: Hobby - 1 - Chasing Swifts then flew east over the M1

Barlow Common: Tawny Owl - 1 - mobbed by other birds ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Swallow - 03-May ; 319 - 1 - also being mobbed, by a Crow

Bingham Park: Nuthatch - 1 - Visiting nest with food

Bramley: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - On OAP bungalow roof.

Canklow Woods: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - singing

Crimicar Drive Fulwood: Bullfinch - 1

Darnall: Peregrine - 1 - Flew south at 19.15

Elsecar Res: Common Tern - 2

Endcliffe Park: Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - Male & female on river between the ponds

Firsby Res: Mallard - 9 - Inc 6 ducklings. ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair feeding in sluice. ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Swallow - 6 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+

Orgreave Lakes: Little Stint - 1 - still present in the evening. ; Sanderling - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Arctic Tern - 20 ; Turnstone - 2 ; Little Stint - 1 - Still around big lake mid-afternoon

Silverwood Lagoon: Greenshank - 1 - on northern shoreline briefly at 06.50 then flew west ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling in Hollings Lane 'meadows'

Sothall: Great Tit - 2+ - Brood fledged from nest box early am. One day later than last year.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 22 ; Gadwall - 5 - 3m2f ; Tufted Duck - 117 - 7m4f ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 1ad1-2cy past e ; Tern sp (Common/Arctic) - 1 - call high up not sen ; Swift - 40 ; Sand Martin - 150 - + ; Swallow - 45 - circa ; House Martin - 15 - + ; Blackbird - 11 - sing ; Blackcap - 9 - sing ; Whitethroat - 8 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 7 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2-2call ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 2sing 1nest build. ; Sanderling - 1 - in from e 0815

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male singing in woodland next to the north heath area ; Blue Tit - 1+ - entering nest box with food ; Great Tit - 2+ - adults food carrying to nest box ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing

Wire Mill Dam: House Martin - 3

Barbrook Bridge: Whinchat - 2 - both showing v.well ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 5

Blacka Hill: Hobby - 1

Burbage Valley: Willow Warbler - 5 - singing males ; Swallow - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr ; Kestrel - 1pr ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - singing male ; Linnet - 2 ; House Martin - 1 - N ; Whinchat - 3 - singing males ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Siskin - frequent - overhead ; Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring together mid-morning

Canklow: 319 - 1 - Flew low over Centenary Way ; 319 - 1 - flew over Centenary Way 15.10

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Centenary Riverside: Whitethroat - 8 - Some singing and alarm call 06.15 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing and alarm call