Sightings Archive

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 3 - on pylon @ 1330hrs

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling

Holmebrook Valley Park: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 male heard and seen singing in scrub above lake ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Blackcap - 3+ ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - On lake ; Bullfinch - 1 - 1 male ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - still singing 18:30 - 19:20 ; Swift - 1

Hope Valley: Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Swallow - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Whimbrel - 1 - In at 06:55 then north at 07:05 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - Pair with 2 chicks on island ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 5 ; Redshank - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 22 ; Pochard - 1 - Drake ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 ; Greenshank - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 15 - Discovery Centre to Bole Hill Quarry: 11 singing males, 4 pairs, 3 of the 4 pairs seen actively nest building ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard calling ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Black Tern - 1 - at 1820hrs ; Black Tern - 1

Upper Burbage Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 1m,poss 1f ; Reed Bunting - 2m ; Stonechat - 1m

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Bolehill Flash: Reed Warbler - 2 - 2 singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - 1 singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing ; Kingfisher - 1 - 1 along the river ; Common Buzzard - 1

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 2 - m+f lower lake at 7:10 ; Grey Heron - 1 - lower lake

Firsby Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Mallard - 6 - 5 males 1 female a lot of noisy courtship and fighting. ; Gadwall - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male ; Garden Warbler - 4 ; Blackcap - 7 ; Whitethroat - 5 - singing and displaying ; Bullfinch - 2 - a pair, female carrying nest material to nest site ; Wren - 4 ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 10 - all males, females on nests? ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting ; Coot - 2 ; Robin - 8 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling ; Willow Warbler - c9 ; Chiffchaff - 7 ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 6 - in alders

Limb Valley: Wheatear - 2 - pair. Photo of male ; Wheatear - 2 - Photo of female ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Mandarin - 3 - all male

Manor Fields Park: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling at 05:35-06:15. ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 ; Hobby - 1 - flew low thru N/E at 06:00. ; Jay - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - at 16:10.

Mortimer House: Fieldfare - 1 - Watched feeding in field below house. Along with song thrushes black birds and wheatears!.

Norton Lees: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - over Thorpe House Rise

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Redshank - 7 ; Ringed Plover - 5 ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 - 1 large lake,2 on island with nest and poss.first young no sign of B.N.G.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 70-80 ; Mallard - c30 ; Black-headed Gull - 21 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2cy, back after its trip to Orgreave ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Mute Swan - 86 - inc 29 2cy @ 1615hrs; no signs of itinerant Whooper!

R Don, Attercliffe: Herring Gull - 25+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20+