Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Greenfinch - 2 ; Little Egret - 1 - Single bird feeding on main lake beside the weir. ; 321 - 1 - Single bird feeding down stream side of weir. ; Wheatear - 4 - 4 male birds north end main lake ; Wheatear - 3 - 2 male Greenland + 1 Female Prob Greenland Bird ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 ; Shoveler - 1 - Male ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Green Sandpiper - 1 - still present till 15.00 at least ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - inc 1 male White Wagtail ; Green Sandpiper - 1 - photo with Common Sandpiper

R Don, Effingham St: Sand Martin - 4 - Landing on stone wall ; Sand Martin - 4 - Flying into metal drainage pipe to nest site in stone wall.

Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 6 ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Stonechat - 1 - m

Redmires Bottom Res: Chaffinch - 5 - Singing ; Greylag Goose - 26 ; Canada Goose - 5 ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - Singing ; Goldfinch - 5 - Singing ; Blackbird - 2 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Feeding on ground ; Curlew - 4 - Calling. 1 flying over Res ; Pheasant - 1 - Calling ; Swallow - 3

Redmires Middle Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5+ - Singing ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - On moor to south of Res. Calling for almost an hour. Observed flying between small trees. Mobbed by small birds when perched. ; Lapwing - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - at 1930hrs

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 30 - c. including 3 prs with young (6,4 & 3) ; Moorhen - 1 - on nest by Top Res ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 3 prs on Middle Res ; Oystercatcher - 2 - Pair on Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 7 - 3 prs displaying + 1 flew high to the N at 07:01 hrs ; Red Kite - 1 - flew E at 07:15 hrs ; Raven - 2 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - reeling by Middle Res ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing by Bottom Res ; Willow Warbler - 24 - singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling by Top Res ; Swallow - 2 ; Siskin - 2 ; Redstart - 2 - singing

Redmires Top Res: Chaffinch - 7+ - Singing ; Greylag Goose - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard drilling. Not seen ; Dunnock - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 12+ - Singing ; Curlew - 4 - Calling ; Goldfinch - 2 - Singing ; Robin - 2 - Singing ; Wren - 3 - Singing ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - Pair courting display ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - Another photo ; Wheatear - 3

Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 5 - feeding on ridge ; Wheatear - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Rother Valley CP: Little Ringed Plover - 2 - Meadowgate Lake

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 1 - m ; Reed Bunting - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Dunlin - 1 - on northern shoreline briefly at 08.30 ; House Martin - 6 - gathering mud from pools at southern end ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - north ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Little Grebe - 8

Thrybergh CP: Gadwall - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Shoveler - 2 pair ; Blackcap - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Sand Martin - 8 ; Swallow - 3 ; House Martin - 2 ; Swift - 4 - First this year ; Carrion Crow - 53 - Feeding in East fields after muck spreading ; Jackdaw - 18 - In with crows ; Reed Bunting - 2

Tyzack*s Dam: Red Kite - 1 - High over West. ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - 1

Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 3 - Back in outbuilding where they nested last year.

White Lee Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - singing

Broadhead Clough: Ring Ouzel - 2 - males

Dog KennelPond: Gadwall - 2 - 1 pair, W end, near overflow. ; Herring Gull - 15