Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Dore garden: Brambling - 1 - female at feeders, 1st here in a while ; Siskin - 4 - 2m,2f at feeders

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 5 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - one singing ; Siskin - 1 - singing

Nether Green garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - Feeding. Chased away by territorial Blue Tits.

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 61+ ; Ringed Plover - 1 - North ; Little Egret - 1 ; Red Kite - 1 - South at 14:10 mobbed by 2 Buzzards. ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - 1 ; Sand Martin - 100 - At least 100 Mid-morning. ; Grey Partridge - 2 - On tip. ; Little Egret - 2 ; Curlew - 3 - Until 8.10 when flew north ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - North ; Blackcap - 1 - Between bridges

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 1 - song/aerial display

Redmires Top Res: Stonechat - 2 - pair up track to Stanedge Pole - male singing

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 30 ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Scaup - 1 - male displaying to female Tufted ; Gadwall - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Skylark - 8 ; Sand Martin - 500+ - Very good numbers in the rain early morning ; House Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing in caravan park ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling from old railway line ; Reed Bunting - 8

Tinsley: Sand Martin - 4+ - Flying over ; Swallow - 2+ - Flying over ; Lapwing - 4 - On former airfield ; Skylark - 1+ - Singing over former airfield ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Hear singing near former airfield

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 1 - singing male ; Stonechat - 2 - m and f ; Meadow Pipit - 6 - several parachuting

Canklow Woods: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male displaying ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying ; Common Buzzard - 4 - 4 in the air together at 1400

Elsecar Heritage Centre: Pied Wagtail - 1pr - in courtyard (bred last year)

Elsecar; Simon Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - circling low over

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Over early morning. ; Mallard - 2 - Males. ; Cormorant - 1 - Flushed by nearby shot gun blasts. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; 319 - 1 - Over set aside early morning. ; Fieldfare - 20+ ; Redwing - 9 ; Jay - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing at dawn. ; Chiffchaff - 4 - Singing. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Skylark - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male.

Hordron Edge: Osprey - 1 - flew towards Derwent

Loxley Valley: Siskin - 10+ - in trees on Low Matlock Lane

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; 320 - 16 ; Greylag Goose - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 3

Midhope: 322 - 1 - Large very white GYR FALCON being mobbed across the fields(Midhope Hall Lane) at 07:50. Assumed an escaped bird but jesses not obvious.

Moscar Fields: Short-eared Owl - 1

Norton Lees: 319 - 1 - Circling overhead

Rawmarsh; High Street: Pied Wagtail - 1 - f on roof of Earl Grey PH

Redmires: Goldcrest - 2 - At bottom of Stanage Pole track ; Siskin - 2 - Stanage Pole track

River Sheaf, Broadfield Road: Goosander - 1 - female. Unexpected and presumably first site record.

RVCP: Wigeon - 40 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Shoveler - 2 - pr

Scholes Coppice: Mandarin - 2 - pair up from "temporary" pond in N corner of wood,headed N over Cinder Hills. ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 7+ - at least 5 singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing, at Studmoor Road entrance ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ - song and calls,1 active near Studmoor Road entrance ; Jay - 2 - into wood from Keppels Field, quite vocal ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male