Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Linnet - 20+ - small groups widespread on pit top, several singing males

Stoney Middleton: Chiffchaff - 1 - heard from riverside path between Stoney & Calver

Thrybergh CP: Scaup - 1 - male ; Water Rail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c300 ; Herring Gull - 20 - One bird with abnormal bill ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5+

Totley, Moss Road: Wheatear - 2 - Male & (poss) female ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing

Ughill Moors: Peregrine - 1 - immature over Stake Hill Road ; Lapwing - 8 - mobbing Buzzard in field ; 319 - 6 - up together in general area ; Oystercatcher - 2 - in fields Hoar Stones/Wet Shaw. ; Merlin - 1 - ad male over fields at Wet Shaw.

Wentworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing from Wood adj Deer Shed ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing from Wood adj Deer Shed ; Robin - 1+ - singing from Wood adj Deer Shed

Agden Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - foraging in close-mown grassland on top of dam embankment.

Barlow: Yellowhammer - 1 ; 319 - 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Pheasant - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Linnet - c. 14 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2

Cowell Flat: Snipe - 2 - drumming ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling in isolated hawthorn

Dore: Chiffchaff - 1

Green Moor: Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair, first for some time ; Little Owl - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - photo ; Grey Partridge - 2 - photo ; Grey Partridge - 2 - photo

Kimberworth Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing, behind Remount Road, briefly onto Grey Hill

Langsett Res: Oystercatcher - Pair

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Snipe - 04-May - Chipping/chasing in flight ; Curlew - c5 ; Lapwing - c40 - Several more north of area but outside SBSG recording area ; Fieldfare - c40 ; Jay - 2

Midhope Hall Lane: Curlew - 29 - 15.45

Midhope Res: Greylag Goose - 53+ ; Canada Goose - 53+ - Probably many more but hidden ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 4 males ; Moorhen - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - Brief display ; Oystercatcher - Pair

Midhopestones: Curlew - 23 - Including a ringed bird ringed by Devon & Cornwall RG ; Skylark - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 1

Nell Croft/Stony Ridge: Wheatear - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 2 ; Stonechat - 4 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - Male along track to Waverley Estate at 07:20.

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c 500

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Chaffinch - 2 - males, 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling high over ; Treecreeper - 2 - presumed pair, male singing ; Coal Tit - 1pr ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Kestrel - 1 - female, on wires ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - heading N ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - high over, heading S/SW ; Jackdaw - 6 - circling over in pairs, calling excitedly ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed from edge of small pond

Redmires conduit: Greylag Goose - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Lapwing - 8 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Ringinglow: Curlew - 1 - In field to W of Fulwood Lane. Tentative display flight.

Rocher Head Fields: Wheatear - 2 - pair on walls ; Curlew - 2

Roughwood Rec: 319 - 2 - pair? together over field,possibly interacting with one from Shepherd,s Plantation?

Rowland: 319 - 4 - Soaring together

RVCP: Whooper Swan - 10 - 10 flew wnw and the single resident bird still down ; Curlew - 1