Sightings Archive

Parkgate: Swallow - 2+ - with HM flock

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 28 - @05.20 from basin to footbridge.

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Sparrowhawk - 2+ - fledged juvs calling continuously from woodland ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - 'alba' ssp, SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - SW ; Mallard - 7 - E/NE @ 0705hrs ; Sand Martin - c20 - over briefly ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - singles NE, SW & SE

Ramsley Moor: Spotted Flycatcher - 4 ; Redstart - 1 ; Whinchat - 4 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2

Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair soaring high over at 1035hrs ; Swift - 2 - feeding over

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling ; Kestrel - 1 - f/juv hunting over adjacent field ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - N

Redmires Res: Tree Pipit - 2 - singles flew S ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - family party by Top Res ; Willow Warbler - 12 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - juv on Top Res ; Black-headed Gull - 25 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 65 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad ; Herring Gull - 12 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling by Middle Res

Roundwood Golf course: Sparrowhawk - 1 - f/juv ; Kestrel - 1 - over to NW from direction of Liberty Steel

Stanage Edge: Raven - 2

Stocksbridge: Nuthatch - 1 - obs only second garden record

White Edge Moor: Merlin - 1 - Male landed on low wall on stretch between Curbar and White Edge in pursuit of Meadow Pipits.

Aston: Hobby - 1 - took a Swallow - Aston Hall Cricket Club

Attercliffe: Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adults on roof at Warren Street ; Herring Gull - c10 - 2 adults and several juvs around ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 30+ - several juvs and a Norwegian 3cy ringed near Bergen in 2019. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult Warren St

Burbage Valley: Spotted Flycatcher - 3 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 3 - Another photo

Harthill Res: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - at 08:40 ; Little Egret - 3

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Redstart - 1 - f/juv at SW corner

Malin Bridge: Swift - 33

Midhope Res: Goosander - 14 - flew NNE at 07:05 ; Swallow - 10+ ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - c60 - influx ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Jay - 5 - family group ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2+ ; Greylag Goose - 123+ ; 319 - 5 - family group calling ; 320 - 2 ; Little Grebe - 15 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 - several juvs ; Mallard - 66 ; Moorhen - 4 - incl 3 juvs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - fem/imm

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow Wagtail - 9 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - juv

Porter Brook, General Cemetery: Dipper - 1

Ramsley Moor: Whinchat - 3 ; Stonechat - 10 ; Redstart - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2

Redmires Middle Res: Wheatear - 1

White Path Moss: Raven - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+

Blacka Moor: Wheatear - 2 - Juveniles ; Wheatear - 2 - Juveniles ; Whitethroat - 1

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 6 - 6 in the air at 1050

Hurlfield: Swift - 4 - 3 at 18:07 +1 at 19:17 all North over observers house

Lodge Moor/Redmires: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult with mixed gull flock in sheep field north of Brown Hills Lane near Peat Farm at 13.45hrs

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 55 ; Black-headed Gull - 235 ; Ringed Plover - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 3 - feeding around smaller lake. ; Stock Dove - 6 - feeding on west side main lake. ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - in at 06:35 then east ; Pochard - 32 ; Yellow Wagtail - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 73 ; Swift - 8