Sightings Archive

Graves Park: Wren - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Swift - 1 ; Swift - 1 over

Greystones garden: Blue Tit - 2 - 1 Juvenile - 1st of year ; Great Tit - 2 - 1 Juv

Hangingwater garden: Blackbird - 3+ - male succesfully coaxing out at least one fledgeling

High Bradfield: Blue Tit - 2+ - In St Nicolas's Church yard. Parents taking food into nest box

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - Seen and heard last 3 days

Norton Lees: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling - old quarry site, Derbyshire Lane

Orgreave Lakes: Song Thrush - 3 - Singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Skylark - 7 - Singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 24 - 1 Juv ; Pochard - 23 ; Swallow - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 40+ ; Reed Bunting - 8 - Singing ; Black-headed Gull - 14 - 5 Juv ; House Martin - 6+ ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15 ; Redshank - 2 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Swift - 10+ ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - 1 Juv ; Wigeon - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Mallard - 18+ - 18 ducklings over 3 broods ; Canada Goose - 220+ - 15+ Juv ; Coot - 1+ - 1+ Juv ; Mute Swan - 10+ - 4 cygnets - juv Great Crested Grebe in foreground ; 324 - 1+ - Banded demoiselle ; 324 - 100+ - Common Blue Damselfly - mating

Oughtibridge: Oystercatcher - 3 - calling and turning west at the bottom of Cockshutts Lane at 08:35

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 73

Rawmarsh; High Street: Swift - 25-30 - wheeling overhead for several minutes around 0815hrs before dispersing

Redmires Bottom Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - In flight heading west ; Curlew - 3 - In fields above res

Redmires conduit: Snipe - 5 - Two in flight ; Curlew - 6+ ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 8+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Redmires Middle Res: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard towards plantation ; Snipe - 3 - Heard in fields above ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 3+ ; Redshank - 1 ; Curlew - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Coal Tit - 2 - pair with at least 3 recently fledged juvs.

Rod Moor: Hobby - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair

Woodhouse Tip: Cormorant - 2 - West at 08.20 ; Skylark - 7+ - 3 singing males. ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Male on the footpath. ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Male singing in the meadows at 04:20.

Brightholmlee: House Sparrow - 05-Jun ; Swallow - 4

Burton St, Hillsborough: Swift - c25 - Flying over area during rain 17.30

Carrhouse Meadows/Brightholmlee: Red Kite - 1 - flying over fields ; Jay - 1 ; 319 - 1 - over morehall res ; Magpie - 7 ; Rook - 10+ ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Mallard - 7 - pair of adults plus 5 ducklings ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - giving alarm calls from oak tree later saw squirell in same tree ; Willow Warbler - 04-May - singing males ; Chaffinch - 4+ ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Great Tit - 1

Falconer Wood: Jay - 3

Hail Mary woods: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2

Herringthorpe playing fields: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c40 - feeding on amenity grassland ; Jackdaw - c30 - feeding on amenity grassland inc noisy, dependent juvs

High Green: Hobby - 1 - 8.3 ; Siskin - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 - made several attempts to settle and feed around both lake perimeters but unable to so due to number of dogs off leads and off main paths.