Sightings Archive

Ughill Moor: Meadow Pipit - 5 - inc 1 food carrying. ; Curlew - 25 - single group in sheep field, presumed non / failed breeders ?.

Wharncliffe Chase: 319 - 1

Wharncliffe Chase + woodland fringe: Willow Warbler - 17 - singing ; Blackcap - 10 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 3+ - singing ; Swallow - 3 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 6 - incl. first fledgling ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 11 - Pair taking food to nest ; Reed Bunting - 8 - singing ; Linnet - 17 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ - Display/song plus other seen carrying food ; Lapwing - 1 ; Skylark - 15 - Plenty singing plus one fledgling seen ; Curlew - 1 ; Stonechat - Pair ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - Pair - Seen leaving suitable nest hole ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Redstart - 2 - singing ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Starling - 5 - incl juvs ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing

Wharncliffe Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - Sat about 1 metre off the ground. Lots of alarm calls from other birds ; Treecreeper - 2

Wickersley: Sparrowhawk - 2 - one in Wickersley Wood, 1 over Liner Wood ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - near Slack's Farm ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - in horse paddock with 2 RLP ; Grey Partridge - 2 - in horse paddock with a singing RLP

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Arbourthorne: Mallard - 7 - 1 fem 6 male no evidence of breeding here. ; Moorhen - 6+ - 2 adults 4+chicks ; Starling - 40+ - adults+juvs using fields around pond. ; Woodpigeon - 10 ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Blackbird - 3 - in hedge bordering pond ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - around pond ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - coming to food scraps with LBBGs near pond ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Barbrook Plantation: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - presumed pair

Bolehill Flash: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - male reeling adjacent to the path ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 4+ - Male feeding 2+ fledged young plus a further territorial male.

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Catcliffe Flash: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Mallard - 1+ - ad + 6 Duckings ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 - On nest ; Sand Martin - 5+

Chatsworth Park: Kingfisher - 1 - flying downriver carrying a fish ; Swift - 40+

Damflask Res: Swift - 200+

Denaby Common: Woodpigeon - c180 - feeding in fields ; Stock Dove - 9+ - with WP flock ; Shoveler - 1 - drake ; Whooper Swan - 1 - adult, on floodwater ; Greylag Goose - 10+ - #NAME? ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 29+ - + at least 4 broods ; Skylark - present - good numbers, presumably helped by young, spring-sown crops this year

Elsecar Res: Mute Swan - 9 - pair + 7 cygnets ; Mallard - 8+ - Female + 7 ducklings ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair ; Coot - 2+ - adult + juv ; Common Tern - 2 ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing male

Firsby Res: Swift - 500+ - large numbers moving through site going North 500+ so far in large groups ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On stream near road. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Reed Bunting - 3+ - Calling.

Forge Dam: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - visible in hole high in ivy covered tree

Froggatt Bridge: Mandarin - 2 - Pair with 3 young ; Coot - 2 - Pair with at least 1 young in long grass

Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 2 - ads with 4 young ; Mallard - 8 - inc 2 females with a total of 9 young ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Reed Warbler - 2+ - singing from reedbed ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing by Top Res ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - singles ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 - pair and single singing male ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - heard overhead ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Linnet - 2