Sightings Archive

Monday 10th May 2021

• Centenary Riverside: Sand Martin - 2 - Feeding on top pond
• Chapeltown: Swift - 4 - Checking out traditional nest site
• Crowhole: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Swallow - up to 3
• Foulstone Delph: Stonechat - 2 ; 319 - 1
• Fox House: Curlew - 3 - over field opp pub
• Greystones garden: Starling - 9 - 3 Juveniles in observer's garden
• Hoober Stand: Red Kite - 1
• Killamarsh: Swift - at least 19 - Group flying south west on direct flight path following heavy rain, viewed from observers house.
• Kimberworth: Goldfinch - 2 - Adult and juvenile on garden seed feeder. First fledgling seen in the garden so far this spring.
• Midhope Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling 20.15
• Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - 5 ; Swallow - 4 ; Lapwing - 6 - Pair mobbing male Pheasant ; Curlew - 4
• Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 1 - churring briefly @ 21.14
• Orgreave: Reed Bunting - 2+ ; Reed Bunting - 2+ - another photo
• Orgreave Lakes: Knot - 1 - Summer-plumaged bird, with damaged eye, still present early morning. ; Knot - 1 - 2nd photo ; Knot - 1 - Photo showing damaged eye ; Dunlin - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Knot - 1 - Feeding alongside 2 Dunlin ; Dunlin - 2 - 2 birds feeding alongside single Knot ; Skylark - 20+ ; Knot - 1 ; Knot - 1 - photo ; Dunlin - 2 ; Little Stint - 1 - still present to 19.15 hrs at least ; Knot - 1 - still present at 20.15hrs ; Greylag Goose - 1+ - including brood of 4 plus 1 with adoptive Mallard family (female + 7 young) ; Ringed Plover - 1 - tundrae/psammodromus 'tundra' type ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing end of Washford Lane ; Yellow Wagtail - 02-Mar ; Knot - 1 - still present tonight, right eye looking OK. ; Little Stint - 1 - summer plumaged bird this afternoon ; Little Stint - 1 - flight shot
• Owlthorpe: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Another pic
• R Don, Stephenson Road: Wheatear - 1 - male
• R Rother, Bolehill: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling at 08.00 and again at 11.00 from hawthorns alongside reedbed.
• Shepherd*s Plantation: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling, high over wood.
• Snake Pass: Blackbird - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Coal Tit - 6 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - female ; Curlew - 3 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Goldcrest - 7 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 9 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Redstart - 1 ; Robin - 9 ; Siskin - 9 ; Skylark - 2 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 14 ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Wren - 14
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 68+8y ; Swift - 22 ; Swallow - C30 ; Sand Martin - C40 ; House Martin - 15 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 6 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2
• Treeton Dyke: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; LONG-TAILED DUCK - 0 - no sign tonight
• Tyzack*s Dam: Tufted Duck - 2 - Male and female on the water.
• Wadsley: Swift - 3 - Appeared to fly under a rainbow's arch
• Wadsley Common garden: Swift - 1 - Over-first of the year here.
• Wentworth Estate: Red Kite - 1
• Wharncliffe Chase (south) + woodland fringe: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - 5 sub-ads + 1 ad west ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Blackcap - 7 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 8 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 8 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3 males ; Stonechat - 2 - Cracking males ; Linnet - 18 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Briefly reeling