Sightings Archive

Peat Pits: Fieldfare - c100 - single flock heading north.

Ravenfield Park: Red Kite - 1 - Circling high over going North @ 15:30hrs. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - Singing and feeding in Silver Birch. ; 319 - 3 - Calling, overhead together. ; Grey Heron - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 6 - soaring low overhead for several minutes around 1335hrs before dispersing

Scholes Paddock: Skylark - 1 - singing

Seymour Link: Snipe - 17 ; Jack Snipe - 2

Slitting Mill Farm: Green Sandpiper - 1 - on flooded horse field across from the farm ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; 320 - 16 ; Wigeon - 32

Stanley Hill: Linnet - C 20

Storrs: Little Owl - 1 - calling

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 1 ; House Sparrow - 26 ; Magpie - 24 ; Jay - 5

Thorpe Hesley: 319 - 5 - circling over and calling

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 88 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; 320 - 4 - 2 pair ; Shoveler - 1 m ; Gadwall - 2 ; Coot - c30 - One bird with white darvik ring(FAL) ; 319 - 8+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 64 - Small movement north early morning in small groups ; Black-headed Gull - C400 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Common Gull - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Blackbird - 12 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 26 ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 ; Skylark - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 3

Ulley: Fieldfare - 100+ - in field overlooking S end of reservoir. ; Skylark - 6 - 5 singing , pair in display flight 13.50 off Guithwaite Common Lane ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 - 2 pairs ; 319 - 1 - Over field off Pleasley Road opposite res, 14.40

Ulley Res: Mute Swan - 4 - 2 ad + 2 juv ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 - 5 pairs ; Gadwall - 1 ; Coot - 10+ - 2 on nests, 2 males fighting with female observing

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 3 - Together, drifted over Rockingham Wood ; Lapwing - 3 - displaying ; Red-legged Partridge - 3+ ; Kestrel - 1 - female hunting ; Woodpigeon - 200+ - scattering in several flocks into Rockingham Wood from stubble ; Dunnock - 1 - singing above ditch adj f/p. ; Blackbird - 1 - in gorse above ditch. ; Linnet - 40+

Walkley garden: Long-tailed Tit - 1 - Taking spider webs from window ; Goldfinch - 2 - Collecting dry plant material

Waverley Estate: Golden Plover - 63 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Lapwing - 5

Wharncliffe Chase: 319 - 7 - 4 seen together, 2 interacting in field ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Meadow Pipit - 365 - North 07:00-08:45 ; Red Kite - 1 - 07:45 to 08:00. Alighted from farmland near Wortley with constant mobbing from a crow. Slowly circled over the area before drifting towards Stocksbridge. ; Peregrine - 1 - 08:15 - flew lowish from WC and over fields by Wortley ; Cormorant - 1 - north ; Skylark - 3 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Fieldfare - 8 ; 319 - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 3 ; Grey Heron - 4 - 1>S, 2>S, 1>W ; Starling - 4 - 3>W, 1>NW ; Lapwing - 3 ; Curlew - 1

Aldwarke: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over Asda car park @ 1020hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Raven - 1 - briefly, low over complex

Apperknowle: Song Thrush - 1 heard ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Skylark - 2 singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 drumming

Barley Hole Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Redwing - 70+ ; 319 - up to 5 - at least three separate individuals ; Raven - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4