Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 2 ; Lapwing - 20+ ; 319 - 2 ; Goosander - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair present on river since January

Peat Pits: Lapwing - 10 - Circling above cross roads by Peat Pits farm and down the hill towards Tinkerbrook farm. With pair of Curlew ; Curlew - 2 ; Golden Plover - 150+ - In the air around Peat pits area

R Don, Deepcar: Dipper - 2 - a pair near Station Rd

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 169+ ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 72 - Roosted ; Ringed Plover - 1

Rockingham Wood: 319 - 2 - Together low over N end of wood. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Scholes Coppice: Stock Dove - 2 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Robin - 4+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - song and calls

Scholes Ground: Lapwing - 1 - displaying

Silverwood Lagoon: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in Round Wood (Cenotaph Wood). Earliest-ever for site ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; Herring Gull - 4 - party east ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying over farmland to west ; Siskin - 2

Storrs Dike: Skylark - 3+ - Singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Redwing - 1+ ; 319 - 1 ; Mallard - c60

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 74 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Fieldfare - C30 ; Redwing - 8 ; Blackbird - 18 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Displaying ; 319 - 2 ; Linnet - C30 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Mute Swan - 74 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 44 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - C300 ; Sand Martin - 350+ - Birds building up all morning ; Swallow - 4 ; House Martin - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Blackcap - 4 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1m

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 60+ - Possibly close to 200 between Upper and Low Common (SK3996).

West Wood, Tankersley: Jay - 9 - Single noisy group left wood and flew towards Wortley.

Wet Shaw: Curlew - 90+

Wharncliffe Chase: Kestrel - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Skylark - c20 - Intermittent song ; Fieldfare - c45 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Starling - c100 ; Stock Dove - 3 - Pair + another display flight ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Curlew - 3 ; Redwing - c40 ; 319 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Linnet - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Lapwing - 3

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Crossbill - 1 - flew over heath calling

Whirlowbrook Hall: Mandarin - 8 - 6m 2f on lake

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - 30+ ; Snipe - 2+ - chipping and drumming at dusk

Agden Res: White-fronted Goose - 1 - 1w still with Greylag flock on dam wall at 13:50 ; Greylag Goose - c150