Sightings Archive

Langsett: Snipe - 5 - 4 seen together, drumming. Record shot ; Lapwing - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Great Tit - 6 - Family group, 4 juv

Limb Valley, Bole Hill: Red Kite - 1 - Flying over in general direction of Fulwood

Lodge Moor: Tree Sparrow - 3 - adults at W end of Lodge Moor Road, one flying off into adjacent fields, presumably to feed

Orgreave Lakes: Kingfisher - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - Male on east shore ; Avocet - 2 - On island

Oughtibridge garden: Siskin - 1 - Female

Ramsley Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Whinchat - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - carrying food ; Robin - 1 - carrying food

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Swallow - 1 - N @ 1328hrs

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 6 - 2 pairs of adults with one chick each.

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 5 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - singing nr SW corner of dam

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 3 - Two adults and 1 newly fledged on stone near nest.

Rud Hill: Curlew - 4 - 2 pairs ; Lapwing - 8 - 4 pairs ; Swift - 4 - NE ; Snipe - 1 - on post

Stubley Hollow: Little Owl - 1 juv - First since July 2019 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 2

Tyzack*s Dam: Coot - 4 - 3 adult,1 young ; Woodpigeon - 1 - flyover ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Mallard - 10 - 2 m, 5f, 3young ; Mandarin - 10, 6m, 2f ; Mallard - 10 - 2 m, 5f, 3young ; Chiffchaff - 1 heard ; Moorhen - 3, 1adult, 2young ; Canada Goose - 6, 2adult, 4young

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 4+ - female on nest brooding at least 3 chicks ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 10 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Arbourthorne: Reed Warbler - 1 - In small reedbed in Arbourthorne pond singing at 10:35. ; Mallard - 8

Bingham Park: Magpie - 2+ - 2 adults feeding 2 young

Brincliffe Edge: Swift - 1

Dore: Bullfinch - 1+ - m with fledged young on garden feeder ; Nuthatch - 1 - collecting food for young from garden feeder

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - Feeding on sluice. ; Coot - 7 - Inc Family party of 6. ; Mallard - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - Adult feeding 4 juvs on sluice. ; 319 - 1 - Carrying Grass Snake. ; Blackcap - 3 - Singing Male, Female feeding juv. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing from usual spot in Sluice reed bed. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 ; Mandarin - 2m ; Coot - 3+ - 2 with 3 young1; another with 2 young ; Mallard - 1 - with 2 ducklings ; Canada Goose - 1 - with 4 goslings ; Swift - 1 ; Swallow - 4

Greystones: Great Tit - 2 - 1 Juvenile, being fed

Greystones garden: House Sparrow - 12 - 1 Juvenile being fed, in observer's garden ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Song Thrush - 1

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 3 - 1 adult with 2 young still this evening.

Markham: Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing in meadows by Great Bear warehouse ; Reed Bunting - 1 - in wet meadow by road to Great Bear warehouse ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing in reedbed by M1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - singing on gorse bank by M1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - ad briefly over reedbed by M1

Mayfield Valley: Blackcap - 2 - At least two squabbling males on Clough Lane

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 225 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Lapwing - 22 ; Curlew - 1 ; Red Kite - 1

Millhouses Park: Mandarin - 10 - Three adults and two broods of three and four. ; Moorhen - 5 - Three adults and two half-grown young. ; Mistle Thrush - 3+ - Adults collecting worms and carrying to nests at either end of the park.

Nether Edge: Goldcrest - 1

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 3+ - including at least 1 juv

Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 2 ; Pochard - 24 - 1 fem ; Great Crested Grebe - 26 ; Arctic Tern - 1 - North at 08:15 ; Arctic Tern - 6 - At least 6 Arctics among a flock of 18 'Commic' Terns

Poolsbrook Marsh: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling loudly by main pool ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing - including one away from reedbed ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing - mixed singer with opening notes resembling Chiffchaff, followed by typical WW cascading song ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing