Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling. ; Greenfinch - 2 - Adult with fledgling begging for food. ; Linnet - 6+ ; Bullfinch - 1+ - Orange juv on wires. ; Goldfinch - 20+ - Adults and Juvs. ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Jackdaw - 6+

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1 - over former car park

Loxley Valley: Kingfisher - 1 - calling at eastern end of Olive Wheel Dam

Middleton Moor: Whinchat - 3 ; Shoveler - 1 ; 320 - 44 ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Shelduck - 1 ; Redstart - 2 ; Canada Goose - 5 ; Mallard - 12 ; 320 - 50 - c. ; Coot - 4 ; Lapwing - 5 ; Sanderling - 1 - juv ; Black-headed Gull - 70 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 750 - c. roosting - still arriving as I left ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 ads & a 2CY ; Kestrel - 1 - juv male ; Whinchat - 2 - still present ; Rook - 50 - c. ; Swallow - 15 - c.

Nether Green garden: Robin - 2 - Well worn adult feeding recently fledged youngster. Possible 2nd or 3rd brood

Old Ravenfield: House Sparrow - 6+ - Near bungalows next to Pingle Lane Tip approach track. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Female near path to Silverwood. ; 319 - 1 - Along old colliery railway line. ; House Martin - 4 - Low over farmland behind St James view. ; Swallow - 3 - Low over farmland with HMs.

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 3 - 1 flew N @ 0700hrs; singles in NW & SW corners of large lake ; Kestrel - 4 - family party hunting together on S tip ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 1 on S tip; 3 SW corner large lake ; Whitethroat - 1 - juv, feeding in plantation W of large lake ; Willow Warbler - 1 - feeding in plantation W of large lake ; Chiffchaff - 20+ - calling birds everywhere on site, accompanying tit-flocks ; Linnet - 2 - N end of large lake ; Little Grebe - 12+ - inc juvs, small lake ; Great Crested Grebe - 2+ - pair feeding 2 well-grown juvs ; Mute Swan - 8+ - + 2 full-grown juvs, large lake ; Mute Swan - 10 ; Ringed Plover - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Kestrel - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1

R Rother, Orgreave: Treecreeper - 1 - calls from tit-flock ; Willow Warbler - 1 - in tit-flock; singing ; Coal Tit - 1+ - singing ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Cormorant - 1 - imm, on river ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Siskin - 1+ - S, calling

Ramsley Res: Little Grebe - 1

Ravenfield Park: Mallard - 15 - Loafing on bank. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - Calling near entrance gate. ; Goldcrest - 1

RVCP: Cormorant - 23 ; Coot - 120 ; Pochard - 3 ; Egyptian Goose - 6 ; Shelduck - 1 - juvenile ; Peregrine - 1 - imm.male ; Tufted Duck - 74 ; Red Kite - 1 - drifting west

Shillito Wood: Crossbill - 7

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 2+ - Calling.

Thrybergh CP: Peregrine - 1 - Flew east to west scattering pigeons 09:46 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Swallow - 20 ; House Martin - 18 - Moving south ; Sand Martin - 19

Treeton; Hemingway Close: Goldfinch - c30 ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - inc 1 singing

Ughill: Mistle Thrush - 10 - Perched on wires.

Walkley Bank: Raven - 1 - Circling high.

Wharncliffe Side: Woodpigeon - 1 - sat on nest in sycamore next to Main road

Bingham Park: Tufted Duck - 3 - female/juvenile at Ibbotson's Wheel

Holmesfield: Bullfinch - 4 ; Starling - 10 ; Goldfinch - 6

Holmesfield Park Wood: Nuthatch - 1

Onesacre: Wheatear - 1 - in field just west of Onesacre

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 91 ; Pochard - 47

Peat Pits: Black Redstart - 1 - female type still around farm buildings ; Wheatear - 4 ; Rook - c30 - all juvs

Rawmarsh: Kestrel - 1 - E @ 1155hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over @ 1155hrs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - circling high over @ 1320hrs