Sightings Archive

Low Common: Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Swallow - 4

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 3 adults ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair ; Mallard - 1+ ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Parkgate: House Martin - 20-25 - over breeding area

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 4 - 1 singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - W ; Canada Goose - 4 - NE @ 0648hrs ; Swallow - 1 - E ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - singles, SW (both adults) ; Blackcap - 1 - calling

Porter Clough: Tree Pipit - 2 - singles S ; Swallow - 20 - flew SW ; Cormorant - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Crossbill - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - on dam wall ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling @ 0625hrs

Rawmarsh; Ryecroft: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - SW ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - called briefly ; Jay - 03-Apr ; Coal Tit - 2 - calling

RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 5 ; Cormorant - 22

Baslow: Hobby - 1 - N W at tree height over observers garden

Bolehill Flash: Peregrine - 1 - Following R Rother west towards Catcliffe.

Catcliffe Flash: BITTERN - 1 - flew from the Centre of western side of Flash and dropped down in the northern corner. ; BITTERN - 1 - second photo

Ewden Height: Red Kite - 1 ; Hobby - 1 ; Peregrine - 1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over ; Swift - 3 - S/SW @ 1203hrs

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Little Egret - 3 ; Goosander - 8 - Adult female with 7 almost full grown chicks ; Arctic Tern - 1 - Juvenile 05:50-06:30

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 4 - 2m, 2f feeding in stubble field ; Whinchat - 1 - fem/imm feeding with Wheatear

Porter Clough: Mistle Thrush - 20 - post-breeding flock

R Rother, Catcliffe: Goosander - 9 - Female and 8 juveniles between Catcliffe roundabout and Waverley estate.

R Rother, Whiston Meadows: Mute Swan - 8 - under M1 bridge - 2 adults + 6 juveniles.

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Swallow - 3 - 2+1, rapidly S @ tree-top height ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling ; Stock Dove - 1 - dropped in ; Linnet - 1 - S ; Swift - 3 - 1 @ 1127hrs; 2 @ 1158hrs, all S/SW

Redmires Res: 320 - 3 - flew NE ; Little Grebe - 5 - pair + 3 juvs ; Cormorant - 2 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - flew S ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad with LBBs ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Willow Warbler - 12 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - flew S over Roper Hill ; Pied Wagtail - 10 - c. on dam wall

River Rother by M1: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Second photo ; Dipper - 1 - Juvenile feeding by stream inlet

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 2 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Lapwing - 40 ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 - Most moving south ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 ; 319 - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1

Ashes Farm. Wentworth: House Martin - 70+ - juvs on telegraph wires. Great numbers for area with few nests observed locally ; Swallow - 40+ - on fence

Attercliffe: Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - juvenile on Warren Street roof

Calver Bridge: Dipper - 1

Cinder Bridge Field: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - one on top of pylon with a second circling around, calling; both adults

Froggatt: House Martin - 12 ; Swallow - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 2 - vocal this morning including at least one immature

Middleton Moor: 320 - 35 ; Greylag Goose - 19 ; Coot - 3 - 2 adults, 1 juv ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; 320 - 38 ; Coot - 2