Sightings Archive

Rocher Wood: Redstart - 2 - adult male and recently-fledged juvenile on fence near edge of wood.

Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 1+ - female with 9 ducklings

Stubbin, nr Rawmarsh; colliery & tip site: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - 3 singing; 1 independent juv ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 4 singing; 1f ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - inc 1 singing; 1 scolding calls ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Willow Warbler - 6 - inc 2 singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - juvs in tit flock ; Long-tailed Tit - numerous - mostly juvs in wandering flocks ; Greylag Goose - 21 - W @ 0730hrs; returning E/NE @ 0812hrs ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - singing/displaying ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 11 - inc pr ad-3y ; Canada Goose - 31 - prim.flights half grown ; Kestrel - 2 - j ; Black-headed Gull - 40 - inc.5j ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - jv ; Blackcap - 5 - 4sing 1jv ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - call ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 14+ - inc party of 10+ ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - sing ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - 1 mob.by kes.dark col prob c/crown flying sse 0940

Upper Haugh; Chapel Walk: Jay - 1+ - calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Upper Haugh; Harding Avenue: Long-tailed Tit - 10 - mostly juvs ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Wadsley Common garden: Blackbird - 3 - Male feeding 2 young. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Juvenile on feeders.

Warren Vale LNR: Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 3+ - family party ; Common Buzzard - 1 - chased away through trees by crows ; Chiffchaff - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Warren Vale tip/Collier Brook: Blackcap - 5 - inc 4 singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 3 - family party? ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc 1 singing; 1 fledged juv ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 2 - On river, 1 preening for 5 minutes in Sun 16.15 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing. ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Blackbird - 05-Jun - 1 singing. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Over ; Mallard - 3 - Female with 2 young, river

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 8 - feeding together by overflow ; Hobby - 1 - NE over dam wall in evening. ; Goosander - 1 - redhead on Res, then flew down Loxley valley

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Juvenile female feeding in trees at the bottom of the garden. ; Coal Tit - 1 - Juvenile on garden sunflower hearts feeder.

Middleton Moor: Dunlin - 1 ; Shelduck - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Adult remaining until the 12th July ; Redshank - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Little Egret - 4

Peat Pits: Curlew - 2 - ad and juv in recently cut fields

Rivelin Valley: Red Kite - 1 - Heading W between Windle House and Low Coppice farms at 1140.

Stone Circle, Broomhead: Stonechat - 6 - family party, 4 recently fledged juvs

Upper Ewden: Marsh Harrier - 1 - cream crown

Wharncliffe Side: Sand Martin - 3+ - Flying over River Don near former factory

Baslow: Raven - 2 - Over ; Swift - 4

Baslow Edge: 324 - 10 - Red Deer in field behind Baslow Edge

Baslow, Gorse Bank Farm: Pied Wagtail - 1

Broom valley; Beaconsfield Road: Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Canklow Woods: Jackdaw - 88 - 88 west at 2030

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 2+ - ad pr + single chick ; Gadwall - 30+ ; Mallard - 40+ ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Little Grebe - 2+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pr - fem on new nest (3rd attempt) ; Moorhen - 4+ ; Coot - 25+ - 4 occupied nests, no small young ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 2+

Froggatt Bridge: Canada Goose - 35 - Mixed party of ads and juvs moving slowly downstream

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 - 2 adults and 1 juv ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Juv on north shore