Sightings Archive

Sunday 30th June 2019

• Barbrook Plantation: Tree Pipit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Barbrook Valley: Stonechat - 3 - 3 males ; Linnet - 1+ - 1 possibly 3 males ; Skylark - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Stonechat - 4 ; Whinchat - 1 ; Blackcap - 1
• Dalton: Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 0908hrs ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Chiffchaff - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Skylark - 1 - singing over adjacent cereal field ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling
• Fulwood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - over observer's garden calling, headed towards Forge Dam
• Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1+ - 1 in stooping display near former tips,calls heard nearer course. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 6+ ; Skylark - 1 - singing from Watson's Tip. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 4+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Whitethroat - 3+ - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - Adult and juvs. ; Magpie - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 5+ - Adults and juvs. ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls
• Green Moor: Whitethroat - 2+ - Juveniles, confirmed breeding ; Pheasant - 4 - Adult female and three juveniles
• Low Bradfield: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - in trees on Smallfield Lane (near Woodfall House).
• Middleton Moor: Tufted Duck - 4 ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 14
• Norbriggs Flash: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting successfully at dusk ; Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - Reeling
• Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 7 - 7 flying over A & E Dept,12:30pm
• Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Pochard - 17 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 65 ; Herring Gull - 5 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2nd Summer
• Padley Gorge: Treecreeper - 3 ; Nuthatch - 5 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Coal Tit - 3
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 1
• R Don, Aldwarke: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - 1 singing; 1 calling ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Jay - 3+ - probable family party in canopy
• R. Don, Stevenson Rd: Redshank - 1 - juv feeding on rapidly evaporating puddles
• Redmires Res: Curlew - 34 - in fields - early morning ; Lapwing - 25 - c. in fields ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40 - c. on Top Res - flushed by dog-walker ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ad + 3 CY with LBBs ; Black-headed Gull - 35 - most drifted through to SW ; Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - reeling south side of Middle Res - one seen briefly in flight gave brief alarm call ; Whitethroat - 4 - 1 pair by Bottom Res + 2 other signing males ; Golden Plover - 1 - displaying at top of Fairthorn Clough ; Snipe - 1 - flushed from path across south of Middle Res ; Swift - 21 - flew south-west in 2 hrs ; Swallow - 5 - c. feeding over Roper Hill ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - family party
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2pr ; Cormorant - 3 - all left w ; Mute Swan - 19 - inc.pr 6y ; Canada Goose - 30 ; Tufted Duck - 17 ; 319 - 1 - with prey ; Kestrel - 3+ - a fam party call from h/row ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 - ad ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad+3cy ; Swift - 10+ ; Pied Wagtail - 5 - 2m3j ; Blackcap - 5 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing