Sightings Archive

Whitwell Moor: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - Pair, song ; Cuckoo - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Curlew - 1 - Heard

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 14 - 10 SW to canal basin @ 0701hrs; 4 N/NE @ 0713hrs kept going towards Mexborough ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Lapwing - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male ; House Martin - 1 - feeding over ; Sand Martin - 1 - feeding over ; Gadwall - 3 - 2m;1f over, presumably from SF ; Great Tit - 1pr+ - feeding young in nest in abandoned mobile conveyor ; Oystercatcher - 1 - calls heard over, but not located

Bar Brook Valley: Whinchat - 3

Concord Park: Swift - 8 ; Whitethroat - 1

Denaby Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0713hrs

Dore Village: Swift - 7 - high count this yr, so far.

Holling Dale: Tawny Owl - 1 ; Woodcock - 3 - in aerial dispute.

Listerdale Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0655hrs

Litton Mill: Grey Wagtail - 1

Low Common: 319 - 1 - Into N end of Rockingham Wood @10:05. ; Red-legged Partridge - 4

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 - a pair ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - taking food into gorse bush ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Miller’s Dale: 321 - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - a pair ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Chiffchaff - 1

Morley Plantation(E): Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Morley Plantation(W): Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Nethergreen: House Sparrow - 8+ - several occupied nests on Nethergreen Rd, including one in gutter of Nethergreen Surgery ; Swift - 2 - pair low around older houses on Nethergreen Rd

Padley Gorge: Mistle Thrush - 1 - collecting food ; Whinchat - 1 ; 321 - 1 - over N ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - in solitary tree in heathland ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling constantly ; Cuckoo - 2? - calling from SW and from E ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Treecreeper - 3 ; Redstart - 3 - singing ; Nuthatch - 4 - incl 1 feeding young in metal box 6 ; Coal Tit - 1 - carrying food ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Jay - 3 - squabbling ; Pied Flycatcher - 5+ ; Spotted Flycatcher - 3

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; House Martin - 4 - over ; Linnet - 2 - over ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - SW ; Blue Tit - 1pr+ - feeding young in nest ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - calls from woodland

Parkgate; Infirmary Road: Blue Tit - 1pr+ - feeding juvs in nest in cavity around waste pipe in wall of house

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Little Egret - 2 - flew over Sanderson's Weir, one landed in Birch, one of few mature trees still left down there. ; Kingfisher - 1 - calling

Ravensdale: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard

Ringinglow: 322 - 1 - Atlantic Canary. Female, extremely confiding, presumed escapee. ; 322 - 1 - Atlantic Canary - another shot.

Roundwood Golf course: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 03-Apr - feeding on fairway, returning to Liberty site ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 1pr - left SW ; Magpie - 7 - family party

Silverwood Pit Top: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0630hrs

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 34 ; 319 - 3 - singles soaring ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - on early ; Swift - 6 ; Wren - 16 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - sing 3in r/bed 1in hedges ; Blackcap - 4 - 3sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing