Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Song Thrush - 5 - 2 (SK4596) 3, inc 2 singing (SK4696) ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - calling (2 SK4596; 1 SK4696)

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 1 - NNW calling @ 0820hrs

Agden Rocher: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - juv ; Green Woodpecker - 1+ - juv

Barnside Moor: Hobby - 1 - hunting and catching dragonflies over the moor ; Kestrel - 1 - hover hunting over moor

Blacka Plantation: 324 - 02-Mar - Silver-washed Fritillary: on Bramble patch near footpath gate at border to Strawberry Lee plantation by the A625.

Bolehill Flash: Yellowhammer - 3

Calver Sough: Bullfinch - 1

Eyam: Swift - 8

Malin Bridge: 324 - 2 - 2 fox cubs in garden

Nether Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - flying low over back gardens at Machon Bank/Sheldon Road; a very unexpected sighting at this location, presumably involving a dispersing juvenile

Orgreave Lakes: Sedge Warbler - 3 ; 324 - 4 - Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly ; 324 - 20+ - Gatekeeper butterflies ; Little Egret - 4 - 4 juvs north 06:10 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Whitethroat - 5 - Inc 4 juvs by river bridge

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Kestrel - 1 - soaring over @ 1215hrs

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Canada Goose - 67 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - C40 ; Swift - 40 ; Swallow - 3 ; House Martin - 30 ; Reed Warbler - 5 ; Whitethroat - 5 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Below dam very few records this year ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - One juv ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Linnet - 15 ; Bullfinch - 2

Ughill: Red Kite - 1 - A rather pale bird near Shepherd Height drifted slowly towards Ughill.

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Nightjar - 1

Whiston Meadows: Stock Dove - 4

Aldwarke: Grey Heron - 1 - NE @ 0753hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - on top of chimney ; Peregrine - 3 - on chimneys/rooftops 1740-1830hrs. Male (adult?) & 2 1cy, both females (siblings), playing & chasing FPs over complex.

Bolehill Flash: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Singing below floodbank

Kimberworth Park: Grey Heron - 1 - NW across Roughwood Rec, toward Shepherd's Plantation ; Kestrel - 1 - male, on lamp post opposite Forty Martyrs

Longshaw: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing

Midhope Res: Avocet - 1 - juv on west shore still 08:45 ; Avocet - 1 - Juvenile still present 9.15 on western shore. ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Submissive mewing call heard suggesting at least one juvenile ; Jackdaw - c100 - incl numerous juvs ; House Martin - 4 ; Swallow - 4 ; Little Grebe - 6 - all adults ; Lapwing - 6 - all juveniles ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Siskin - 3 ; Swift - 4 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Mallard - 64 - incl female with 4 fresh ducklings ; Chiffchaff - 1 singing ; Pied Wagtail - 5 - ad + 4 juvs

Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 1 ; Curlew - 1 - 4 inc 1st summer ; Little Egret - 1 ; Swift - 150

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Kestrel - 1 - female, flew towards Roundwood Ponds

Rawmarsh; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 3 - calling from woodland ; Sand Martin - 4 - through SW ; Blackcap - 2 - 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Stock Dove - 2 - W ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Swift - c15 - circled over briefly ; House Martin - c5 - with Swifts ; Greenfinch - 1 - f/juv ; Whitethroat - 1 - female ; Blackbird - c20 - moving around site in small parties

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Pied Wagtail - 17 - 5 ads & 12 fledged, independent juvs feeding on playing field

Rawmarsh; Ryecroft: Swift - c70 - over together briefly

Redmires Res: Mandarin - 1 - female on Bottom Res ; Swift - 8 - flew SW ; Black-headed Gull - 50 - c. mostly SW

Roundwood Golf course: Kestrel - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 2 - on pylon overlooking ponds

RVCP, Main Lake: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Black-tailed Godwit - 2 - 2 on island

Underbank Res: Dunlin - 1 - Adult feeding at neck end 8.15 ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - calling juvs