Sightings Archive

Monday 16th May 2022

• Cowell Flat: Wheatear - 2 - Pair on Pen-Side road ; Tree Pipit - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2
• Damflask Res: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - Singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 4 - 2 Goslings ; Mandarin - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 3 - Singing ; Garden Warbler - 3 - 2 seen together ; Swift - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Mallard - 12 - 12 ducklings ; Canada Goose - 10 - 10 Goslings
• Emlin Ridge: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard only
• Fulwood garden: Siskin - 2+ - female and fledged juv at feeders ; Osprey - 1 - passed over high SE, mobbed by a Peregrine ; Peregrine - 3 - 1 female low W and then 2 high over, one mobbing Osprey ; Kestrel - 1 ; Herring Gull - 60 - single party over NW, with 15 LBBGs and 3 BHGs - unusual ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15 - over NW with Herring Gulls ; Black-headed Gull - 3 - adults over joined HGs NW ; 319 - 4 ; Starling - 12 - feeding on flying insects and taking food to nearby nests
• Langsett Res: Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1
• Loxley Valley: Curlew - 2
• Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 1 - male on wall White Rake ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing briefly ; Linnet - 4 ; Lapwing - 20+ ; Dunlin - 4 - one mid am, 2 dropped in early pm and another straight through. ; Redshank - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 13 - 8 mid am, 2 more dropped in early pm and 13 by mid afternoon, flushed by Peregrine and only 6 dropped back in. ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Shelduck - 3 - pair and single ; Coot - 6 ; Curlew - 4 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 3+ - singing ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 207 - mid afternoon, inc yellow colour ringed 2cy
• Midhope Res area: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 2 ; Skylark - Pair ; Curlew - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - Pair - Courtship behaviour ; Swallow - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 pairs ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; House Martin - 2 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Wheatear - 1 - female
• Midhopestones: Swallow - 2 pairs
• Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 8 - Until 06:45, left north. ; LITTLE TERN - 1 - 1 with Common Terns briefly at 06:40, left high East at 06:45 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 6 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 - Summer-plumage bird from 06:00. ; Little Egret - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 12 - flew S at 07:33 hrs ; Dunlin - 1 - flew S with Ringed Plovers at 07:33 hrs
• R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 15 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2
• R Don, Stevenson Rd: Sand Martin - 20+ ; Swift - 5 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1+ ; Chiffchaff - 1
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 1 - low to S @ 1625hrs
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 4m, 2f ; Redstart - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 2+ - pair feeding 2 fledged juvs around blue bridge
• RVCP, Intermediate Pond: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing
• RVCP, Main Lake: Whooper Swan - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Herring Gull - 70
• Thrybergh CP: Egyptian Goose - 1 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1
• Underbank Res: Siskin - 02-Mar ; Grey Wagtail - Pair