Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Blackcap - 4 ; Whitethroat - 8 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - Carrying food ; Moorhen - 4+4 - 4 young ; Skylark - 6 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; House Sparrow - 12

Ulley: Kestrel - 1 - Male field off Ulley Lane.

Ulley Res, NE arm: Bullfinch - 2 - Pair ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 2 singing ; Mute Swan - 1 - Sat on nest ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male singing

Westwood CP: Whitethroat - 2

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Redstart - 2 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 5 - 4 male, another silent bird ; Willow Warbler - 32 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 9+ - 8 male 1 female ; Raven - 1

Whitwell Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - calling

Winnats Pass farm: Swallow - 5 - Traditional breeding site.

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 - 3 singing just by the path

Barbrook Valley: Tree Pipit - 5+ - singing ; Stonechat - 1 - male calling ; Raven - 1 - mobbed by two Carrion Crows ; Red Kite - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 10+ ; Willow Warbler - 5+

Damflask Res: Curlew - 1 - over Res ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - on outflow ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; 321 - 3 ; Swift - 30+ - low over trees in cold overcast conditions ; Swallow - c40 ; House Martin - c20 ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling N of dam wall and flew over Res. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - flew 4 times into bank of trees S of dam wall, with food

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2+ ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair ; Greylag Goose - 4 ; Mallard - 6+ ; Gadwall - 2 - males ; Sand Martin - 1 - at least 1 ; Swallow - 20+ - moving between Morley and Dog Kennel ; Swift - 3

Far Lane, near Barlow: 319 - 1 ; Linnet - 1

Leash Fen: Lapwing - 1 ; Linnet - 3

Listerdale Wood: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over together @ 1220hrs

Orgreave Lakes: Bullfinch - 2 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 - second picture ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Skylark - 20+ ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; Swift - 20+ ; Swallow - 10+ ; House Martin - 10+ ; Red-breasted Merganser - 1 - Drake on small lake late afternoon. ; Little Gull - 1 - 1st summer late afternoon. ; Yellow Wagtail - 3 - On North Bank.

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Swift - 12 - 4 feeding + 8 N ; House Martin - 6 - 2 N with Swifts + 4 feeding over ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing

Ramsley Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - intermittently showing well; eventually flew off across Leash Fen

Ramsley Res: Jay - 1

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 1 - trilling on Top Res ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 pairs in territorial display ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2 CY ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ads ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Greylag Goose - 50 - c. inc 6 pairs with 34 young ; Moorhen - 1 - on Top Res ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing by Top Res ; Redstart - 2 - singing ; Swallow - 18 - flew SW

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Triangle Pond, Treeton: Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Unthank: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Swift - 2

Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 2 - Gathering mud and rebuilding nest in outbuilding.

Wentworth Park: Robin - 1 - adult carrying food to nest hole in trunk of oak

Derwent Res: Wood Warbler - 1 - singing on W side

Dore: House Martin - 2 - Over recreation ground

Ewden: Fieldfare - 1 - calling, then watched perched on a post

Fairholmes: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - singing male near visitor centre ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Firsby Res: Coot - 1