Sightings Archive

Whirlow Hall Farm: Swallow - 2 - Passing through (first I've seen there this year) ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Still singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Still singing

White Edge: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling below edge.

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 - 2 NW of junction towards Redicar, 1 SE of Junction towards main car park. ; Cuckoo - 1 - One heard. ; Wood Warbler - 4 - singing/calling near lower junction ; Wood Warbler - 4 - another photo ; Wood Warbler - 3 - At least three singing at the intersection of the footpaths ; Siskin - 2 - pair displaying ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - displaying

Barlow: Yellowhammer - 1 - male ; Raven - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; House Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 18-21 - at least 18 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Pheasant - 6 - plus a very tame escaped Reeves's Pheasant

Bole Hill, Treeton: Sedge Warbler - 3 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1215

Cinder Hills: Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Crookes: Swift - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 2+ - including 1 pair with at least 1 gosling,on N side ; Mandarin - 4 - 2 pairs, pr in grass on N side, SK405964 and pr W end, SK403964, male briefly displaying ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing from copse between lakes, SK401963

Loxley: Whitethroat - 1 - Black Lane

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 3 - 3 heard

Middleton Moor: Sanderling - 8 ; Ringed Plover - 10 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Whimbrel - 1 ; Dunlin - 12 ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 10 ; Greenshank - 1 - dropped in at 11.45 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Shelduck - 4 - 2 pairs ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Dunlin - 4 - 2 small short billed birds joined by 2 bigger and longer billed birds (pm). All 4 left E early evening. ; Ringed Plover - 5 - 4 flew round and left N mid pm, one dropped in late afternoon. ; Curlew - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 1 - in from surrounding fields ; Whimbrel - 2 - in and out from surrounding fields several times in afternoon. ; Whimbrel - 2 - another photo ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Shelduck - 3 - pair interacting aggressively with third bird ; 320 - 3 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Goldeneye - 1 - fem diving frequently ; Greylag Goose - 5 ; Raven - 2

Morley Pond: Mallard - 6+ - including female with 12 ducklings at E end ; Tufted Duck - 6+ ; Gadwall - 2 - 1 pair ; Coot - 6 - adult with 5 chicks, E end ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - 1 pair, feeding around overflow, moving between lakes

Orgreave: Cetti's Warbler - 1

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - On main lake all morning. ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Greenshank - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 - On the island ; Shelduck - 2 - Briefly on small lake at 1030, then south.

R Rother, Catcliffe: Little Egret - 1

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Whinchat - 1 - male singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling south side of Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - calling over Middle Res ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Snipe - 3 - drumming ; Cormorant - 2 - flew W

RVCP: Common Sandpiper - 3

Sothall: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0208hr

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 34 - 7 cygnets from first nest on water ; Lapwing - 4