Sightings Archive

Roundwood Ponds: Moorhen - 2 ; Gadwall - 7 - 6m; 1f ; Greylag Goose - 17+ - + brood of 1+ goslings ; Reed Warbler - 5+ - singing on reed-dominated pond ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - 2 ads; 2 2cy ; Coot - 1+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 - one 'sharming', then two in noisy dispute in reedbed ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - in constant aerial display overhead/ Kilnhurst Hall Wood ; Common Buzzard - 01-Feb - in area

RVCP: Shelduck - 2 - flew north

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Swallow - 4

Slippery Stones: Cuckoo - 1 - calling

Tankersley: Lapwing - 2 - wasteland opp Evri ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Dead

Ughill Farm: Meadow Pipit - 6+ - one with nest material ; Snipe - 2 - territorial behaviour seen over several days ; Wheatear - 2 - pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 - pair, regularly seen here, no sign of nesting seen

Ughill Farm/Wet shaw: Garden Warbler - 02-Apr - Possibly two pairs in two nearby locations ; Jackdaw - 1 - entering tree hole, presumably into its nest

Ulley: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Male, Guithwaite Common Lane @12.00 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Skylark - 2 - Singing

Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 2 - Pair back in outbuilding-4 days later than last year.

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - Male ; Curlew - 1 - Calling ; Linnet - 12 ; Skylark - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Tree Pipit - 3 - Displaying 'parachute flight' ; Cuckoo - 1 - not calling

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Redstart - 1 - male singing ; Pied Flycatcher - 7 - 6 males and female nest building ; Wood Warbler - 1 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 4 - singing ; Woodcock - 4+ - presumed female with 3+ chicks, female flew off carrying at least one chick. ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Nuthatch - 5+ - 4 active nests in boxes ; Chaffinch - 11 - singing ; Treecreeper - 5+ - nest in rotting tree trunk ; Linnet - 7+ - 4 singing ; Robin - 88 - singing ; Wren - 61 - singing ; Dunnock - 6 - singing

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 - singing males Reddicar Hollow ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling from the moorland edge ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male disturbed off the track with prey

Barlow Common: Kingfisher - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2

Bassingthorpe Spring: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing, 1 foraging in leaf litter ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Blackcap - 2+ - 2 singing, female flitting through trees, in scrub ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing

Bell Ground, Tankersley: Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Gadwall - 4 - 2 pairs ; Swallow - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Blackcap - 1

Blackburn Meadows NR: Whitethroat - 4 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - Singing ; Blackcap - 3 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 7 - 5 singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing

Dennis Knoll: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling for 30+ minutes. Not seen.

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - low over roof tops of Shearman Avenue, causing starlings to alarm.

Orgreave Lakes: Swift - 50+ ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Whitethroat - 10+ ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Kittiwake - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - heard only ; Redstart - 1 - singing male at start of conduit path ; Kittiwake - 1

Rother Valley CP: Black-tailed Godwit - 1