Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Linnet - 1pr ; Pheasant - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Blackbird - breeding confirmed - discarded egg-shell ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 10 - 6 singing; 2 females; 2 calling ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 12 - 11 singing

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming

Treeton triangle pond: Reed Warbler - 1

Wyming Brook: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling ; Willow Warbler - 8 ; Goldcrest - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 1 - displaying

Bolsterstone: Swallow - 1

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 2 - males ; Raven - 2

Canklow Woods: Willow Warbler - 2 - 2 singing ; Whitethroat - 1

Crosspool: Red Kite - 1 - Flying low heading South at 15:30

Crosspool-Den Bank Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Robin - 6 - Singing ; Wren - 4 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Calling ; Nuthatch - 2 - Calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Brief song heard ; Jay - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling in distance, not seen. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Collared Dove - 1 - Calling

Curbar Edge: Cuckoo - 1 - called

Hudson*s Rough: Wren - 3+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting

Keppels Field,: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Carrion Crow - 1 - on nest

Keppels Field,W edge: Linnet - 1 - singing, ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; House Sparrow - 1

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Red Kite - 1 - drifting low S at 15:45 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Siskin - 4 - including singing male ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing

Malin Bridge: Starling - 10 - parties coming down to feeders all day..

Markham: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing

Mayfield Valley: Red-legged Partridge - 2 - pair this evening - my first here

Norbrigg’s Flash: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Grey Heron - 1 - ad

Orgreave Lakes: Shoveler - 2 - males ; Little Egret - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 2

Oughtibridge: House Martin - 3 - Bottom of Church Street, feeding high

Poolsbrook CP: Great Crested Grebe - 11

Poolsbrook Marsh: Canada Goose - 2 - pair on nest ; Gadwall - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

R Don, Attercliffe: Sand Martin - Max 9 - Feeding above river ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - Drifting West ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Blackcap - 5m - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Herring Gull - 2 - On East Coast Road weir ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - 1m 1f ; Canada Goose - 2 - Honking on river

Ramsley Pools/Res.: Grasshopper Warbler - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 2 - SE, one veering E @ 1110hrs ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr - still carrying food to cemetery ; Siskin - 1 - heard over