Sightings Archive

Thursday 14th April 2022

• Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - still present
• Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Linnet - 2
• Bents Green: Blackcap - 2+ - Singing in "The Common" (Common Lane)
• Birley Farm/ Chapelwheel Dam: Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 - Including pair ; 319 - 1
• Burbage Valley: Wheatear - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Ring Ouzel - 6 - At least 6, including 2 singing and pair nest building
• Cowell Flat: Wheatear - 5 - 3 males and 2 females foraging on disturbed ground near Agden Side Road
• Crosspool-Den Bank Wood: Brambling - 2 - M&F ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Calling ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Robin - 7 - Singing ; Wren - 5 - Singing ; Greenfinch - 4 - Calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing from adjacent garden ; Coal Tit - 1 - On feeder ; Great Tit - 4 - Calling ; Blue Tit - 7 ; Jay - 1 - Calling ; Dunnock - 3 - Calling ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m & 1f
• Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 3 ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair seen together
• Damflask Res: Swallow - 2
• Firsby Res: Whitethroat - 2 - In hedgerow Garden lane, feeding also subsong heard ; Willow Warbler - 8 - c8 singing ; Blackcap - 4 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 7 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male, singing. ; Mallard - 1 - Drake ; Coot - 6 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Kestrel - 2 - One feeding on prey, on top of power line pole. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Mobbing Buzzard in tree. ; 319 - 1
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Siskin - 2 - pair ; Mallard - 2 - pair hoovering fallen seeds under feeders ; 319 - 2 - overhead, much calling ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - circling over
• High Bradfield: Brambling - 1 - calling in trees along northern edge of churchyard
• Holdworth: Curlew - 3 - display flights
• Keppels Field: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing, adj to Scholes Coppice
• Kimberworth Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling from bottom of Grey Hill, briefly over to Roughwood School
• Linacre Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 12 ; Blackcap - 1
• Longshaw: Redstart - 1 - 1 singing male
• Malin Bridge: Common Buzzard - 4 - 2 low over, 2 more distant ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - soaring
• Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 7+ - At least 7 in field from rough track to hide on No 4 lagoon ; Shoveler - 2 - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 3 - Pair plus intruder ; Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; 320 - 10
• Morley Pond: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing, S side
• Orgreave Lakes: Garden Warbler - 1 - In willows, close to Rother footbridge, Treeton bank. ; Little Egret - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Skylark - 15 ; Goosander - 3 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Redshank - 1
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - 2 singing males
• Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 5 - soaring over @ 1255hrs, drifting N; 2 returned S/SE
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over towards cemetery from E ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - carrying food; left towards cemetery
• Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 14 - inc female with 8 young ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 4 - 3 on Top Res + 1 on Middle ; Herring Gull - 14 ; Black-headed Gull - 10 ; Willow Warbler - 16 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling by Middle Res ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing from gorse - earliest arrival here ; Wheatear - 1 - male by Middle Res - flew off E ; Sand Martin - 1 - flew W ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - over Middle Res ; Brambling - 1 - calling by Bottom res ; Meadow Pipit - 6 - flew W
• Redmires Top Res: Wheatear - 6 - on dam wall ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 - pair with trilling ; Moorhen - 1 - feeding on toads squashed on the road