Sightings Archive

Five Weirs Walk: Jay - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 3 - 2f, 1m

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male in observer's garden

Harthill Res: Cetti's Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Redwing - 10 ; Fieldfare - 40 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; 320 - 8 ; 319 - 5

Kimberworth Park: Greenfinch - 1 - singing, behind Remount Road ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Grey Hill

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - I - over ; Woodpigeon - 24

Moorwood Farm, Stannington: Golden Plover - c50 - resting in horse pasture towards Moorwood Lane

Orgreave Lakes: Little Gull - 1 - adult briefly at 09:40 ; Swallow - 10+

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 29 ; Mallard - 27 ; Black-headed Gull - 7

Penny hill wind farm: Stock Dove - 49 - Feeding in fields around the wind farm.

R Don, Aldwarke: Stock Dove - 3 - in aerial display from adjacent pylon ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Mallard - 4 - drakes ; Goosander - 1 - duck ; Moorhen - 1

R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Gadwall - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 13 - 6prs + 1m ; 320 - 20+ ; Mallard - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 3 - 1 ad, 2 2cy ; Stock Dove - 3 - 1pr + 1 singing from Thrybergh Bridge

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Redwing - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Rectory Fields allotments

Redmires: Long-tailed Tit - 2 - coming to feeders

RVCP, Main Lake: Wigeon - 52

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Little Gull - 1 - A pristine adult, lovely pink wash.

Scholes Coppice: Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 6 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Jay - 2 - possible pair @ Raspberry Plantation

Shillito Wood: Brambling - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Thrybergh Tip: Gadwall - 5prs ; Little Grebe - 3+ - lots of trilling ; Coot - 8+ ; Pochard - 4 - 3m; 1f ; Greylag Goose - 4prs ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; 320 - 3 - 1pr + 1 ; Mallard - 5 - 2prs + 1m ; Moorhen - 2+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 17 - 16 singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - female ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling ; Redwing - 2 ; Shoveler - 30 - 19m; 11f ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - birds singing from NW & NE corners of flash

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

Totley: Swift - 2 - 2 flying high whilst testing caller

Ulley Res: Great Crested Grebe - 10

Blackburn Meadows: Mute Swan - 2 - moved from the lock gates to a new nest/roost where the canal runs over the Weir. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Pair seen regularly for several weeks on the canal ; Gadwall - 1 - Male on the river just below Jordan Lock.

Bolsterstone: Fieldfare - 1 ; Redwing - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 25+ - Feeding together in a field ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Curlew - 5 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Skylark - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Tufted Duck - 38 - Roosting at dusk

Curbar Edge: Skylark - 12 - feeding in ploughed field