Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Herring Gull - 2 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Greylag Goose - 85+ ; Pochard - 24 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Parkgate: House Martin - 30-40 - feeding over

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling

Parkgate; fields to W: Red-legged Partridge - 18 - single covey ; Pheasant - 4 ; Kestrel - 3 - together, presumed family party ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over from SW

Parkgate; Scrooby Lane to Glossop Lodge: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - flushed from flooded bridlepath

Pike Lowe, Midhope: Red Kite - 1 - Watched for about 10 mins. from Candlerush Edge gliding along clough between Candlerush Edge and Upper Commons ; Kestrel - 2 - hunting over moor

R Don, Aldwarke: Kingfisher - 1 ; Green Sandpiper - 1 - over calling (heard only)

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Sparrowhawk - 02-Mar - over together @ 1145hrs; single with BZ @ 1240hrs ; Common Buzzard - 2 - 1 S @ 1145hrs; 1 over with SH @ 1240hrs

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 10 - on Top Res ; Lapwing - 10 ; Golden Plover - 1 - flew W calling at 10:20 hrs ; Snipe - 2 - singles N - first of the autumn ; Mallard - 14 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40 - c. ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - 65 ; Swallow - 95 - c. 70 circling Soughley Lane + c. 25 flew SE ; Starling - 60 - c. in fields - including leucistic individual ; Kestrel - 3 - juvs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - juv still begging loudly from Hammond’s Field area ; Raven - 2 ; Red Grouse - 10 - inc family party of 7 on south side of Middle Res ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Wheatear - 2 - Juvs on wall at bottom of Roper Hill ; Whinchat - 1 - juv at bottom of Roper Hill ; Redstart - 1 - male on barbed wire fence at bottom of Roper Hill ; Whitethroat - 4 - juvs ; Willow Warbler - 1 - in Fairthron Clough ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - flew SE ; Tree Pipit - 2 - 1 down in bracken + 1 flew S calling ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 15 ; Ringed Plover - 4 - juvs on Middle Res

Rud Hill: Wheatear - 2 - juvs on fence posts

Silver Wood: Green Woodpecker - 1 - in lower woods (Gulling Wood) at 08.50

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - 5

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 33 ; Coot - 68 ; Moorhen - 5 - Still 2 very young chicks ; Shoveler - 1 ; Ruff - 1 - probably a male briefly ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; 319 - 10+ ; Kestrel - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male ; Swallow - 2 ; Sand Martin - 8 ; Linnet - c30 ; Greenfinch - 5 ; Goldfinch - 32 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Barbrook Valley: Reed Bunting - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Stonechat - 5+ ; Swallow - 3 ; 324 - 1 - Dung beetle

Big Moor: Whinchat - 3 ; Stonechat - 3

Ecclesall: House Martin - 16 - flew S at dusk over Ansell Road

Millhouses: 319 - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Dipper - 1 - Young bird feeding downstream side of weir. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Male bird feeding around weir. ; Wigeon - 1 ; Goldeneye - 1 - Eclipse male still ; Snipe - 1 - North ; Swift - 16 ; Whinchat - 2 - Mound ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Mound ; Goldeneye - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - North ; Swift - 16 ; Swallow - 40 ; Whinchat - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - In brambles

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 1 - fly catching from stone wall. ; Linnet - c300 - around site. ; Woodpigeon - c200 - feeding on stubble fields. ; Kestrel - 2

R Don, Effingham St: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1cy on Wards roof and on river tonight