Sightings Archive

Whirlow Hall Farm: House Martin - 1+ - small numbers passing through ; Finch sp - c. 100 - feeding

Catcliffe: Kingfisher - 3 - 3 birds on river ; 319 - 3 - Young bird pestering adult for food

Catcliffe Flash: Little Egret - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 2 juv ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Little Grebe - 4 - 2 Juv ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Jay - 1

Cinder Bridge Field: Common Buzzard - 5 ; Kestrel - 2 - hunting together/mobbing BZ ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Swift - 8 - drifted SW

Ecclesall: Swift - 4 - NW

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1 - active and calling regularly @ Brick Kiln Plantation ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - calls ; Woodpigeon - 20+ - feeding in recently cut meadows ; Magpie - 5+ ; Skylark - 1 - up from long grass W of Watson's Tip ; Goldfinch - 40+ - feeding W of Watson's Tip ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls, behind Driving Range

Harthill Res: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - back on Bottom Res ; Little Egret - 1 ; Sand Martin - 6 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - calling overhead ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 - ad & 2 fledged juvs

Hoober Field Road: Linnet - c60 - flock on wires over adjacent field ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing from adjacent short-rotation willow crop ; Chiffchaff - 2 - calling ; Blackcap - 1 - calling

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Kestrel - 1 - male, with prey ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - on road

Orgreave Lakes: Kingfisher - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Greenshank - 1 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Dipper - 1 - on river ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Dipper - 1 - Juvenile still feeding just beyond weir. ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - 4 birds feeding downstreanm side of weir. ; Jay - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 40+ ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Swallow - 4+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 11 - 2 Juv ; Little Egret - 3 - Flew in from Catcliffe - probably same birds ; Swift - 1 ; Sand Martin - 40+ - On the side of the square soil heap adj to main lake, many juvs ; Linnet - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15+ ; Greylag Goose - 40+ ; Cormorant - 2 ; Pochard - 17+ ; Lapwing - 6 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; House Martin - 1+ - With Sand Martins ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Greenshank - 1

Poolsbrook Marsh: Reed Warbler - 3 - ad feeding young ; Kingfisher - 1 - carrying food - left to SE

Redmires Top Res: Crossbill - 1 - at least one heard

Silverwood Lagoon: Green Woodpecker - 1 - in southern paddocks at 07.45 ; Swift - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing briefly ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Jay - 4 ; Linnet - 8 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; House Martin - c.15 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 03-Apr - calling in phragmites ; Mute Swan - 8 - resident pair and 6 juvs

Upperdale: Treecreeper - 4 - Family party

Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 2 - Still sat on nest in outbuilding. ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing.

Waterthorpe: Pied Wagtail - 3 - Two chicks fledged and fed by adult. Third successful brood. ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - Another picture of fledgling.

Catcliffe: Peregrine - 1 - Male flew east at 19:15

Crowhole: 319 - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Ewden Height: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 22 - Mostly adults moving in all directions ; Kestrel - 5 - Family group incl. juvs ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Song Thrush - 3 - Adult tending to calling juvs in bracken ; Stonechat - 1 juv ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Appeared to be a large juvenile female ; Spotted Flycatcher - 01-Feb ; Swift - 6