Sightings Archive

Longshaw: Swallow - 4

Millhouses Park: Mandarin - 7 - female and six small ducklings. ; Moorhen - 1 - Incubating the third clutch this year. Only one half grown juv survived previous attempts and hasn’t been seen recently.

Norfolk Heritage Park: Kestrel - 1 - Flying low appeared to be scanning for prey - first time I've seen one over the park.

Orgreave Lakes: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Greenshank - 2 - 2 briefly then flew south ; Common Scoter - 11 - 8 drakes and 3 females until 7:40

Padley Gorge: Treecreeper - 1 - Juv

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 14 - at least 2 family parties, one adult with angel wing. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - second summer

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 3 - Adults with 1 juvenile at end of conduit

Redmires Top Res: Little Grebe - 2 - 2 juveniles

Sothall: Peregrine - 1 - over at 1530hr mobbed by Lesser-b-b-gulls

Upper Burbage Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Whinchat - 5 ; Red Grouse - 1

Agden Side: Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Aldwarke: Mute Swan - 3 - 2 @ 0640 & 1 @ 0704hrs, all SW ; Herring Gull - 2 - SW ; Cormorant - 2 - SW @ 0715hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 2 - both apparently adults, sat on chimneys for most of morning.

Blackburn Meadows NR: Nuthatch - 1 - Caught and ringed. Only the 2nd one I've ever seen here in 40 years.

Cowell Flat: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling from Bracken. ; Snipe - 1

Dukes Road: Hobby - 2 - hawking insects Hurkling Stones-Hobson Moss-Hollingdale.

Kimberworth: House Martin - 6

Loxley Chase: Curlew - 3 - ad and 2 well grown chicks.

Mayfield Valley: Green Woodpecker - 1 - In field with Corvids on David Lane ; Swallow - 6 - Four fledged juveniles being fed by adults on junction of Foxhall Lane & Harrop Lane ; 324 - 1 - Brown Hare in field on Harrop Lane

Orgreave Lakes: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling from West Side main pond. ; Common Tern - 3 - feeding on main lake. ; Little Egret - 1 - feeding from island on smaller lake. ; Tufted Duck - 50+ ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ - inc Juvs ; Great Crested Grebe - 25 - 3 Juvs - 2 quite young ; Pochard - 17+ ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - 1+ Juv ; Greylag Goose - 9 ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; Linnet - 1 ; Swift - 10+ ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Juv - photo ID? ; Reed Bunting - 4 - Singing ; Wigeon - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lapwing - 9 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Whitethroat - 2 - 1 singing, 1 'scolding' ; Blackcap - 3 - 1 singing + 2 fully-grown juvs ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - 1 singing ; Linnet - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Sand Martin - 6 - feeding over ; Swift - 8 - feeding low over ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Goldfinch - 5 - inc full-grown juvs ; Sparrowhawk - 1+ - female circling over & calling excitedly on approach; 1+ juv calling from woodland

Peat Pits: Little Owl - 1 - on wires

Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 11 - At far end of conduit, mixture of females and young. ; Golden Plover - 8 - At far end of conduit with Red Grouse

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 3 - ad with 2 well-grown juvs on Top Res ; Canada Goose - 10 - 2 prs with 6 fledged juvs ; Greylag Goose - 32 - ads and fledged juvs ; Kestrel - 1 - male over Ocean View ; Moorhen - 2 - ad and juv on Top Res ; Oystercatcher - 2 - ads ; Common Sandpiper - 8 - inc ads and fledged juvs ; Lapwing - 25 - c. In fields ; Black-headed Gull - 35 - c. many left to the W ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 92 - on Middle Res ; Herring Gull - 8 - with LBBs ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad with LBBs ; Swift - 2 - Flew W ; Swallow - 5 - family party around Bottom Res - presumed pair nesting in dilapidated filter tanks ; Whitethroat - 5 - 2 family parties ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - ad seen briefly at breeding site ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling by Middle Res ; Stonechat - 2 - Juvs by Top Res ; Common Gull - 1 - ad on Middle Res ; Red Kite - 1 - drifted W at 08:30 hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male carrying food into Redmires Plantation ; Linnet - 1 - ad flushed of nest N of Ocean View ; Wheatear - 1 - juv N of Ocean View

Roundwood Golf course: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Herring Gull - 1 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SW ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 2+ - pair feeding young in phragmites on r/way line pond ; Moorhen - 2+ - pair with juvs on Woodlaithes duckpond ; Nuthatch - 4+ - at least two pairs bred

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - 6

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 44+5 cygnet ; Canada Goose - 82 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Lapwing - 4