Sightings Archive

Oughtibridge: Yellowhammer - 1 - male with mouthful of insects.

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Kestrel - 1 - circling high over ; Sparrowhawk - present - quiet calling from woodland

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Swift - c20 - circling over around 0915hrs; drifted away W/SW

Rivelin Valley: Kestrel - 3 - Adult flying with 2 juveniles over Coppice Lane .Both calling for food still.

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Spout House Hill: Golden Plover - 7 - in recently cut hayfield. ; Lapwing - 1 - recently deceased juvenile.

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over N end

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - up and singing from wheat field

Wharncliffe Side: Pheasant - 1+ - female with several fledged juveniles in roadside verge .

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 2 - 1 juvenile ; Kestrel - 2 - seen together

Burncross, Chapeltown: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Swift - 5

Foxhill, Shaw Hill: Swift - 6+

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Observer's garden ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Swift - 3 ; Magpie - 3 - 1 juv

Kimberworth Park: Swift - 10 - Low over roof tops of Shearman Avenue/ Ashworth Drive - junction with Rhodes Avenue ; Black-headed Gull - 20+ - football pitches @ Barkers Park ; House Sparrow - c10 - mainly adults feeding adj hawthorn hedge, behind Redscope School ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - @ Hampstead Green ; Blackbird - 1 - female, mauled by cat, attracting attention of Carrion Crows, near Great Park Road

Langsett Res: Swallow - c20 ; Cormorant - 1

Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing

Midhope Res: Common Sandpiper - 5 ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - c10 - feeding low over water ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sand Martin - c15 - Feeding with House Martins ; Siskin - 1 ; 320 - 4 ; Swift - 5 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - singles west ; Greylag Goose - 60 ; Canada Goose - 1

Midhopestones: Swallow - 2 - juvs on wires

Norton Lees: 319 - 1 - circling over Derbyshire Lane before soaring off ; Swift - 1 - very high

Orgreave Lakes: Common Scoter - 1 - Drake early morning ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3rd sum ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 3rd sum ; Common Scoter - 1 - Drake

Sheephill Road: Oystercatcher - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 6+ - at least 6 (3 adults) ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8

Underbank Res: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Song Thrush - 3 - 2 singing ; Black-headed Gull - 15 - incl 4 juvs ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 2

Botanical Gardens: Carrion Crow - 16 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - heard

Orgreave Lakes: Black-tailed Godwit - 12 - 12 birds circled site twice at 10:20 before flying off south ; Black-tailed Godwit - 12 - second picture ; Little Grebe - 2

Parkgate: House Martin - 1 - Barbot Hall Ind Est ; Swift - 2 - Barbot Hall Ind Est ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 3 - 2 juveniles with adult ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Swallow - 3 ; Swift - 1 ; House Martin - 12 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Lapwing - 1

Redmires Top Res: Greylag Goose - 17 ; Little Grebe - 2 - Adult feeding juvenile

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Common Sandpiper - 6 ; Black-tailed Godwit - 12 - adults

Blackburn Meadows: Little Egret - 1 - Beside weir by Jordans lock. ; Little Egret - 1 - second picture ; 324 - 1 - American Mink hunting in undergrowth around weir beside Jordans lock

Brightside weir: Dipper - 1 - Adult feeding downstream side of weir. ; Kingfisher - 1

Graves Park: Mandarin - 1+ - 1f with 11 well-grown young

Langsett Res: Canada Goose - 112 ; Oystercatcher - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Red Kite - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4

Lodge Moor garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male plucking siskin on lawn. Flew off taking prey when disturbed.