Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 30

Ravenfield/Bramley: Barn Owl - 1 - Flying at side of Lidgett Lane at 22:10PM

Redmires: Cuckoo - 2 ; Siskin - 2 - Male and female feeding in tops of trees.

Redmires Bottom Res: Whitethroat - 1

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 46 - 20 ads + 4 broods of 26 young ; Canada Goose - 7 - Pair with 5 young ; Mallard - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 - calling from willows on Top Res ; Oystercatcher - 7 - 4 ads inc a pair with 3 young on Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 8 - 4 pairs ; Curlew - 6 ; Redshank - 1 - on Middle Res ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Cuckoo - 2 - calling ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - male still holding territory by Middle Res ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - by Top Res ; Grey Heron - 1 - ad flew E ; Swift - 14 - flew W

Rocher Bank plantation: Woodcock - 1+ - squeak and grunting ; Tawny Owl - 3+ - one adult heard hooting and 2 juvs heard squeaking

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 - out low from wood, E over Upper Common, 10:35.

Silverwood Lagoon: Coot - 2+ - pair with young brood of 3

Stanage Edge, below: Whimbrel - 1 - Calling ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling persistently from small plantation

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - 6

Wadsley: Swift - 7

Wadsley Common garden: Blue Tit - 2 - taking food to nest in crevice in wall. ; Great Tit - 4 - taking food to 2 separate nests. ; Wren - 2 - Nesting in outbuilding. ; Swallow - 2 - Investigating outbuilding. ; Swift - 4 - over

Wickersley: Blackbird - 1 - Totally white Blackbird rear of tanyard nr playing fields, collecting earthworms

Windy Bank plantation: Woodcock - 2+ - Grunting and squeaking ; Tawny Owl - 1 - hooting

Woodlands Valley: Grey Wagtail - 3 - Adult feeding fledged young on bank of R. Ashop.

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 ; Wood Warbler - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1

Arbourthorne: Moorhen - 8 - 2 adults 6 chicks on pond ; Mallard - 5 ; Starling - 70+ - adults and juveniles. Flock size increasing. ; Swift - c18 - all high east ahead of rain c17:00

Brinsworth: Greenfinch - 2 - Adult Male feeding youngster from observers garden 09.15

Brownhills Lane: Greylag Goose - 32 ; Canada Goose - 2

Firsby Res: Coot - 5+ - 4 adults 1 chick. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Juv on sluice. ; Black-headed Gull - 15+ - Down on newly scraped set aside field. No grass/bushes or saplings left. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6+ - With BHG. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Down with other Gulls. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stock Dove - 6 - Down in set aside field. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Swift - 3 ; Skylark - 3+ - Singing. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing Males. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Linnet - 10+ ; Whitethroat - 5+ - Singing. ; Reed Warbler - 2 - Pair still calling in sluice Reed bed. ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Cottage garden.

Litton: Swift - 35 - Feeding over cemetery

Norfolk Heritage Park: Stock Dove - 2 - adults at artificial nest box

Norfolk Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - parent delivering food to nestling(s) in hole in dead Ash tree by Park Grange tram stop

Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 1 - Inlet ; Mute Swan - 5 - Ringed pair 7764 & 0717 with 3 juvs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 4 - 2m & 2f, visiting feeders

Redmires Bottom Res: Willow Warbler - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Starling - 200+ - In field high above to the south ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; 319 - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Linnet - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Canada Goose - 26 ; Greylag Goose - 27 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Curlew - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Shelduck - 1 - north at 07.40

Wadsley: Swift - 10

Wyming Brook: Pied Flycatcher - 1

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 2

Bradfield Dale: Red Kite - 1 - Over Gibralter Rocks

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Cowell Flat: Little Owl - 1

Greystones: Starling - 25+ - 22+ Juveniles in observer's garden - a garden record. All appear independent & feeding themselves. ; Swift - 1

Handsworth Garden: Starling - 14 - 14 juveniles feeding on bread

Heeley: Collared Dove - 2 - pair copulating on garden fence this evening.

Hemsworth: Hobby - 1 - Heading NW, low over rooftops and gardens, Blackstock Rd, at 09:05