Sightings Archive

Sunday 9th May 2021

• Manor Fields Park: Great Tit - 4+ - at least 2 active nests ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Whitethroat - 4+ - singing males ; Blackcap - 5 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - c4 - singing around park ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male
• Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 5 ; Whitethroat - 1 - doing display flight
• Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 pairs ; Swallow - c30 - Westerly movement from 18.00 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Curlew - 6 ; Hobby - 1 - North 19.05 ; Goosander - 1 - West 18.25 ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 2 pairs + male ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - a pair ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Snipe - 2 - Chasing over fields ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - possibly a White Wagtail
• Nether Haugh; Clay Hill: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 1 - NW ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 1pr - feeding in field-edge ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing
• Nether Haugh; Daniel Lane: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 4 - 1 (SK4396); 3 (SK4296), all singing ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 1 singing (SK4396); 4 inc 3 singing (SK4296) ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 7 - singing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 - W together ; Blackcap - 1 - calling ; Swallow - 1 - N ; Jay - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over, then W
• Old Ravenfield: House Martin - 2 - Gathering mud in farm gate. ; Lapwing - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Black Tern - 1 - Single dropped in at 07:00 and still present at 10am ; Whimbrel - 2 - Dropped on 'plains' at 08:00.Flew North at 08:30. ; Sanderling - 1 - Dropped on to East shore at 09:05. Still present 10am ; Dunlin - 3 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 - On northern Side. ; Shelduck - 1 - flew S at 08.30 ; Little Egret - 1 - SW corner then Flew S ; Black Tern - 1 - still present at 10.15 ; Sanderling - 1 ; Dunlin - 3 ; Whinchat - 1 - female between river and small lake ; Black Tern - 1 - showing v. well, 12.20 to 13.30 ; Knot - 1 - in summer plumage; showing v. well in n/w corner of main lake, 12.05-12.10, then in the s/e corner, 12.40 to 13.20, until disturbed by a dogwalker. ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Linnet - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Goosander - 2 - both male ; Swift - 30+ ; Skylark - 3 ; Common Tern - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Knot - 1 - In smart breeding plumage on SE shore of main lake at 12.30. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Mallard - 1+ - +8 ducklings ; Canada Goose - 1+ - +5 goslings ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - 50+ ; Skylark - 8 - Singing ; Black Tern - 1 ; Common Tern - 2 - photo with Black Tern ; Gadwall - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 9 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 - 1 still on nest on small island ; Knot - 1 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; House Martin - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Knot - 1 - photo ; Knot - 1 - In neat summer plumage ; Knot - 1 ; Sanderling - 1 ; Dunlin - 4
• Pingle Lane fields.: Lapwing - 8 - At least 4 pairs. ; Skylark - 3