Sightings Archive

Monday 2nd May 2022

• Firsby Res: Goldfinch - 3+ ; Greenfinch - 2 - Not a common record at this site. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing Males. ; Goldcrest - 1 - In woodland near road.
• Forge Dam: Blackcap - 1 - male singing
• Grange: Whitethroat - 1 - song and display over bramble patch in former car park ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing, Behind 8th tee
• Holbrook Marsh: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing male ; Whitethroat - 2 - Singing male ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing male ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing male ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing males ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing male
• Longstone Edge: Redstart - 7 - Singing ; Garden Warbler - 3 - Singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling
• Longstone Moor: Stonechat - 1 - Male ; Wheatear - 1 - Male
• Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 2 - Still two singing
• Moorwood Farm, Stannington: Lapwing - 2 - 1 adult with 1 chick in horse pasture on north side of Moorwood Lane
• Orgreave Lakes: Wood Sandpiper - 1 - present until 06.00 ; Whimbrel - 1 - Came from the south and looked to have landed on the plains ; Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 8 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Wheatear - 2 - 2 male Greenland's on the plains ; Wheatear - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Goosander - 1 - Male in river ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing ; Little Egret - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 15 - 1 on nest on edge of island ; Black-headed Gull - 45+ ; Swallow - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Sand Martin - 10+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 25+ ; Skylark - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Usual bird feeding again along length of weir. ; Lapwing - 7 ; Gadwall - 11 ; Pochard - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - Males singing ; Shoveler - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Linnet - 8 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 ; Canada Goose - 20+ - Sitting on nests + 1 pair had 3 goslings
• Porter Valley: Whitethroat - 1 - Mark Lane
• Redmires: Linnet - 5 ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 3 - reeling ; Snipe - 1 - drumming ; Herring Gull - 11 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Swallow - 4
• Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 20 - c. including 3 prs with 12 young ; Moorhen - 2 - 1 on nest by Top Res + 1 on small pond in Hammonds Field ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 3 - reeling by Middle Res ; Common Buzzard - 1 - carrying food into Redmires Plantation by Bottom Res ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Curlew - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 25 - c. ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Redstart - 2 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - males drumming in plantations by Top, Middle and Bottom Reservoirs
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 - displaying
• Rocher Flat: Oystercatcher - 1
• RVCP, Main Lake: Arctic Tern - 2 - Flew north
• Silver Wood: Cuckoo - 1 - singing towards Hollings Lane end of disused r/way line at 08.00
• Silverwood Lagoon: House Martin - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 12+ - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 2 - circled then north at 10.00 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Sparrowhawk - 1
• Stanley Hill: Wheatear - 1 - male on fence post ; Linnet - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2
• Upper Commons: Hobby - 2 - catching insects and up together between Margery Hill and Brusten Croft. ; Whimbrel - 1 - over E calling at 15:45
• Wadsley Common garden: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 3 - still in and out of outbuilding
• Walkworth Wood: Whitethroat - 1 - singing
• Wharncliffe Chase: Lapwing - 06-Jul - Very territorial, assumed young present but not seen. ; Green Woodpecker - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 47 - Widespread singing and territorial behaviour ; Tree Pipit - 22 - Numerous singing/display and foraging on ground.