Sightings Archive

Friday 15th April 2022

• Firsby Res: Gadwall - 2 - Pair. ; 319 - 2 - Circling high. ; Jay - 1 - Call only. ; Blackbird - 1 - Sitting Female ; Willow Warbler - 3 - All singing. ; Blackcap - 5+ - All Males. ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Skylark - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Linnet - 3 - Over.
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 5 - still visiting feeders
• Great Hucklow: Swallow - 1
• High Green: Greenfinch - 4 - Group together, one singing ; Starling - 1 - Singing and visiting traditional nest site under roof tiles. Song mimicking Tawny Owl at times
• Malin Bridge: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing weakly in gardens, and feeding in catkins.
• Middleton Moor: Marsh Harrier - 1 - f hunting over reeds before eventually departing to N. ; Cormorant - 1 - Swimming on lagoon ; 320 - 7 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Wheatear - 4
• Midhope Res area: Curlew - 10+ - Feeding in fields off Midhope Hall Lane, several flying back to Midhope Moor. ; Song Thrush - 6+ ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Little Grebe - 5 ; 319 - 2 ; Linnet - 3 ; 321 - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - east ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Snipe - 1 - chipping/display ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Whooper Swan - 1 - Undertook short flight plus irritating Mallards/Little Grebe ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 7 - 4m,3f ; 320 - 1 male ; Lapwing - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 male ; Skylark - 1 singing
• Nether Green garden: Willow Warbler - 1 - feeding in birch again
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 6 - 5 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Willow Warbler - 5 - singing ; Chaffinch - 3 - 2 singing m; 1f ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - presumed pair, over breeding woodland ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - aerial display & calling
• Orgreave Lakes: Sandwich Tern - 2 - briefly at 09:00 then left high west ; Brambling - 1 - between two bridges - first site record
• Padley: Redstart - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 ; Tree Pipit - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 5+ - 'loads'
• Peat Pits: Swallow - 1
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr - alarming with nest nearby (same birds seen in garden recently)
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Mistle Thrush - 1pr - carrying food towards cemetery ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, Rectory Fields allotments ; Herring Gull - 2 - NE ; Common Buzzard - 2 - NW @ 1400hrs ; Raven - 1 - S @ 1405hrs ; Swallow - 3 - 2+1, over briefly
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Blackcap - 3 - 2 singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Herring Gull - 5 - 2 ads + 3 imms, circled then NW ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Kestrel - 3 - 2m; 1f over adjacent field; some interaction ; Lapwing - 2 - displaying over adjacent field ; Sparrowhawk - 1pr - soaring over together (presumed cemetery pair)
• Redmires Middle Res: Snipe - 3 - at least 2 drumming ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling early morning ; 320 - 2 - pair ; Reed Bunting - 4 - incl 2 singing ; Wheatear - 1
• Redmires Top Res: Osprey - 1 - Circling over top res, being mobbed by a pair of Buzzards, before drifting north. ; Mallard - 2+ - including female with 9 fresh chicks
• Redscope Plantation: Blackcap - 2 - singing, S end ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing, inc 1 S end ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - calls ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing
• Scholes Coppice: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 3+ - singing ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Robin - 4 - singing