Sightings Archive

Scholes Coppice: Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ - 2 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Wadsley Common: Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 4

Watergrove: Oystercatcher - 3

Wire Mill Dam: Mallard - 8+ - including female with 4 fresh chicks ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - noisy pair

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - still present

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Linnet - 2

Bents Green: Blackcap - 2+ - Singing in "The Common" (Common Lane)

Birley Farm/ Chapelwheel Dam: Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 - Including pair ; 319 - 1

Burbage Valley: Wheatear - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Ring Ouzel - 6 - At least 6, including 2 singing and pair nest building

Cowell Flat: Wheatear - 5 - 3 males and 2 females foraging on disturbed ground near Agden Side Road

Crosspool-Den Bank Wood: Brambling - 2 - M&F ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Calling ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Robin - 7 - Singing ; Wren - 5 - Singing ; Greenfinch - 4 - Calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing from adjacent garden ; Coal Tit - 1 - On feeder ; Great Tit - 4 - Calling ; Blue Tit - 7 ; Jay - 1 - Calling ; Dunnock - 3 - Calling ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Bullfinch - 3 - 2m & 1f

Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 3 ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair seen together

Damflask Res: Swallow - 2

Firsby Res: Whitethroat - 2 - In hedgerow Garden lane, feeding also subsong heard ; Willow Warbler - 8 - c8 singing ; Blackcap - 4 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 7 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male, singing. ; Mallard - 1 - Drake ; Coot - 6 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Kestrel - 2 - One feeding on prey, on top of power line pole. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Mobbing Buzzard in tree. ; 319 - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Siskin - 2 - pair ; Mallard - 2 - pair hoovering fallen seeds under feeders ; 319 - 2 - overhead, much calling ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - circling over

High Bradfield: Brambling - 1 - calling in trees along northern edge of churchyard

Holdworth: Curlew - 3 - display flights

Keppels Field: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing, adj to Scholes Coppice

Kimberworth Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling from bottom of Grey Hill, briefly over to Roughwood School

Linacre Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 12 ; Blackcap - 1

Longshaw: Redstart - 1 - 1 singing male

Malin Bridge: Common Buzzard - 4 - 2 low over, 2 more distant ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - soaring

Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 7+ - At least 7 in field from rough track to hide on No 4 lagoon ; Shoveler - 2 - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 3 - Pair plus intruder ; Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; 320 - 10

Morley Pond: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing, S side

Orgreave Lakes: Garden Warbler - 1 - In willows, close to Rother footbridge, Treeton bank. ; Little Egret - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Skylark - 15 ; Goosander - 3 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Redshank - 1

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - 2 singing males

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 5 - soaring over @ 1255hrs, drifting N; 2 returned S/SE

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over towards cemetery from E ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - carrying food; left towards cemetery

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 2 ; Mallard - 14 - inc female with 8 young ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1