Sightings Archive

Lodge Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - pair, regularly at feeders recently ; Siskin - 4+ - monopolising feeders of late ; Brambling - 1 - Regularly last days at garden feeder

Low Hall Wood, High Green: Chiffchaff - 1 ; 319 - 3 - Circling together

Middleton Moor: 320 - 4 ; Coot - 5 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Lapwing - 16 ; Curlew - 64 - roosted including colour ringed bird ; Shelduck - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Magpie - 22 - roosted in hawthorns ; Fieldfare - 4 ; Black-tailed Godwit - 1

Middlewood: Kingfisher - 02-Mar - pair courtship feeding just north of Rocher Bridge. Another sighting c400m further upstream

Orgreave Lakes: Common Scoter - 1 - Female present at dawn ; Little Ringed Plover - 5 ; Ringed Plover - 3 ; Curlew - 2 - In at 08:00 ; Sand Martin - 150 - In two tightly packed groups during a snowstorm ; Swallow - 1 ; Common Scoter - 1 - showing well early afternoon ; Wheatear - 4 - one male showing very well ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 02-Mar ; Redshank - 1 ; Skylark - 7+ ; Sand Martin - 15+ ; Linnet - 2

Redmires Top Res: Little Grebe - 2 - still there

Ringinglow: Meadow Pipit - 25+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Shepherd*s Plantation: Blackcap - 1 - singing

Upper Common, Scholes: Black-headed Gull - c100 - following tractor plough

White Lee Moor: Crossbill - 15+ ; Siskin - 20+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 2+

Barlow: Stock Dove - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1

Beighton Marsh NR: Chiffchaff - 5 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Wren - 3 ; 319 - 1

Blacka Moor: Lapwing - 1 - I Strawberry Lee Pasture ; Blackcap - 1 - 1 male singing Shorts Lane

Blacka Plantation: Willow Warbler - 1 - 1 singing ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - On broken wall above Strawberry Lee Farm

Bray Plantation: Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 2 - 1 pair, SK394945 ; Blue Tit - 1 - pos nest site,hole in tree SK393945 ; Nuthatch - 3 - inc 1 pair S of central f/p ; Treecreeper - 2 - singing

Burbage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - 1m ; Stonechat - 2

Burbage Valley: Wheatear - 1 - Near fenced-off area at southern end of north eastern rocks.

Canklow Woods: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 5 - 5 in the air together 1150

Catcliffe Flash: Tufted Duck - 13 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Shoveler - 1 - M ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 16 ; Gadwall - 10+ ; Mute Swan - 3 - resident pair plus interloper 296Y (red). Lots of violent interaction! ; Moorhen - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Coot - c25 - several nestbuilding ; Mallard - 7 - 2prs + 3m

Cutthorpe: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 3 - feeding at open grassy area on west side of Highshaw Clough. One of the males and the female sometimes feeding close together, presumably paired ; Stonechat - 2 - pair, male singing

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Down in horse paddock. ; 319 - 1 - Circling and calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming in woodland. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Linnet - 6 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male. ; Willow Warbler - 1 - First record of the year. ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Skylark - 4 ; Lapwing - 2 - Calling and displaying over farmland. ; Reed Bunting - / ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 - Sitting on nest in Rose bush. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Pair.