Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Pochard - 50+ - M&F ; Black-headed Gull - 250+ ; Tufted Duck - 40+ - M&F ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 - 2 Juv ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 80+ ; Gadwall - 10+ - M&F ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 22+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; Wheatear - 3 - On tip early morning. ; Raven - 1

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - 41+ - + 13 juvs ; Black-headed Gull - 13 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Mute Swan - 48 - inc 3 from Eastwood Lock

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Tree Pipit - 2 - SW together, calling @ 0715hrs ; Sand Martin - 2 - W ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Canada Goose - 3 - S @ 0750hrs ; Greenfinch - 1 - E ; Song Thrush - 1

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Pied Wagtail - 1 - on pavement

Parkgate; Scrooby Lane to Glossop Lodge: Chiffchaff - 4 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Moorhen - 2+ - 1 calling; 1 1cy + 1+ dependent juv ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Swallow - 5

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 3

R Don, Eastwood: Mallard - c35 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Cormorant - 4 - left upriver

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - NW @ 1145hrs

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Siskin - 01-Feb - heard over

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 - 5 ads, 1 2cy & 1 juv on playing field ; Herring Gull - 1 - adult, with LBs ; Black-headed Gull - 7 - 5 ads; 2 1cy ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Magpie - 4

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Blackcap - 1 - calling

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - female ; Blackcap - 1

Redmires Res: Merlin - 1 - Ad male over Roper Hill ; Kestrel - 3 ; 319 - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 35 - c. ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - S calling ; Siskin - 60 - Flew NE

Rother Valley CP: Yellow Wagtail - 1

Roundwood Golf course: Jay - 1

Spout House Hill: 319 - 6 - All in a closely spaced group. Sometimes two or three in synchronous turning flight. Lasted 10 mins approx.

Stone Moor/Stocksbridge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - observers first up here for many years ; Kestrel - 2 - Hunting over rough grassland ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Swallow - 04-May ; Redstart - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Robin - 1

Swanheight: Meadow Pipit - c50 - in a number of flocks ; Red Grouse - 1 - Flushed by dog that was itself being chased by the resident herd of cows and calves. ; Goldfinch - 2+

Tinsley: Swift - 5 - Crossed low over M1 close to j35 13.30 ; 319 - 2

Treeton Dyke: Red-crested Pochard - 1 - m still there

Walker Edge: Kestrel - 2 - hovering ; Meadow Pipit - c60 - several post breeding flocks in heather and perched on walls ; Stonechat - 4 - family party ; Stonechat - 4 - family party ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing in birch tree ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 - In pasture/silage field next to Walker Edge Road

Walkley garden: Whitethroat - 1 - single immature in Garrya and pear tree

White Lee Moor: Wren - 1 ; Crossbill - 2+ ; Coal Tit - c10 - A single flock in conifer plantation ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1

Blacka Moor: Stonechat - 6 ; Whinchat - 4 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 - Another photo

Blackwell Hall: Mandarin - 25 - fem/juv/eclipse drakes on small pond

Bramley: Swift - 1 - Single over Flanderwell Avenue. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Coming to garden feeding station. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Coming to garden feeding station.

Chee Tor: Whinchat - 1

Coombs Dale: 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Swallow - 12+ ; Redstart - 3 - Females / juvs ; Redstart - 3 - 2nd photo ; Jay - 2