Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Dunlin - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 11 - 11 juvs ; Peregrine - 1 - juv ; Common Scoter - 1 - Drake still

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 8 - resident pair and 6 juvs ; Canada Goose - 21 - NW at 09.15 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - south ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 4 - family party soaring over southern end of pit top ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Jay - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - still a couple singing on and off ; Linnet - 20+ - several small parties around pit top ; Carrion Crow - 11 - family parties of 5 & 6

Sothall: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig sound recorded 0157hr

Strines Moor: Wheatear - 4

Thrybergh Res: 319 - 2 - Juveniles together in Ash downstream from dam. ; Kestrel - 1 - Juvenile on pump house roof.

Wadsley: Swift - 16

Barnside Moor: Hobby - 1 - Sat on posts.

Carr House Meadows NR: Swift - 4 ; Swallow - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - feamale following hedgerow after small birds ; Tawny Owl - 1 - flew accross field intt conifers ; Goldcrest - 1 - In conifers ; Blue Tit - 4+ - 04-Jun

Cutthroat Bridge: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Ecclesall: Swift - 72 - flew N in 10 minutes

Froggatt: 337 - 1 - reported over at 08:00

Graves Park: Tufted Duck - 1+ - Excellent breeding season with three broods

Morehall Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - on fresh mud uncovered by falling water level ; Cormorant - 3 - Basking on shoreline ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 30+ ; Mallard - 20+ ; Canada Goose - 7 ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Carrion Crow - 4

Moscar Moor: Red Kite - 1 - Mobbed by Kestrels and later by a pair of Ravens. ; Raven - 2 ; Kestrel - 6 ; 319 - 1 ; House Martin - 2 - (No sign of Lammergeier between 7.00 and 9.00)

Orgreave Lakes: Common Scoter - 1 - Drake still present this morning ; Common Scoter - 1 - drake still at 12.15 on main lake ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 - juvs ; Common Sandpiper - 1

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2s on Warren St roof

Redmires Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling south side of Middle Reservoir ; Moorhen - 1 - juv on Middle Res - confirmed breeding is scarce here ; Dunlin - 2 - in summer plumage on Bottom Res early a.m. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 80 - c. ; Black-headed Gull - 56 - mostly W

Sothall: Oystercatcher - 2+ - nocmig sound recorded 2306hr

Stubley Hollow: Jackdaw - 54 ; Greenfinch - 18 ; Swift - 3 ; Swallow - 8 ; House Martin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3

Upper Midhope: House Martin - c40 - Feeding over village and surrounding fields 7.30am

Kimberworth Park: Black-headed Gull - 50+ - feeding on recently cut football pitches

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 580 - c. roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 130 - c. roosted ; Yellow-legged Gull - 12 - ads / near ads in LBB roost ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad roosted ; Shelduck - 4 - 2 ads + 2 juvs

Orgreave Lakes: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Flew north following line of river Rother, circled Catcliffe Flash briefly then continued north. ; Common Scoter - 1 - drake on Big Lake at 08:25 ; Common Scoter - 1 - north end of main lake, 12.20 - 12.50 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Skylark - 2 ; Linnet - c. 6 ; House Martin - 2 ; Pochard - 1 ; Sand Martin - 10+ ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Probable; adult on large lake for short period early morning then flew NW before it could be confirmed. ; Yellow Wagtail - 5 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - 2 seen by observer, another observer reported 3 ; Goosander - 11 - 11 redheads on the small lake at dawn. Presumably the same birds previously reported at Woodhouse Washlands. ; Little Egret - 1 ; Common Scoter - 1 - Drake

Redmires Bottom Res: Ringed Plover - 2 - adults ; Dunlin - 1 - ad ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - imm

Redmires Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - moulting ad with LBBs ; Curlew - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 57