Sightings Archive

Redmires Top Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - 3 adults and a juv late afternoon ; Kestrel - 2

Thorpe Hesley: Swallow - 4 ; House Martin - 15 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - With Tit flock ; Greenfinch - 4

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 2 - flying around heath and crags calling ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - flycatching in silver birch

Attercliffe: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40+ - inc two Norwegian colour rings, a 1cy and a 3cy. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - adults Warren St ; Yellow-legged Gull - 02-Mar - adult Warren St and at least one 1cy Effingham St. ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - Dutch ringed 1cy on roof at Warren St briefly pm.

Midhope Res: 320 - 37 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; House Martin - c200 ; Swallow - c70 ; Whinchat - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Red-crested Pochard - 2 - On Small Lake early morning ; Red-crested Pochard - 2 ; Red-crested Pochard - 2 - second picture

Thrybergh CP: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 48 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; Black-headed Gull - c100 ; Lapwing - 78 ; Gadwall - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swallow - 14 ; Chiffchaff - 18+ ; Whitethroat - 5 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Feeding on filterbed ; Blackcap - 3 ; Starling - 80 - Around village small roost in Reed bed ; Blackbird - 22 ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Robin - 8 ; Dunnock - 10 ; Goldfinch - 70+ - Two feeding flocks ; Chaffinch - 14 ; Linnet - 60+ - Very good numbers of passerines in Park this morning ; Greenfinch - 10 ; Yellowhammer - 10 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Great Tit - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1m ; Kestrel - 1f ; 319 - 6 - Possible young bird begging for food

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Swallow - 6 - including parents feeding young ; 319 - 1

Cinder Bridge Plantation: Kestrel - 1+ - adult male with 1+ still dependent juv on woodland edge

Cinder Bridge to Glossop Lodge: Tawny Owl - 1 - dead on road ; Stock Dove - 1 ; House Sparrow - c20 - flock, in field edge

Dog Kennel Pond: Mute Swan - 1pr - both ads, left W/SW ; Moorhen - 7+ ; Coot - 9+ ; Mallard - c120 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - c60 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing, N shore ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - moulting m & f ; Jay - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 20 ; 320 - 1 ; Woodpigeon - c150 - flock, S shore

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Main Res. ; Grey Heron - 1 - in set aside field. ; Kingfisher - 2 - Lots of calling. ; Black-headed Gull - 8 - Over. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - Over farmland. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Over. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by 2 Jays next to path. Flew into Willows. ; 319 - 2 - Together in woodland. ; Peregrine - 1 - Flew from pylon towards Ravenfield Park. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling from telegraph pole. ; Swallow - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling. ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Mobbing Tawny.

Greasbrough Dam: Mallard - c80 ; Moorhen - 13 ; Black-headed Gull - 8 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Coot - 12 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - calling ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling from Typha off S shore ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 - in field to N

High Riggs, Stannington: Peregrine - 1 - young male skimming low over fields worrying Starlings