Sightings Archive

Thursday 14th May 2020

• Orgreave Lakes: Great Crested Grebe - 8 - Couple courting, but no dancing ; Canada Goose - 20+ - 5 goslings ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Male ; 324 - 1+ - Common Blue Damselfly ; Black-headed Gull - 90+ ; Goosander - 1 - Male ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Males ; Skylark - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Gadwall - 4 - M&F ; Lapwing - 2 ; Redshank - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8+ ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - On island ; Goosander - 1 - Drake ; Pochard - 1 - Drake ; Common Sandpiper - 2
• Pit-house West: Reed Warbler - 5+ - singing
• Ravenfield: Lapwing - 2 - diving and singing in the fields off Braithwell Road
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Dunnock - 1+ - + 4 juvs. Still surviving!
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin Incline: Chaffinch - 2 - 1 singing (SK4395); 1 singing (SK4396) ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+ - 1 (SK4395); 2+ (SK4396) ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Pheasant - 2 - 1 (SK4395); 1 (SK4396), both cocks ; Lapwing - 2 - over adjacent field ; Kestrel - 1 - over adjacent field ; Song Thrush - 4 - inc 1 singing
• Redmires conduit: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair with beaks full of food. Must be youngsters somewhere. ; Willow Warbler - 5+ - Seem to be a lot singing at the moment ; Curlew - 2+ - flying and calling ; Lapwing - 10+ - Lots of activity in the usual place ; Greylag Goose - 8 - Two with six young
• Redmires Top Res: Woodcock - 1 - feeding in roadside plantation
• Redscope Plantation: Woodpigeon - 2+ - singing ; Wren - 3+ - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Rivelin Dams: Tree Sparrow - 2 - pair at nest hole Ronksley Hall Farm
• Rother Valley CP: Lesser Whitethroat - 4 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2+ - crazy nest in pole by suspension bridge ; Swift - 50+ - with House and Sand Martins ; House Martin - 30+ ; Sand Martin - 30+ ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard S ; Pochard - 1
• Shirebrook Valley: Willow Tit - 1 - Singing Male
• Snake Pass: Tree Pipit - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; House Martin - 4 - feeding over farm ; Swallow - 2 - feeding over River Ashop ; Redstart - 1 - singing male in a traditional territory ; Song Thrush - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Siskin - 50+ - throughout the woodland and clear fell ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Crossbill - 5 - at least 3 juveniles/non-breeding birds and 1 male ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing male ; Raven - 1 - Displaying and Cronking noisily ; Raven - 1 - Displaying and Cronking noisily ; Meadow Pipit - 40+ - Displaying, Feeding and Nest Building observed ; Snipe - 1 - "chipping" from reeds ; Lapwing - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 16 ; Curlew - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 7 ; Pheasant - 1 - calling ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Wren - 5 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 9 - singing males and visiting nests with food ; Blackbird - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 25 ; House Martin - 4
• Tin Mill Fishery: Grey Wagtail - 3 - Pair carrying food ; Pintail - 1 - Drake still present - appears to be resident and therefore of dubious origins ; Mallard - 5 - Female with 4 ducklings