Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 10+ ; Common Tern - 1 - Second year bird? ; Common Tern - 1 - Second picture. ; Little Egret - 6 ; Little Egret - 6 - Second picture.

R Don, Effingham St: Great Tit - 1 - ad feeding 2+ chicks

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 7 - 6 adults circling over, 1 juvenile in horse fields

Slippery Stones: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk

Thrybergh CP: Little Egret - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female hunting low over wheat crop ; Swift - 10+ - low over fields ; Whitethroat - 1

Upper Derwentdale: Tawny Owl - 3p - chicks calling at 3 different sites on W side Ladybower-Howden Res after dark

Wortley: Long-tailed Tit - 57 - Large post-breeding group, mainly juvs, with BT, GT, WW and Nuthatch also ; Blue Tit - c20

Burbage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Aerial altercation with a Kestrel over S part of the edge.

Cavendish Mill: Rook - 80 - c. in fields

Derwent Edge: Whinchat - 3 - A juvenile above Cutthroat Bridge and a male and female likely feeding a nest in a Bracken field below Derwent Edge ; Stonechat - 10 - 10+ with 4 juveniles ; Meadow Pipit - 20 ; Tree Pipit - 2 ; Linnet - 4 - At least 2 juveniles seen ; Siskin - 3 - 2 males and juvenile near Cutthroat bridge ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Red Grouse - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Kestrel - 1 - male ; Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Greylag Goose - 1+ ; Mallard - 1+ ; Coot - 1+ ; Moorhen - 1+ - including adult carrying food across lily pads ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Swallow - c30 ; Grey Wagtail - 1+

Firsby Res: Coot - 3 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Juvs on sluice. ; Barn Owl - 1 - Near houses at dusk. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Swallow - 4+ ; House Martin - 5+ - Low over surrounding crops. ; Skylark - 2 ; Whitethroat - 8+ - 2 parties of fledgings. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling in woodland. ; Stock Dove - 1

Ladybower Res: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; House Martin - 20 - C20 visiting nest sites below Ashopton Viaduct

Low Common: Swallow - 10+ - adults and juvs, several resting on branches, high in canopy of copse. ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ - calls from copse ; Blue Tit - 1+ - calls from copse ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calls from copse

Loxley Valley: Dipper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3

Middleton Moor: Greylag Goose - 11 ; Canada Goose - 5 ; Shelduck - 8 - pair with 6 well-grown young ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - ad ; Curlew - 25 - roosted ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 795 - c. roosted - many late arrivals ; Yellow-legged Gull - 13 - 12 ads / near ads + 2 CY ; Black-headed Gull - 49 - roosted ; Sand Martin - 20 - c. roosted ; Pied Wagtail - 20 - c. roosted ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ - adults and juvs ; Grey Heron - 7 - a group ,of probably juvs, in field W of Peacock Lodge farm, along with 50+ corvid mix ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Mandarin - 1 - female ; Mallard - 40+ ; Tufted Duck - 20+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Whimbrel - 5 - SW at 08:15 ; Pochard - 38

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling from canopy ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Swift - 3 - S/SW ; Goldcrest - 1 - calling ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Swallow - 2 - adults, feeding over playing field

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 5 - in garden

Redmires Bottom Res: Crossbill - 6+ - feeding quietly in conifers

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - calling

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 6 - max, on pylon overlooking ponds

RVCP: 320 - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 140 ; Sand Martin - 150 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Egyptian Goose - 3

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1+ - one low through wood, with calls heard also, possibly juvs?

Silverwood Lagoon: Siskin - 1 - Calling above entrance gate. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Flew from Pit Top into woods next to Woodlaithes.

Staveley Works: Green Woodpecker - 1

Treeton Dyke: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2