Recent news
25 April 2024
Agden Rocher: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffle ; Willow Warbler - 4+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 4+ - singing ; Blackcap - 1 ; Curlew - 1 - calling ; Raven - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1Barlow: Kingfisher - 1 ; House Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 5+ ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2+ - 2-3 ; Tufted Duck - 1
Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Flew NW from obs.garden, Cross Hill
Foxlow Ponds: Snipe - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ;
, Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Gadwall - 2 Grouse Inn: Snipe - 1+ - chipping ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing male ; Tawny Owl - 1 - in plantation ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling
Longshaw: Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male ; Snipe - 2+ - one chipping
Low Bradfield: Heron - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming
Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 2 - Male and Female ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - Flew from north shore on to building site. ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - inc 2 White Wagtails ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 6 ;
, Goosander - 4 ; 
, Swallow - c30 ; 
, Sand Martin - c40 ; House Martin - 9 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - 2 eating Canada Goose eggs. ; 
, Herring Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Swift - 3 Redmires Middle Res: Swallow - 7+ - Feeding low over res at 19:30
Tankersley - Black Lane: Gadwall - 14 ; Coot - 10 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Linnet - 4 - 2 pairs ; Yellowhammer - 2
24 April 2024
Agden Rocher: Ring Ouzel - 4 ; Wheatear - 4 ; Mandarin - 2Bamford Edge: Red Kite - 1
Cinder Hills: Lesser Redpoll - 6+ - feeding in tree tops
Cutthroat Bridge: Crossbill - 5 - In tops of conifers at end of layby
Derwent Edge: Ring Ouzel - 4+ - Two males, two females including a female appearing to visit a nest ; Wheatear - 4+
Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 3, "inviting" display ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Gadwall - 1 - male ; Herring Gull - 2
Endcliffe Park: Blackcap - 1 - Male by upper lake
Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling over Remount Road/Shearman Avenue
Low Common: Kestrel - 1 ; Buzzard - 1 - low W across field from Rockingham Wood
Middle Common: Buzzard - 1 - onto central telegraph pole
Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - including pair "head shaking" displat ; Cormorant - 2 - circling over Cascades ; Mute Swan - 2 - pair on W island, later Y316 feeding at E end of lake
Orgreave Lakes: Great Crested Grebe - 28 - including one sitting on nest small lake ; Goldeneye - 1 - female large lake ; Yellow Wagtail - 1+ - calling overhead ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Swallow - 20 ; Sand Martin - 40 ; House Martin - 1 ; Teal - 1 - male ; Mute Swan - 2 - pair at nest on island ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing by Rother ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing by Rother ; Skylark - 12 - singing ; Redshank - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 18
Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - Both on wall between top and middle res