Recent news
01 May 2024
Barnside Moor: Stonechat - 4 - 2 pairs ; Curlew - 3 - Song/display ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ - Display ; Golden Plover - 1 - Heard callingBeeley Wood: Dipper - 1
Deepcar: Grey Wagtail - 1
Dog Kennel Pond: Common Tern - 2 - at rest, centre of lake, one preening on exposed rock
Elsecar Res: Grey Heron - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Landed in deep section of water to catch a fish, then mobbed by BHG as it flew away. ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing
Langsett Res: Song Thrush - 3 - All singing ; Swallow - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - All singing
Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 3 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Snipe - 4 - Chipping/display ; Skylark - 1 - Singing
Midhope Res: Tufted Duck - 2 - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 8 - All singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Crossbill - 4 ; Song Thrush - 6 - All singing ; Siskin - 3 ; Swallow - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - Flew from roadside into woods. ; Coal Tit - 2 - Singing ; Coot - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing
Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 7 - soaring high over & interacting @ 1230hrs; 6 drifted away N, 7th left SE
Redmires: Snipe - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 8 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Red Grouse - 2
Tankersley - Black Lane: Goldcrest - 1 - Singing ; Grey Heron - 1 - Juvenile ; Coot - 7 - Pair continue to construct nest ; Moorhen - 4 ; Lapwing - 2 - Possible pair with one being very territorial ; Teal - 1 - Male ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Mallard - c25 - inc. two broods of c.13 fledglings ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - North calling ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Goldfinch - 2 - Pair/singing ; Linnet - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing - new arrival ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - Pair ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Adults east ; Yellowhammer - 2 - 2 males on territory ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - All singing ; Gadwall - 6 ; Buzzard - 1
Tankersley - opp.Evri: Lapwing - 9 - incl. 3 fledglings ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male ; Swallow - 1
Upper Midhope: Swallow - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 - All singing
Wharncliffe: Cuckoo - 1 - Singing heard in direction of Brownlow Rocher ; Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing, Broom Royd
Wharncliffe Chase: Cuckoo - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 5+ - 5-10 ; Swallow - 3 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Buzzard - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - c20 ; Curlew - 1
30 April 2024
Burbage Rocks: Ring Ouzel - 1 - heard only ; Buzzard - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2+Chapeltown: Whitethroat - 3 - Singing, Transpennine Trail ; Swallow - 2 - Transpennine Trail
Chapeltown Park: Nuthatch - 1
Charlton Brook, High Green: Mandarin - 2 - Pair
Cowell Flat: Lapwing - 5 - Adult with 4 small chicks.
Cross Hill Ecclesfield: Sparrowhawk - 2 - Pair displaying.
Endcliffe Park: Blackcap - 1 - singing next to lower lake
Graves Park: Wheatear - 1 - On small ploughed field near top pond. ;
Longshaw: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Singing in moorland above the entrance to the NT south car park.
Midhope: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting high west then turned east again
Silverwood Lagoon: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Reed Warbler - 5 - now 5 singing around lagoon ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing