Sightings Archive

Cressbrook Dale: House Martin - c11

Firsby Res: Coot - 5 - 4 adults 1 well grown chick. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 7 - Pair + Female with 4 half grown ducklings. ; Common Tern - 1 - Brief flight over water. ; Kestrel - 4 - Pair with chicks. ; House Martin - 20+ ; Swift - 10+ - Low over houses with HMs. ; Swallow - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2+ - Calling from waters edge. ; Yellowhammer - 5+ ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4+ ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Heard reeling not seen. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Nest with eggs. ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Skylark - 3 - Singing.

Intake: Red Kite - 1 - Flew over observer's house then drifted SE at 11:30.

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 - male hunting

Kimberworth Park: Starling - c20 - adults and juvs feeding, on verge

Litton: Curlew - 1

Millhouses: Swift - 12+ - Feeding low over Millhouses Park and Hutcliffe Wood in the rain. Not local birds presumably. Max daily count of just two so far this month over the houses.

Orgreave Lakes: Jay - 1

Pebley Pond: Little Egret - 1 - reports of 2 in week ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 - The one that has been around most of the spring and summer ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 - 2 adults + 1 young. ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1

Ramsley Moor: Redstart - 1 - male ; Cuckoo - 1

Ramsley Res: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling from woods behind reservoir

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over, harassed by 3 Jackdaws, 1055-1105hrs

Silverwood Lagoon: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - 1adult feeding juvenile ; House Martin - 5 ; Swift - 12 ; Mute Swan - 11 - 2 adults with 9 well grown cygnets ; Whitethroat - 5

Spout House Hill: Curlew - 3 - male, female and at least 1 of this year's young feeding on recently mown hay field ; Lapwing - c8 - feeding in recently mown hay field

Treeton triangle pond: Reed Warbler - 9 ; Gadwall - 10 - 2 females. One with 8 recently hatched ducklings

White Lee Moor: HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - female over plantation 12:10-13:00. ; HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - another record shot ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - singing Swanheight

Barlow Common: Skylark - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Swallow - 4 ; Linnet - 2+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Swift - 1

Centenary Riverside: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - Alarm calling carrying food. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Landed in treetops. ; Kingfisher - 1 - In trees on latest bottom pond.

Ecclesall: Swift - 2 - visiting traditional nest site on Falkland Road

Grindleford: Treecreeper - 1 - St Helen’s church

Ladybower Res, West arm: Wood Warbler - 2 ; Redstart - 3 ; Dipper - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Longshaw: Curlew - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Shoveler - 1 - Eclipse drake on west shore ; Common Tern - 1

Pebley Pond: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - missing primaries, but likely moulting. ; Gadwall - 1 - female and 4 chicks

R Derwent, Calver Bridge to Calver Mill: Mandarin - 5 (4, 1)

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Sparrowhawk - 1 - in 'switchback' display flight overhead @ 0710hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 3 - inc singing male

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 18 - 3 prs with 12 young ; Greylag Goose - 20 - ads & young ; Mallard - 6 - inc pair with 2 young ; Little Grebe - 3 - 2 ads with newly hatched chick - Top Res. Only second successful breeding pair ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male on pond in Hammond’s Field ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 - Pair with single chick on Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 4 - inc pair with single well-grown chick on Middle Res ; Curlew - 9 - in fields on Soughley Lane ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - flew SW ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Golden Plover - 1 - calling along conduit ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 8 - pair with newly fledged young by Bottom Res + family party of five on Middle Res ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 prs on conduit ; Swift - 4 - flew S ; Swallow - 6

Silverwood Lagoon: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 5+ - pair feeding 2 well-grown young, third adult feeding 1 well-grown young, another pair with 3 tiny chicks - Access from Hollings Lane, SK478941, please park sensibly and keep to the paths to avoid disturbance ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Siskin - 1 - over ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing in Hollings Lane Meadows ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 6 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 6+ - 3 singing