Sightings Archive

Ughill Moors: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lapwing - 26 - Post breeding flocks starting to build.

Ulley Res: Mute Swan - 7 - Pair with 5 young were 8 initially. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Dam wall. ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - Pair with 3 chicks near bridge. ; 319 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 1

Bassingthorpe Farm: Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1+ ; Little Owl - 1 - calling ; Magpie - 3+ ; House Sparrow - 1+ ; Greenfinch - 1 - sing ; Linnet - 3+

Bassingthorpe Spring: Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 1+

Birley Edge: Swift - 20+

Canklow: Pied Wagtail - 1 - Sat on top of Cherry Picker, AMG works 19.10 ; Kestrel - 1 - Flew from AMG works car park North towards Sheffield Road.

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling at 0700 ; 319 - 1 - Over woods 19.10 ; Swift - c 50 - c 50 feeding above woods ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling 2100

Clough: Skylark - 2 - sing ; Wren - 1+ - sing ; Dunnock - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - juvs ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Crookes Valley Park: Coot - 2+ - Pair with two well-grown juvs ; Goldcrest - 2 - Singing against each other 50 metres apart

Crookesmoor: Goldcrest - 1 - Singing from sycamore on Crookesmoor Rd at bottom of Conduit Rd

Damflask Res: Barn Owl - 1 - over New Road

Darnall: Ringed Plover - 2 - breeding pair ringed plover on waste ground next to car park

Fenton Road: Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Swift - 10+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, W side of road

Hudson*s Rough: Moorhen - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - sing ; Wren - 1+ - sing ; Robin - 1+ - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - mainly juvs ; Great Tit - 6+ - at least 2 parties adults feeding juvs

Padley Gorge: Treecreeper - 2+ - family group of 4+ with adults feeding young. ; Nuthatch - 1+ - adult feeding 3+ recently fledged young. ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1+ - adult feeding fledged young ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - recently fledged juv.

Redmires: Curlew - 2 - 1st field to right on conduit path

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 2 ; Dunlin - 1

Sheffield Airport: Lapwing - 2 - pair with 2 flying juvs.

Silverwood Lagoon: Cormorant - 1 - 'down' briefly ; Common Tern - 1 - north at 09.05 ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Gadwall - 1+ - female with young brood ; Reed Warbler - 10+ - 6 singing, others calling in roadbeds ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Whitethroat - 6 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 1pr ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swift - 4 ; House Martin - c.20

Stubley Hollow: House Sparrow - 27 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; 319 - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 33 - inc 5y 3-2 ; Tufted Duck - 11 - 1f ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1ad 1-2cy ; Swift - 60 - + ; House Martin - 4 ; Wren - 14 - sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - 2sing reed bed wind damaged ; Whitethroat - 3 - 2sing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Great Tit - 50 - 50/60 inc 8fams