Sightings Archive

Rivelin Filters: Coot - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2m and f ; Mallard - 4+ - at least one fresh chick ; Mandarin - 1 - male

Rockingham Wood: Robin - 1+ - sing ; Blackcap - 2 - sing ; Great Tit - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - sing ; Goldfinch - 1 - sing

Sothall: House Sparrow - 4+ - adult feeding three fledged juvs

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - e ; Mallard - 4 - f3y ; Tufted Duck - 10 - 6m4f ; 319 - 1 - soar se ; Kestrel - 1 - m hunt ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 5 - crow ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - 02-Jan ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Swift - 6 ; Skylark - 4 - sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - 3sing ; Blackbird - 14 - 6sing ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Whitethroat - 10 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Great Tit - 9 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; House Sparrow - 10 - on site col.food ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Linnet - 7 ; Bullfinch - 2 - singles ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 5sing ; Yellowhammer - 1

Thurcroft; Woodhouse Green: Swift - 10+ - over ; Starling - Oct-15 - aerial feeding on emerging insects

Woodseats: Swift - 1

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 3 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 4 - singing males, including one showing well close to track ; Wood Warbler - 4 - another photo ; Wood Warbler - 4 - another photo ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male by bottom of brook ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - chasing by bottom of brook ; Siskin - 3 - included a streaky fledged juv ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing

Centenary Riverside: Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 4 - 3 singing ; Goldfinch - 3 - 2 singing ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Robin - 2 - 1 singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - 1 pair, courtship dispay ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing

Crookes Valley Park: Mallard - 14+ - included female with 9 fresh chicks ; Blackcap - 2 - singing from woodland ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing SE corner ; Nuthatch - 1 - hopping along on ground looking for food along edge of wall

Endcliffe Park: Mallard - 6+ - Female with 5 chicks ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - Male singing

Forge Dam: Rook - 1 - Juvenile fallen out of nest, sadly no adult attending ; Mandarin - 2 - Males ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - flying downstream ; Mallard - 9+ - Males & females, female with 2 chicks, another with 5 chicks ; Nuthatch - 1

Greasbrough: Swift - 30+ - over greasbrough rec

High street,Ecclesfield: House Martin - 6 - Back at last!

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 3 - 1 ad 2 young still 5am.

Manor Fields Park: Shelduck - 1 - low West over at 05:50. ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Whitethroat - 6 - 5 singing male ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 11 - 8 m 3 f ; Mallard - 6 ; Moorhen - 1

Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 8 - 7 singing around lagoon, 1 singing in isolated seedbed by overflow pool below NW corner. Best year ever for this species here. ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing

Sothall: Woodpigeon - 1+ - at least one juv fledged from nest in leylandii ; Dunnock - 2+ - nest with young heard

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 - =4pr ; Grey Heron - 2 - past ; Mute Swan - 27 - inc.2nests ; Mallard - 8 - f6y ; Tufted Duck - 7 - 4m3f ; 319 - 3 - 1w2n soar ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2