Sightings Archive

Padley Gorge: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 319 - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - c10 - around colony, entering several holes beneath Bridge Inn

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 1 - on island

Redmires Res: Common Sandpiper - 7

Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 2

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2+ - 2nd chick hatched this afternoon

Shirebrook Valley: Jay - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 22 - in a feeding flock ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 8 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing

Silver Wood: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling on Pingle Lane Tip ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing in scrub to west of woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 13 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Mute Swan - 0 - female now in care at Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital, Selby, male has departed ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Linnet - c.12 - several pairs in gorse at either end of lagoon, males singing ; House Martin - 5 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Pheasant - c.10 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Grey Partridge - 1pr ; Jay - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Wheatear - 3 ; Curlew - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Stonechat - 1

Stubley Hollow: Swallow - 14 - Chiffchaff - 4 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Wren - 10 ' Buzzard - 1

Sugworth road ( near gas compound): Fieldfare - 1 - In field behind gas compound ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Curlew - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - in ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2pr ; 319 - 3 - soar in se ; Kestrel - 1 - m hunting ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 - cr ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - inc 1-2cy in 2 past w ; Swift - 18+ ; Sand Martin - 8+ ; Swallow - 8 - +inc.1-2-1-1n ; House Martin - 2+ ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Yellow Wagtail - 3 - singles n ; Wren - 8 - sing ; Dunnock - 15 - 13sing ; Robin - 8 - sing ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Blackbird - 13 - 5sing ; Blackcap - 7 - sing ; Whitethroat - 4 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - 1sing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Blue Tit - 12 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - 02-Jan ; Chaffinch - 6 - 4sing ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 1sing ; Yellowhammer - 1

Wadsley Common garden: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing. First garden record in 22 years of recording.

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1

Bamford Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Showing well feeding round probable nest site ; Wheatear - 2 - Feeding round previous nest site ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Being moved on by resident male wheatear

Barlow Common: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Linnet - c. 120 - flock of around 120 in, and then over, a field ; Blackcap - 3 - pair and another male ; Stock Dove - 04-Jun ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Skylark - 1

Bole Edge Plantation: Curlew - 1 - Over road & calling

Bradfield: Wood Warbler - 1 - A singing male at Mott and Bailey