Sightings Archive

Wentworth Lakes: Kestrel - 1 - female calling,from tree

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Singing males ; Tree Pipit - 3 - Singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 37 - Singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - Applying mud nest box, another singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 - 1 seen, 2 singing about 200 yards apart ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - m ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - f ; Blackcap - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 2

Agden Side Road: Cuckoo - 1

Bingham Park: Willow Warbler - 1

Bolsterstone: Tree Sparrow - 2

Bramley: Jay - 1 - Over houses high up calling observers first record since moving into village in 2005. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Over @ dusk heading towards Silverwood lagoon.

Canklow: Pheasant - 4 - One cock calling, 3 hens. On AMG works field. 18.45

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying at 1430

Catcliffe Flash: Sand Martin - 32 - At dusk. ; Mandarin - 1 - Male at S end of flash early evening ; Pochard - 2 - M and f ; Cormorant - 2 - Roosting on dead branches in flash ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Gadwall - 8

Cinder Hills: Blackcap - 3+ - 3 sing, 1pr seen in bramble ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 5 - male ; Kestrel - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Lapwing - 02-Mar - adj field to S ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Swallow - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Ecclesall: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing in Button Hill garden

Greystones garden: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male

Holmebrook Valley Park: Willow Warbler - 2+ - Calling around lake ; Chiffchaff - 7+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Swallow - 2 - Flew through at 17:35 ; House Martin - 5+ - From Holme Park Avenue road above park

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 1 - male

Ladies* Spring Wood: 319 - 4

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - male in reedbed 06:35 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flew over S at 06:26 ; Swallow - 2 - flew thru 1N 1W. ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Robin - 8 - singing across site ; Blackbird - 12 - 8 singing males ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Collared Dove - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults over between 05:30-06:45

Morehall Lane: Cuckoo - 1

Norbriggs Flash: Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing before flying across the path ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - collecting lichen for an almost fully built nest

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - Pair this morning ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing briefly between bridges ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 - On river either at one point singing .This is a first for me. ; Mute Swan - 2 - pair, both wearing red darvic rings: one was 776Y

Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 1

RVCP: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - In song ; Blackcap - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Willow Warbler - 3

Scholes Village: 319 - 2 - pair soaring together ; Pheasant - 1+ ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Skylark - 2 - sing ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Dunnock - 3+ - 2 sing ; Robin - 3+ ; Blackbird - 1+ - inc 1 sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Magpie - 2+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; House Sparrow - 6+ ; Tree Sparrow - 1 - by apple tree, ; Chaffinch - 1+