Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Blackcap - 4 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 23 ; Carrion Crow - 40 - inc. 38 in fields ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Linnet - 134 - inc. c130 in stubble field ; Goldfinch - 120+ - inc flocks of 40+40+30+ ; Bullfinch - 7 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Golden Plover - 1 - past n

Treeton Dyke: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing this morning at where footpath adjacent to railway meets dyke at north end

Walkley Bank: Swift - 1 - exiting nest cavity on Bell Hagg Road

Walkley garden: Tawny Owl - 1 - screeching ar 0400

Baslow Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard below Edge

Botanical Gardens: Swift - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 2+ - ad pr + 3 juvs ; Gadwall - 24+ ; Shoveler - 5 - now officially autumn ; Pochard - 13 ; Tufted Duck - 3+ ; Moorhen - 10+ ; Coot - c80 ; Little Grebe - 2+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Hutcliffe Wood: Swift - 1

Malin Bridge: Kestrel - 2 - over S one after the other.

Manor Fields Park: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - central area 16:20. ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Whitethroat - 4 - still at least 4 birds around. ; Blackcap - 2 ; House Martin - 4 ; Moorhen - 8 - 2 ad 6 well grown juv 06:00

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 123 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Juv/ 1st W ; 321 - 1 ; Greenshank - 2

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 5 ; Merlin - 1 - male in ploughed fields

R Don, Effingham St: Common Gull - 1 - ad on roof ; Black-headed Gull - c120

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 01-Feb - at least one adult on roof, probably 2

Ramsley Moor: 319 - 1

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Cormorant - 2 - NE @ 14.05 ; 319 - 7 - circling @ 14.30 ; Hobby - 2 - circling high over Stubbin Old Pit Site @ 15.03 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - S ; Swift - 1 - SW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - high to SW @ 15.24 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - SW

Rivelin Valley: Yellow Wagtail - 2 - 2 adults passed briefly through observers garden ; Little Owl - 2 - On Coppice Farm walls ; Stock Dove - 1 - On Coppice Farm

Stoke Flat: Snipe - 3 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1

Thrybergh CP: Black Tern - 4 - south at c09:00

Totley Moss: Kestrel - 3 ; 324 - 5 - Red Deer

Botanical Gardens: Swift - 2

Brecks: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling (transitional juvenile-adult type call) just north of Dalton Listerdale Junior and Infant School

Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - Perched on stepping stones and then flew upstream at 7:15

Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1

Green Moor: Swallow - 30+ ; Pheasant - 50+ - Game release

Langsett Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 500 - this evening ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - adult ; Black-headed Gull - c250

Limb Valley: Wren - 1 ; Nuthatch - 3 - 3 separate birds heard

Old Ravenfield: Linnet - c60 - in stubble at village end of Pingle Lane ; Yellowhammer - c12 - with Linnets

Orgreave Lakes: Whinchat - 1 - Around the causeway from 0920. ; Wheatear - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swift - 9 - 5+4 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Lapwing - 30+ - On island.

R Don, Bessemer Way: Grey Heron - 4 - on disused Phoenix Bridge

R Don, Brightside: Black-headed Gull - c120 - feeding overhead on flying ant hatch

Rawmarsh:Stubbin Old Pit Site: Grey Partridge - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - S ; Green Woodpecker - 2 ; Swift - 4 - S ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Long-tailed Tit - 25 ; Jay - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Bullfinch - 5

Ringinglow: Collared Dove - 17+ - Smeltings Farm