Sightings Archive

Nether Haugh; Back Lane: Corvid - c100 - feeding in recently ploughed field; mostly JD ; Black-headed Gull - c20 - in recently ploughed field, inc several 1cy

New Stubbin Colliery/tip: Yellowhammer - 5 - inc 4 singing males ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - Breeding confirmed - f with 2 fully-grown juvs ; Kestrel - 04-May - hunting simultaneously; presumed family party ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 3 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Pair seen carrying food into area where singing bird recorded in spring. 1st breeding record at this site. ; Little Egret - 4 - Early evening ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 2

Parkgate Canal Basin: Carrion Crow - 5 ; Mute Swan - 21 ; Mallard - 4

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 1+ - anxious male + others calling ; Whitethroat - 4 - all 1cy; family party ; Bullfinch - 3 - SW ; Linnet - 3 - SW ; Swift - 8 - feeding over ; Swallow - 1 - with Swifts ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - NE ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Parkgate; Forge Way: Black-headed Gull - 40 - inc 8 1cy, loafing on roof of retail unit ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - giving constant 'sweeooo' calls

Redmires Res: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 19 ; Black-headed Gull - 49 ; Curlew - 2 ; Sand Martin - 2 - NW ; Willow Warbler - 31 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling

Ringinglow: Kestrel - 1

Rother Valley CP: Willow Tit - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - On main lake with Mutes. No rings noted but may well have been present. Photo taken with phone at distance of c. 20 ft. Showed no fear of me or others

Roundwood Golf course: Stock Dove - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 1cy calling from top of birch ; Mistle Thrush - 27 - post-breeding flock

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 4 ; Mute Swan - 39 - inc,.2y ; Tufted Duck - 39 ; 319 - 2 - soar.se ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 - #NAME? ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ad w ; Common Tern - 1 - ad ; Swift - 11+ ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - 17 - moving s ; Blackcap - 3 - 1m2f/j ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2+ - call.from r/bed ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Goldfinch - 80+ - in 2 flocks ; Bullfinch - 4 - 02-Feb

Upper Haugh; Chapel Walk: Long-tailed Tit - 10 ; Coal Tit - 2 - inc singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1

Whiteley Woods: Kingfisher - 1

Attercliffe: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - flying over Virgin Media towards the old Don Valley stadium ; Peregrine - 2 - adults on the Bernard Rd incinerator building sheltering from rain

Barbrook Valley: Whinchat - 7+ - Including at least four juvs ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling 250 metres S. of old Res dam. ; Green Woodpecker - 2

Beauchief: House Martin - 2+ - Flying to single nest above Abbeydale House,

Broomhead Moor: Red Kite - 1 - quartering moor.

Catcliffe Flash: Little Egret - 1 - 19:00 ; Wigeon - 1

Clod Hall Cross Roads (Leash Fen).: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling 300m. NE from crossroads.

Coombs Dale: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Firsby Res: 319 - 1 - Juvenile calling from top of hedge. ; Kestrel - 1 - Juv Female. ; Swallow - 5+ - Low over meadow returning to farm outbuildings. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair. ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Linnet - 20+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male. ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Stock Dove - 1 - Fledgling on track

Gleadless: Canada Goose - 19 - flew low east over Gleadless Common at c07:05.

Longstone Edge: Raven - 3 ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 2

Malin Bridge: Swift - 40+ - large compact screaming parties tonight

Middleton Moor: Redshank - 3 ; Snipe - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 150

Millhouses Park: Mandarin - 5 - Female and four well grown juvs on river.