Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - 2sing 2jv call ; Long-tailed Tit - 16+ - 2 parties 8+8+ ; Bullfinch - 2 - jv call ; Carrion Crow - 8 - 2pr each with 2jv ; Goldfinch - 30+ - ad +jvs

Ash Cabin Flat: Woodcock - 3 - Roding ; Grey Partridge - 1 - Singing from fields

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Ecclesfield: House Martin - 1+ - feeding young at nest on Nether Lane .

Green Moor: Hobby - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 - Again this evening in its favourite tree

Handsworth: Curlew - 1 - calling over garden, 22.05

Lodge Moor: Lesser Redpoll - 2 - Regular visits to feeders over last week

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 2 - Present all day ; Ringed Plover - 5 - Early morning ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 ; Scaup - 1 - Drake still ; Tufted Duck - 65 ; Pochard - 15 ; Great Crested Grebe - 34 ; Coot - 88 ; Greenshank - 1 - This evening

R Don, Effingham St: Moorhen - 2+ - pair and 3 well grown juvs

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - in riverside Buddleas ; Moorhen - 3+ - 2 broods, of 4 and 1 juvs.

Redmires Middle Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling briefly at dusk ; Curlew - 16 - roosted ; Black-headed Gull - 8 - only Gulls that roosted.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 - 1nesting pair +2-1 ; Cormorant - 3 - 2j ; Mallard - 24 - 3ad f with 9y5y 7new chicks ; Tufted Duck - 55 - 6f49m ; Coot - 66 - inc.1pr with a single chick ; Lapwing - 8 - inc 3down 5past w ; Black-headed Gull - 31 - 1jv ; Common Tern - 1 - in briefly ; Swift - 2 - only ; Blackcap - 8 - sing ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 2sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 11 - 5sing 6jv( 3-1-2) ; Great Tit - 13 - many jvs ; Magpie - 21 - inc.4fams ; Carrion Crow - 9 - inc 2fam 4 -4 ; Goldfinch - 34+ - inc flock 20+

Barbrook Pools: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Cream crown hunting reservoir bed. Drifted west towards White Edge around 17.50

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling 0800

Endcliffe Park: Swift - 5+ - circling low near Rustlings Road nest site

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2

Hangingwater garden: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - over S

Middleton Moor: Black-headed Gull - 56 - Including 6 recently fledged juvs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 148 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Adult ; Curlew - 21

Morley Pond: Mute Swan - 7 - 2 adults with 5 juvs ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 3+ - Adult with juvs ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Hunting in wooded area ; Swallow - 5+ ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing from area of dense willow ; Whitethroat - 2 - Singing ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 - Early morning ; Ringed Plover - 6 ; Dunlin - 1

Redmires conduit: QUAIL - 1 - heard singing two phrases at 20.05 but nothing else by 21.00 ; Golden Plover - 21 - circling overhead ; Linnet - 2+ - including presumed pair, male singing

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - red ringed PTF on the Bernard Road incinerator building

Bowden Wood estate: Blackbird - 9 - 2 m feeding fledged juvs .

Canklow Woods: Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - In air together near McDonald's roundabout ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling 2200

Catcliffe Flash: 320 - 1 - fem type

Crosspool: Swift - 20+

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 - seen 7.15am and hunting again around 7pm ; Hobby - 1 - Adult through at 19:30 ; Hobby - 1 - record shot

Hesley Wood: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1710hrs

Leash Fen: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling Ramsley Res side

Malin Bridge: Swallow - 6 - over W, post breeding dispersal.

Middleton Moor: Whitethroat - 2+ - 2 adults feeding 2 fledged juvs

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 3 - Pair displaying plus at least one further churning bird

Olympic Legacy Park: Mistle Thrush - 22+ - 11 feeding on newly lawned areas left east at 10:10, then 22 flew over west at 10:25

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Black-headed Gull - c40 - 3 juvs

Rawmarsh; Rectory Fields allotments: Nuthatch - 1 - calling @ 0740hrs; very unusual here. Presumably result of post-breeding dispersal

Redmires: Curlew - 10 - south ; Merlin - 1 - female hunting over bracken beds

Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 30-40 - feeding around riverside treetops

Sheffield Airport: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c200 - on old overgrown runway ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - adult