Sightings Archive

RVCP: Great Crested Grebe - 12 ; Grey Heron - 6 - Breeding confirmed ; Common Tern - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Whitethroat - 6 - Fledged juvs ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Swift - 30+ ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; House Martin - 10+ ; Swallow - 10+

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 5 - ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Swallow - 18 ; Swift - 4 ; House Martin - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 - inc 6 juvs ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - inc 1 juv ; Buzzard - 1 ; Little Owl - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Tawny Owl - 1+ - 1+ juveniles calling SE of Wharncliffe Side by A6102

Whitwell Moor: 327 - 1 - presumed Lesser in song-flight over spring

Bar Brook Valley 3km walk between Barbrook Cottage road and Barbrook Plantation: Whinchat - 21+ - Six territories. 11 adults and at least 10 recently fledged juvs. ; Whinchat - 21+ - Another picture ; Curlew - 2 - Calling ; Stonechat - 1 - Adult male ; Tree Pipit - 3 - 3 singing ; Raven - 1

Blacka Moor: Ring Ouzel - 1 - flying over Cowsick bog ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Whitethroat - 6 ; Curlew - 2 ; Stonechat - 6 ; Whinchat - 2 - male alarm calling plus fledgling western end of Blacka Hill ; Snipe - 2 - Cowsick Bog, 1 chipping

Bolehill Flash: Sedge Warbler - 1 - Nest building ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Goldfinch - 12 - 6+ recently fledged

Bradfield Moors: Golden Plover - 1 - moved us away from its breeding area. Photo by Syndy Hornbuckle

Centenary Riverside: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing

Ecclesall Road, Berkeley Centre: Swift - 10-Dec - circling and screaming high over

Greave*s Piece: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Handsworth: Curlew - 1 - calling over garden,19.10

Hangingwater garden: Bullfinch - 2 - m hovering for quite a few seconds to take palm tree fruit

R Don, Effingham St: CASPIAN GULL - 1 - 1s/2cy on weir at 18:15, before flying to Tesco roof.

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2s/3cy on weir with LBBG ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c60 - several adults ; Herring Gull - c8 - one adult.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - nesting pr ; Cormorant - 3 - ad ; Mute Swan - 7 - inc.2y ; Tufted Duck - 21 - 17m4f-1with 3y ; 319 - 2 - soar se ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - singles 1with prey ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - inc 1jv ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past se ; Swift - 50 - #NAME? ; Wren - 16 - sing ; Blackcap - 9 - sing ; Whitethroat - 6 - inc.3sing +2jv ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - 2sing 2jv sowing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - 3sing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - 3sing+1ad 2jv ; Nuthatch - 1 - call from t/ops ; Carrion Crow - 8 - +2prs with jvs ; House Sparrow - 6 - #NAME? ; Bullfinch - 2 - call ; Yellowhammer - 3 - sing

Aldwarke: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Linnet - 3 - 1pr + singing male

Bradfield Dale: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling from top of post

Canklow Woods: Long-tailed Tit - 16

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 4 - inc singing male; probably bred ; Common Tern - 3 - adults, straight through W/SW @ 0611hrs ; Moorhen - 4 - all adults ; Mallard - 6+ - 5f/juv; 1f + 2juvs ; Reed Warbler - 3+ - inc 2 singing males ; Dunnock - breeding confirmed ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing male ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Jay - 1 ; Whitethroat - 7+ - inc 2 singing males + 1 carrying food; breeding confirmed ; Kestrel - 1 - f, hunting ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Linnet - 2 - over

Damflask Res: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 (pair)

Emlin Moor, Agden: Woodcock - 1 - roding over moorland fringe .

Fulwood garden: Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Siskin - 1 - fledged juv at feeders

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Moorhen - 1 - Adult with 1+ juvs ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 1+ ; House Martin - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - juvs ; Wren - 6 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing