Sightings Archive

Centenary Riverside: Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Intermittent song. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Wren - 2 - Singing

Cressbrook Dale: Raven - 5 - presumed family party ; Garden Warbler - 2 - 2 territories ; Redstart - 1 - alarming male ; Sparrowhawk - 2+ - m & f bathing in dew pond (not together), 2 chasing down valley.

Edensor: 324 - 1 - Brimstone butterfly

Hay Dale: Tree Pipit - 1 - pair, male singing at top end. ; Whitethroat - 1 - alarming with food.

Ickles: Kestrel - 1 - Flew over roundabout E to W , 11.30

Longstone Moor: Little Owl - 1 - at roadside

Malin Bridge: Cormorant - 1 - circling over low.

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c250 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1

Millhouses: Black-headed Gull - 60+ - Hawking for insects and drifting slowly high to NW ; Swift - 11 - Highest count this yaer

Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 1 - North ; Pochard - 27

Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Red Kite - 1 - drifted W @ 08.45 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; 319 - 3 - Circling @ 14.05 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - N ; Stock Dove - 1 - on playing field with WP's ; Crossbill - 2 - fem/imm's SW, calling @ 07.14

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 3 - now 3 reeling birds - 2 at Hollings Lane end of pit top, 1 just beyond northern end of lagoon

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 8 - inc res pr with only 2 young ; Mallard - 10 - f +9y ; Tufted Duck - 17 - 13m4f ; 319 - 1 - soar se ; Kestrel - 1 - call ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - past s 1500 ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad e ; Swift - 20 - #NAME? ; Swallow - 2 ; Wren - 18 - 17sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - sing ; Blackcap - 7 - sing ; Whitethroat - 7 - 5sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - 1sing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Magpie - 21 - +incat least 4 fams. ; Yellowhammer - 6 - sing

Wardlow Hay Cop: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Redstart - 3+ - 2 pairs, alarming ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing

Agden Side: Redstart - 2+ - At least one pair and confirmed breeding ; Redstart - 2+ - photo ; Redstart - 2+ - Photo

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - ad male plucking prey on Bernard Rd incinerator building.

Bar Brook Valley: Whinchat - 5+ ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 - lone male ; Gadwall - 10+ - 10+ ads inc fem with brood (7) ; Wigeon - 1 - male - totally unexpected ; Pochard - 9 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Little Grebe - 4+ - + brood (3) ; Moorhen - 3+ ; Coot - 17+ ; Swift - 6+ ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Blackcap - 1

Edge Mount: Tawny Owl - 1 - fledged juv sat on road .

Firsby Res: Mallard - 15+ - 1 Male + 2 Females with Ducklings. ; 319 - 1 - Circling low over sheep Paddock. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Adult in undergrowth. ; Swallow - 6+ - Low over water. ; Swift - 50+ - Large flock over far end of large Res. ; House Martin - 2 - Over briefly. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing from reed bed. ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male. ; Long-tailed Tit - 20

Lodge Moor garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male caught juvenile Goldfinch

Peat Pits: QUAIL - 02-Mar - calling at dusk ; Curlew - 11 - party of 9 + 2 mobbing buzzard .

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 4 - heard singing only

Barbrook Plantation: Stonechat - 4 - juvs perched atop the bracken calling ; 319 - 1 ; Redstart - 1

Broomhill: Goldcrest - 1 - singing near Hallamshire Towers site

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling

Cowell Flat: Curlew - 3 - perched on different walls ; Snipe - 2 - On posts in marshy field near crossroads ; Red Grouse - 4 - 1 adult female and 3 well grown chicks