Sightings Archive

Redmires Res: Cuckoo - 1 ; Whinchat - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1

Rud Hill: Wheatear - 1 - male Greenland Wheatear ; Whimbrel - 1 - flew SW with Curlews

Stanage Edge: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling by Hook's Car pull-in

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 27 - #NAME? ; Tufted Duck - 12 - only 2f seen ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 6 - m-call ; Herring Gull - 5 - 1ad4-2cy ; Pied Wagtail - 5 - pr+3j ; Wren - 16 - sing ; Robin - 11 - 9sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 13 - 9sing ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Whitethroat - 6 - 4sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - in reed bed ; Willow Warbler - 9 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Scaup - 1 - m

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Redstart - 3 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 6 - singing ; Stonechat - 4+ - Pair and 2 fledged juveniles to south of Wharncliffe Lodge

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 4+ - 3 territories, female nest building ; Wood Warbler - 1 - singing ; Redstart - 1 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 4 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 53 - singing ; Blue Tit - 10+ - 4 pairs feeding chicks in boxes ; Great Tit - 12+ - 6 pairs feeding chicks on boxes and a nest in tree cavity ; Coal Tit - 2+ - Pair feeding chicks in nest hole in sessile oak ; Linnet - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing

Wharncliffe Side: Robin - 1+ - Nest in observers garden ; Great Tit - 4+ - Nest in observers garden, adults feeding chicks ; Blue Tit - 3+ - Nest in observers garden, adults feeding recently hatched chicks

Wharncliffe Wood: Willow Warbler - 112 - singing ; Wood Warbler - 2 - singing ; Crossbill - 6 - 2 adults and 2 juveniles, 2 calling from conifers ; Blackcap - 13 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 9 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing

Barbrook Filters: Whinchat - 1 - Singing male ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing by cottage @ 1050 feet asl

Barbrook Pools: Snipe - 1 - "Chipping "

Blacka Moor (DevilsElbowgate): Cuckoo - 1 - calling, over NE ; Wood Warbler - 1 - h ; Treecreeper - 1 - with food ; Curlew - 1 - h ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing males ; Blackcap - 2 - singingmales ; Chiffchaff - 2 - h ; Willow Warbler - 8 ; Coal Tit - 1

Brinsworth: 321 - 1 - Over river 13.10 ; Swift - 08-Oct - Over river feeding. ; 319 - 1 - Over 14.25

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 3 - 3 males in a group ; Stonechat - 2 - m+f ; Whinchat - 2 - at least one male ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling from plantation ; Reed Bunting - 2 - 2 males ; Willow Warbler - 1 - with nest material ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - with nest material

Catcliffe: Lapwing - 2 - Feeding on grass verge AMRC 15.40 ; Stock Dove - 2 - Feeding on grass verge AMRC 15.55

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 - Pair on main Res.

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 3 - 3 males

Fulwood Booth: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - down briefly and then flew E.

Greno Wood: Cuckoo - 1 - Male singing ; Crossbill - 9

Middleton Moor: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Curlew - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 1! - Male ; Goosander - 2 - Redheads

Orgreave Lakes: Black-tailed Godwit - 18 - in from north, circled then high SW ; Black-tailed Godwit - 18 - Came in from north at 06:50 then high ; Turnstone - 1 - On small lake mid-morning

Padley Gorge: Spotted Flycatcher - 1

Ravenfield Church: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from woodland early morning.

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2+ - pair active around nest

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 20 - inc resident pair ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 2 - m ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Kestrel - 1 - past ne ; Pheasant - 6 - m call ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1ad1-2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 - 3ad4-2cy past w ; Swift - 30 ; Sand Martin - 9 ; Swallow - 4 ; House Martin - 1