Sightings Archive

Thursday 11th May 2017

• Centenary Riverside: Mute Swan - 3 - over ; Gadwall - 2 - pair on river ; Greenfinch - 1 - calling ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 1 pair observed, 2 singing. ; 321 - 1 - on small pond ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2 - pair on pond ; Song Thrush - 1
• Cowell Flat: Redshank - 1 - calling and moving W onto moors at 22:15.
• Dore village: Swift - 10 - arrivals started 5 days ago
• Fox House: Curlew - 1 - displaying over adjacent field
• Froggatt Bridge: Woodcock - 1 - Roding
• Holdsworth: Little Owl - 1 - Seen in this area a few times recently.
• Holmesfield: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting male, low over road
• Leadmill Bridge: Kingfisher - 1 ; Mandarin - 5 - 2prs + 1m ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr ; Moorhen - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Dipper - 1
• Lydgate: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flew over Lydgate lane, calling
• Middleton Moor: Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Common Gull - 1 - Second summer ; Reed Bunting - 3 - Singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing
• Orgreave Lakes: Sanderling - 3 ; Skylark - 15 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Redshank - 3 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Swallow - 2+ ; House Martin - 2 ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 9 - inc 2 juv ; Pochard - 6 - males ; Gadwall - 5 - male & female ; Great Crested Grebe - 8 - inc 1 on nest on island in smaller lake ; Wheatear - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 60+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Linnet - 2 - male & female ; Ringed Plover - 4+ ; Canada Goose - 2+ - Pr with brood (15) ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2cy over N with 5 Mute Swan at 12.46. Still visible over Canklow
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - 1 showing very well ; Redstart - 02-Mar ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing males ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing male, on SE edge of Lawrence Field ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing male, SE edge of Lawrence Field ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr ; Treecreeper - 3 - 1pr + singing male ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Pied Flycatcher - 11 - 8 singing males; 3f ; Redstart - 1pr ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing male ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - one carrying food ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male
• Rivelin Dams: Canada Goose - 1
• Sheffield University: Woodpigeon - 2+2 - Nest with 2 young very precariously balanced on top of floodlight on Regents Court, opp St Georges church
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 02-Jan ; Mute Swan - 27 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 15 - 10m5f ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Moorhen - 9 - inc.pr taking food to yng ; Coot - 27 - inc.pr and 2yng ; Common Tern - 1 - in frm n ; Swift - 15 ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Swallow - 2 ; Wren - 15 - sing ; Robin - 13 - 9sing ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Whitethroat - 6 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunt 0730 flew nw
• Tinsley Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - over
• Wyming Brook: Treecreeper - 2 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing males ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing males ; Siskin - frequent - possibly family parties around ; Bullfinch - 3 - 1pr + 1