Sightings Archive

Wyming Brook: Goldcrest - 1 - singing male ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Wood Warbler - 1 - singing male performing well @ SK268867 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - singing male

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

Carr Vale: Kittiwake - 2 - 2 1st winters NW at Carr Vale at 09.20, reported by BirdNewsDerbyshire

Crookstone moor: Curlew - 4 - Two territories ; Cuckoo - 2 - Heard

Endcliffe Park: Stock Dove - 1 - Flying out of likely nest hole ; Treecreeper - 1

Onesmoor: Stock Dove - 8 - 8 feeding in fields off Onesmoor Bottom

Orgreave Lakes: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing by river bridge ; Pied Wagtail - 1+ - WHITE WAGTAIL; male NW shore of large lake, probably at least one other bird too

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - 28 ; Mute Swan - c70 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2cy back with herd ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Swallow - 2 ; Swift - 7 ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc a singing male

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Whitethroat - 1 - singing male

Poolsbrook Marsh: Reed Warbler - 11 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - north ; 324 - 1 - Roe Deer in fields.

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Rotherham Lock: Sand Martin - 06-Aug - investigating holes in stonework of lock/canal wall again

Rowlee Bridge: Snipe - 1 - Chipping ; Lapwing - 4 - Two pairs ; Stonechat - 1 - Male ; Whinchat - 1 - Singing male ; Redstart - 1 - Singing male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing male

Silver Wood: Yellow Wagtail - 2 - probably a pair, over fields alongside approach track to Pingle Lane tip

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 7 - ; Whitethroat - 5 ; Garden Warbler - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Long Tailed Tit - 6 -adult + 5 young; Little Owl - 1 ; Buzzard - 1.

Alport Moor: Golden Plover - 2 - Area very dry ; Curlew - 4

Barlow Common: Little Owl - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 3 ; Swallow - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2

Baslow Edge: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard from observers garden

Beighton Marsh NR: Reed Bunting - 1 - 1 singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - 3 singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - 2 singing

Bingham Park: Grey Wagtail - 2+ - lower pond ; Nuthatch - 2 - Regularly visiting nest site with food

Botanical Gardens: Swift - c25 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - m

Canklow Woods: Garden Warbler - 1 - 1 singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Endcliffe Park: Grey Heron - 1 - lower pond ; Mandarin - 1 - lower pond, Male ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - lower pond ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 - male on island - upper lake

Hangingwater garden: Goldfinch - 4 - pair feeding 2 young at feeder ; Blue Tit - 2+ - pair constantly in and out of roadside nest box with food and faecal sacs

Middleton Moor: 320 - 3 - pair and second drake ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 45 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - no sign of any breeding behaviour, water levels lower than usual.

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Ringed Plover - 3 ; Dunlin - 6 ; Sanderling - 1 ; Arctic Tern - 1 - arr.0750, stayed c.5 min. ; Black Tern - 2 - one arr.0747, stayed c. 5 min. second? bird arr. 0850, still feeding 0925. ; Black Tern - 2 - second photo. ; Yellow Wagtail - 6 ; Black Tern - 1 - at 17:00 ; Sanderling - 1 - at 17:00

Orgreave Lane: Swift - 50+

Outlane: Fieldfare - 1 - Foraging in field, Coggers Lane between Outlane and Gatehouse Farm

Owler Tor: Cuckoo - 1

Rawmarsh Hill: House Martin - 2 - over traditional nesting site

Redmires Middle Res: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Female quartering south shore

Sheffield Centre: Whitethroat - 1 - singing in Decathlon car park at 06:40

Shirebrook Valley: Whitethroat - 3 - 3 singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Totley Rifle range: Cuckoo - 1

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - Regularly visiting nest with food, on one occasion bird had to wait while rat swam past! ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - 2 adults feeding 1 fledged juvenile

Wire Mill Dam: Swallow - 3 - drinking while in flight

Woodhouse Tip: Whitethroat - 4 - 4 singing