Sightings Archive

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Wren - 8 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Canada Goose - 1 ; 321 - 1 - River ; Willow Warbler - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 1 - female at feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Siskin - 3 - at feeders ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Brambling - 2 - m and f at feeders

Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming and calling, south of Charles Ashmore car park in trees above cricket pavilion.

Ladybower Res, North arm: Swallow - 5+ ; Meadow Pipit - 13+ ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Moscar: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lapwing - 4+ ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present ; Whooper Swan - 1 ; Whinchat - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - below cricket ground ; Common Tern - 2 ; Swift - 2

Overstones Farm: Curlew - 2 - Pair in usual nest area ; Wheatear - 1 ; Lapwing - 5+ - Stationary around nestsites

R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - 10 - imms ; Iceland Gull - 1 - 2w with c40 big Gulls flushed off Tesco roof by helicopter 13:40

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Carrion Crow - 40 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Rotherham Centre: Sand Martin - 12 - Approx, in the air and on the telegraph wires between Rotherham train station and the Bridge Inn at 09:00.

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2+ - first chick reported hatching at St George's this afternoon

Silver Wood: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing in strip of woodland south of Hollings Lane

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling. Now moved to bottom of sheltered 'valley' ; Gadwall - 2prs ; Whitethroat - 12+ - singing

Tinsley Marshalling Yard: Whitethroat - 2 - 2 singing

Wharncliffe Chase: Wheatear - 3 - 1 pair and an aggressive male ; Redstart - 1 - Visible on fence post and low tree branch ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Wheatear - 6+ ; Green Woodpecker - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Singing near pales wood ; Skylark - 5 - Singing ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 4

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair collecting nest material in wood pasture area ; Pheasant - 4 - 3 males, 1 female, abandoned nest found in heather ; Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing ; Greylag Goose - 2 - In flight over heath ; Willow Warbler - 15+ - Singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1+ - Singing

Wharncliffe Wood: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male singing between plank gate and disused railway tunnel ; Crossbill - 10+ - Calling in flight

Woodhouse Tip: Common Buzzard - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 5 ; House Martin - 1 ; Skylark - 3 - Singing males ; Meadow Pipit - 8 - Including 3 singing males ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing male ; Blackcap - 4 - Singing males ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing males ; Willow Warbler - 5 - Singing males ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling

Catcliffe: Yellowhammer - 1 - Partial song next to Specsavers 12.00 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting next to AMCR.. 12.15

Ecclesfield Park: Redstart - 1 - Feeding alongside path from Scholes View towards playground just past concrete river bridge.

Endcliffe Park: Grey Heron - 1 - on lower pond ; Song Thrush - 1

Firsby Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - reeling 1 at side of large pond 1 near entrance gate ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swallow - c10 - feeding over water and adjacent fields ; Gadwall - 2 ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Magpie - 4 ; Jackdaw - c12 ; Goldcrest - 2 - males singing against each other ; Willow Tit - 1 - calling ; Willow Warbler - c10 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; 319 - 2 - one carrying nest material