Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Pochard - 2 - males ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pair ; Grey Heron - 2 - on new rails

Crowhole: Mandarin - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; 319 - 01-Feb ; Linnet - 1 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1

Endcliffe Park: Mallard - 7+ - Upper pond, female with 5 ducklings ; Mandarin - 2 - Male & female on lower then later on upper pond ; Coot - 1+ - on nest at lower pond

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Male. ; Mallard - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Over high. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - In sluice. ; 319 - 3 - Displaying over paddock. ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2

Forge Dam: 320 - 1 - Female

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 4 - 2m and 2f at feeders ; Brambling - 4 - another photo ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair at feeders ; Siskin - 3 - at feeders ; House Sparrow - 3 - gathering feathers ; Woodpigeon - 2+ - pair and fledged juv

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 6+ ; Willow Warbler - 5+ - at least 5 territories ; Willow Warbler - 5+

Hangingwater allotment: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 - near nesting box ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - m alarming

Lodge moor garden: Brambling - 3 - Stlll visiting feeders with 4 siskins ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male visiting feeder daily

Lowedges: Barn Owl - 1 - Hunting south along A61 road verge opposite Dronfield Toby Carvery

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present this morning ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 - at 14:45 ; Black-necked Grebe -1 - still present ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Wheatear - 7 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Redshank - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 3 - headed N ; Lapwing - 3 - agitated flight over plains just N of main lake caused by dog off lead ; Goosander - 7 - 4 on main lake joined by 3 arrived from N ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present mid-morning ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - another photo

Padley: Willow Warbler - 1

R Don, Ball Street: Common Sandpiper - 1 - One on river seen from Ball St Bridge

R Don, Effingham St: Sand Martin - 15 - including several birds scratching in vain at new concrete pointing between brickwork where previously nested; bird in photo attempting to squeeze into a tiny hole in the concrete ; Sand Martin - 15 - and now visible the hole it was trying to squeeze into after it gave up

R Rother, Treeton: 320 - 1 - male by river upstream from bridge onto Orgreave

Rough Wood: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male ; Kestrel - 2 - Chasing and calling loudly ; Blackcap - 1 - Male

Silverwood Lagoon: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing from Hollings Lane sidings

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - singles ; Grey Heron - 1 - past nw ; Mute Swan - 45 - inc.12- 2cy ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2cy orange ring l/leg YGZ [the Parkgate bird] ; Tufted Duck - 29 ; Pheasant - 5 - m call. ; Sand Martin - 350+ ; Swallow - 1 ; Song Thrush - 3 - sing ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 7 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - sing ; Fieldfare - 30 - circa past n ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3sing ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Whooper Swan - 1 ; Scaup - 1

Wadsley Common garden: Siskin - 3 - one bearing silver ring on left leg.

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Swallow - 2

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 26+ - Singing ; Great Tit - 15+ - 2 nestboxes with single egg, 1 bird incubating in nest box ; Blue Tit - 20+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing

Agden Side: Ring Ouzel - 2 - 2f hillside behind T-jcn early pm. May have been moved on by Mistle Thrush