Sightings Archive

Saturday 2nd April 2022

• Curbar Edge: Stonechat - 1 - female ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - chipping from rushy field
• Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 1+ ; Canada Goose - 3 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing, N side ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing, S side, W end
• Edge Mount: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male feeding in rough pasture.
• Harthill Res: Mute Swan - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Redwing - 1 ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 10 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 7 ; Jay - 2 - in trees at far end of Top Res ; Chaffinch - 3 - singing
• Kiveton Community Woodland: Little Egret - 1 - sat in fields ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Herring Gull - 5 - flew N ; Yellowhammer - 1
• Markham: Kingfisher - 1 - calling on river ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Song Thrush - 3 ; Herring Gull - 50 - c. circling after leaving nearby landfill ; Reed Bunting - 3 - males
• Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2 pairs ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair, nest W end ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Mallard - 2+ ; Tufted Duck - 16 ; 319 - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 6+ ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing
• Mount Darnall: Carrion Crow - 32
• Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 12 ; Sand Martin - 7 ; Swallow - 2 ; Goosander - 5 - RH ; Goldeneye - 5 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - Calling male
• Poolsbrook Marsh: Gadwall - 4 ; Coot - 3 - inc one carrying nest material ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 8 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Willow Tit - 1 - singing at back of signal box pool ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing briefly east of signal box pond
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 2 - m & f calling excitedly for several minutes around 0600hrs
• Scholes Ground: Lapwing - 1 - calls
• Sheffield Centre: Peregrine - 2 - Pair over cathedral at 12:44
• Shepherd*s Plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing
• Silver Wood: Chiffchaff - 14+ - at least 14 singing in area ; Blackcap - 2 - 1 singing near r/way line pond, 1 singing woodland south of Hollings Lane
• Silverwood Lagoon: Chiffchaff - 9 - about 9 singing males around pit top ; Blackcap - 1 - singing in Round Wood (Cenotaph Wood) ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing from brambles in Hollings Lane meadows ; Snipe - 3 ; Little Grebe - 06-Aug ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Linnet - 15+ - pairs and singing males in most areas of gorse and brambles around pit top ; Jay - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
• Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - busy preening and singing softly (photo taken from footpath) ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - another photo (taken from footpath)
• Thrybergh CP: Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 40 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Goldeneye - 2 - 2F ; 320 - 10 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Redshank - 1 - North 10:21 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 - pair ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 6 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Brambling - 1 ; Chaffinch - 6