Sightings Archive

Sunday 2nd April 2023

• R Don, Aldwarke: Canada Goose - 3 - flew upriver ; Blackcap - 1 - singing
• R Don, Eastwood: Cormorant - 5 - one flew downriver; 4 on gantry by river @ SK439941 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; 320 - 6prs ; Moorhen - 1 ; Siskin - 4 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - both colour-ringed adults: 337 (yellow) & ??? (yellow) ; Canada Goose - 2 - flew over toward Eastwood Lock from E & returned E
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Long-tailed Tit - 1pr - in garden
• Redmires Top Res: Kestrel - 1 - m ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at 13:30 in Fairthorn Plantation
• Rivelin Valley: Sparrowhawk - 2 - Circling over Valleyside Garden Centre
• Rocher Head: Pied Wagtail - 2 - pair ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Curlew - 1 ; 319 - 2 - soaring high ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - pair ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Meadow Pipit - 1
• Rocher Wood: Green Woodpecker - 2 - yaffling ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1
• Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 23 ; Whooper Swan - 1 - ad - still present ; Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Pochard - 1 ; Wigeon - 20 - c. ; Shoveler - 8 - flew SE ; Tufted Duck - 35 - c. ; Goldeneye - 13 ; Goosander - 2 ; Coot - 40 - c. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling N end of Park ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 - drumming ; Grey Heron - 9 ; Little Egret - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 5 ; Herring Gull - 29 ; Sand Martin - 70 - c. ; Swallow - 3 ; House Martin - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 18 - singing around perimeter of Park ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 7 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Egyptian Goose - 5
• RVCP: Egyptian Goose - 5 ; Sand Martin - 200+ ; Herring Gull - 40+
• Sheffield Centre: Peregrine - 2 - pair flying over cathedral
• Silver Wood: Blackcap - 1 - singing in strip of woodland south of Hollings Lane
• Stanage Edge: Snipe - 1 - Calling ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - male foraging despite the crowds ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - another photo ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - f
• Stanage Edge, below: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male singing
• Thrybergh CP: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - Front ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Sand Martin - C400 ; Swallow - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 10+ ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 1M ; Meadow Pipit - 12 ; Pied Wagtail - 20+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2+ - 2 WHITE WAGTAIL in field behind Doncaster point ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Fieldfare - 200+ ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Chaffinch - 10 ; Greenfinch - 6 ; Linnet - 4 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Skylark - 8 ; Song Thrush - 1+ ; Reed Bunting - 6+ ; Yellowhammer - 1+
• Ughill Moors: Oystercatcher - 2 - in fields ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair on roadside pond ; 321 - 2 ; 320 - 1 - drake ; Greylag Goose - 6 ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Swan sp - 2 - flying W, distant but looked more like Mutes.