Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing below SW corner of lagoon, 1 singing in Round Wood (Cenotaph Wood)

Sothall: Water Rail - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden

Stanage area: Curlew - 2 - heard

Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - drifted N @ 1011hrs

Stubley Hollow: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; 319 - 1

Whim Plantation: Woodcock - 2+ - At least 2 roding out of Whim Plantation

Woodseats: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over

Worrall: Wren - 1 - nest building.

Wortley Park: Skylark - 2 singing ; Redwing - c50 ; Fieldfare - c20 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 319 - 2 calling ; Siskin - 5+

Agden Res: Oystercatcher - 3

Barnside Moor: Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Red Grouse - 2+ ; Skylark - 2 - displaying males

Brinsworth: Red Kite - 1 - first in 20 yrs observer has lived here

Brooks Bank Farm conservation fields: Curlew - c20 - In field ; Lapwing - at least 4 - possibly two pairs ; Pheasant - 2 - 1 male 1 female

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - 1 singing presumed migrant as none seen over winter

Damflask Res: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - on dam wall with Canadas

Earnshaw Ridge: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Red Grouse - at least 5

Ecclesfield park: Chiffchaff - 1 - Brief song near play area. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Singing in bushes at bottom of Ladycroft park entrance.

Greystones: Blackbird - 12 - spiralled upwards at dusk and flew off high to the E - presumably departing migrants

Hudson*s Rough, NW of f/p: Goldcrest - 1 - singing, adjacent to back gardens @ Jewitt Road ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing

Hudson*s Rough, SE of f/p: Goldcrest - 2 - males? behaviour and song ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+

Longshaw: Red Kite - 1 - Over woodland behind Longshaw Lodge then drifted towards Totley Moor.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Lapwing - c10 ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Kestrel - 1 - hovering ; Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 20 - feeding in field ; Curlew - 1 - brief display

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 singing

Nether Edge - Meadow Bank Avenue: Magpie - 22 - On grass area in middle

Overstones Farm: Lapwing - 12+ ; Curlew - 4 - Individuals feeding, few calls

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c253

Pike Lowe, Midhope: 324 - 1 - Mountain Hare ; Red Grouse - at least 20 ; Kestrel - 1

R Sheaf, Heeley - Broadfield Road: Mandarin - 5m, 2f

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling around 0510hrs

Rivelin: Chiffchaff - 1

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 2 - 1 in weir at Hollins Bridge Mill. A second in Rivelin as it flows past duck lake.

RVCP, Main Lake: Whooper Swan - 3 - flew West

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - over grassland above NE corner of lagoon at 06.35 ; 320 - 2 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - presumed pair ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 70 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Siskin - 1

Sothall: Whooper Swan - 1+ - heard calling overhead 0710hr ; Moorhen - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden

Sugden Clough: Red Grouse - at least 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Curlew - 1 - flew in calling then landed on grassy patch ; Wren - 1

Thickwoods: Coal Tit - 2 - singing males ; Siskin - c10 ; Robin - 2 - singing males ; Goldcrest - c4 - one singing

Walkley garden: Stock Dove - 2 - In top of birch tree ; Wren - 2 - pair foraging in shrubs

Wingfield: Rook - 4+ - 3 nests @ Wingfield Road

Agden Res: Whooper Swan - 30 - c30 by dam wall this morning ; Oystercatcher - 8 - on dam wall

Beauchief Golf Course: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mallard - 11 ; Canada Goose - 2 - Top pond ; Redwing - 2 - Ladies Spring Wood above 1st Green

Canklow: Raven - 1 - 1 cronking south at 1015

Dore: Whooper Swan - 50+ - north over viewed from Townhead Road at 08:51

Eckington: Goosander - 6 - Pair, 2 females, 2 imm males ; Kingfisher - 1 - River Rother

Fox House: Stonechat - 1 - male

Kimberworth Park: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - circling low over Grey Hill with 4+ BH