Sightings Archive

Stanage Edge: Stonechat - 3 - pair feeding fledged young by track to Dennis Knoll ; Skylark - 5 - family party moving along Edge

Stanedge Pole: Curlew - 1 - alarming by path to Edge - presumably young present ; Snipe - 1 - arrived from N and dropped into juncus by path to Edge

Thrybergh CP: Common Tern - 4

Thrybergh Res: Hobby - 1 - S over dam wall ; Common Tern - 4

Thrybergh Tip: Hobby - 1 - hunting dragonflies ; Gadwall - 1+ - fem with 5 ducklings ; Kestrel - 1 - noisy juvenile ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Curlew - 1 - Flew over calling

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 2 - m & f on chimneys; ages unknown ; Raven - 5 - family party on rooftops ; Common Buzzard - 1 - flew towards Bank Wood & settled on pylon ; Cormorant - 2 - on pylon

Barbrook Valley: Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 3 - Singing ; Whinchat - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Mobbed by Curlew ; Curlew - 1 ; Swallow - 2

Bents Green: Mistle Thrush - 12+ - Feeding on lower, recently mown, area of Common, adjacent to Cottage Lane ; Swallow - 1

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 10

Centenary Riverside: Song Thrush - 3 - 2 singing ; Whitethroat - 5 - 4 singing ; Blackcap - 5 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Blue Tit - 05-Jun - Family group. ; Wren - 11 - 4 singing, 1 alarm call, 5 -6 juveniles calling foraging by river. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding by river. ; 321 - 1 - River ; Goldfinch - 09-Oct - Feeding on seed heads on verges. ; Stock Dove - 2 - Pair feeding on path.

Greystones garden: Coal Tit - 1 - Juvenile ; Swift - 4 - Over

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 2 - Adults ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - Pair on big lake with 2 chicks

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Siskin - 1 - S, calling

Rawmarsh; Roundwood Brook: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting

Rawmarsh; Ryecroft: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 35+ - Flying West ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Golden Plover - 4+ - 1 just off path, and several others calling.

Redmires Res: Crossbill - 1 - flew W ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - ads still feeding young ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling by Bottom Res ; Raven - 5 - wandering group - possibly a family party judging by behaviour ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Little Grebe - 5 - 2 ads + 3 young on Top Res

Westwood CP: Yellowhammer - 1 - in tall grass near flying field.

Whirlow Hall Farm: Whitethroat - 1 - fem

Baslow: Crossbill - 5 - Flew into spruce tree, called loudly for 2-3 minutes before departing high to S-E

Canklow: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing along rother

Cowell Flat: Grasshopper Warbler - 1+

Hillsborough Golf Club: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by a Crow ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - Calling ; Willow Warbler - 1+ - Singing

Northern General Hospital: Ring-necked Parakeet - 5+ - At least 5 seem to have taken up residence here. Usually seen in flight early morning and evenings from entrance to Chesterman wing

Orgreave Lakes: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Adult ; Little Egret - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 3

Parkgate; Great Eastern Retail Park: Raven - 5 - family party; circled over @ 0825hrs before settling on roof of The Range for a few minutes; left together towards Liberty site.

Rotherham; Barbot Hall Industrial Estate: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1245hrs; left NW

Thrybergh: Red Kite - 1 - drifting towards pit top.

Aughton: Starling - 50+ - Flying East towards Aston School playing fields where they feed on a daily basis ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female flushing & chasing small birds in a front garden,

Baslow: Bullfinch - 6 - Pair plus 3 recently fledged young visiting feeders, plus additional male ; Red Kite - 1 - N-W over garden at 9.30

Hail Mary Hill Wood: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female carrying food

Hail Mary/Falconer Woods: Greenfinch - 2 - M&F ; Goldfinch - 3 - at the entrance to the woods ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing their heads off, on the approach to these woods

Redmires Middle Res: Dipper - 1 - imm on overflow by car park/ layby

Treeton Dyke: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Juvenile in flight ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 3 - In flight ; 319 - 2 - on two different Pylons close to each other

Treeton Wood: Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing on Aughton side of the woods.

Wadsley Common garden: Bullfinch - 4 - Pair and 2 juveniles on feeders. ; Blackcap - 1 - Juvenile on feeders. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Juvenile on feeders. ; Swallow - 2+ - In and out of outbuilding with nest-young heard.

Walkley: Hobby - 1 - Flying over garden amongst swifts