Sightings Archive

Agden Rocher: Jay - 1 ; Redstart - 1 - male attending nest in tree. ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - Adults feeding 1 fledged juv. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Curlew - 2 - alarm calling. ; Blue Tit - 1 - only 1 fledged juv heard calling from tree canopy. ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Barbrook Plantation: Coal Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 - taking food to nest ; Willow Warbler - 1 - carrying food ; Treecreeper - 1 - carrying food ; Dunnock - 1 - recently fledged juv

Blacka Moor: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Skylark - 10+ ; Starling - c 100 - mobile post-breeding flock, moved on at one stage by Curlew ; Curlew - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 - f

Blacka Plantation and lower wood: Blackcap - 15 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 21 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 7 - singing ; Wood Warbler - 1 - singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard briefly from Totley direction ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Broomhill: Red Kite - 1 - over Manchester Road drifted high west, initially accompanied by a buzzard that went high east

Chatsworth Park: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing between Chatsworth House and Emperor Lake

Cowsick: Tree Pipit - 5 - singing ; Stonechat - 2 - 1 ad + 1 juv ; Swift - 1 - over N

Ewden Height: Curlew - 20+ - Several territories with alarming birds all around. At least 2 juvs seen. ; Skylark - 7 ; Swallow - 3 ; Goldfinch - 10+ - incl. several juvs ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Cuckoo - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 6 - incl. pair gathering nest material. ; Lapwing - 10 - incl. at least 4 juvs. ; Golden Plover - 1 - Call/display flight ; Snipe - 2 - drumming ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ - Several food carrying + nest building ; Starling - 15 ; Ring Ouzel - 3 - Male + 2 suspected juvs ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Redstart - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - both fledglings ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1+ - 1-2 singing ; Swift - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing males ; Little Egret - 1

Raynor Plantation: Woodcock - 2+ - Roding

Redmires Bottom Res: Oystercatcher - 1 - In field above res ; Linnet - 2

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 2 - Adult with juvenile ; Redshank - 2 - Parent and young chick

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; 324 - 2 - Two water voles above middle res

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 3+ - Resident pair very agitated - third adult flew over heading towards Devonshire Green. Photo of resident female ; Peregrine - 3+ - 3 adults and 2 juvs on point of fledging ; Peregrine - 3+ - two juvs active around nest box. ; Swift - 5 - feeding around St George's, apparently picking up flies attracted to prey items on ledges ; Woodpigeon - 1 - nest-building in tree opposite Peregrine platform on St George's church

Silverwood Lagoon: Curlew - 1 - south at 09.40

Thrybergh CP: Common Scoter - 3 - 2M+1F present all morning

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 6+ - roding

Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 2 - a pair taking food to nest

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Low over river Barrett Estate moving towards J33. 16.40

Broomhead Park Plantation.: Woodcock - 2+ - roding overhead

Canklow Woods: Barn Owl - 1

Canyards Plantation.: Tawny Owl - 1 - Hunting from perches on plantation brash ; Woodcock - 2+ - Single bird(s) roding and,at other times, 2 flying together

Catcliffe: Red Kite - 1 - flew low over oil seed field nr pet crematorium towards Catcliffe, landed in trees by R Rother 12:45

Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: 319 - 1 - Very low over observers garden, mobbed by pair of Carrion Crows.

Dog Kennel Pond: Sand Martin - 1 - active near W end wall.

Ewden Height: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Curlew - 4 ; Linnet - 2 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Flying and calling down the valley ; Lapwing - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Swallow - 4 ; Skylark - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2

moorland fringe: Nightjar - 2 - male churring, and presumed female.

Morley Pond: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing from reeds on N edge ; Grey Heron - 2 - over from from NW continuing onto Dog Kennel.

Pebley Pond: Osprey - 1 - Hunting for about 60 minutes whilst being mobbed mainly by Oystercatchers and Corvids. Finally leaving due south.