Sightings Archive

Sheffield City Airport: Lapwing - 4 - Adults . Two alarming probably small chicks ; Peregrine - 1 - Adult male hunting including full stoop.

Smithy Wood: 319 - 1 - Circling above .

Stanage Edge: Red Kite - 1 - flying along edge from Stanage Pole SE to SW ; Curlew - 1+ - callng ; Skylark - 1+ ; Golden Plover - 1+ - calling ; Wren - 2 ; 319 - 2 - hunting ; Kestrel - 1 - hovering over Boundary Stones area ; Ring Ouzel - 3 - brief chase

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - circling ; Skylark - 1 - singing

Wadsley: Swift - 2 - Pair circling houses screaming

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 8 - 7 male, 1 female

Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 1

Barbrook Pools: Red Kite - 1 - over c.10.45, rapidly mobbed by every Lapwing in the neighbourhood

Canklow Woods: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Castle Dyke playing fields: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - in company of corvids on fenced-off playing fields

Cinder Bridge Field: Red-legged Partridge - 7 ; Lapwing - 4 - inc 1 on nest

Dennis Knoll: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling close to Dennis Knoll

Greasbrough: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - near Bassingthorpe Farm

Hillsborough: Common Buzzard - 2 - high over

Kimberworth Park: Swift - 3+ - low over roof tops of Remount Way/Remount Road and 3 low again at Roughwood Rd/Rhodes Avenue @10:40 SK 401946. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - in Hudson's Rough

Norfolk Heritage Park: Sparrowhawk - 1+ ; Swift - 1 - flying high over park

Norton Lees: Blue Tit - 2 - Feeding young in allotment nest box ; Chiffchaff - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Carrying nest material ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing

Orgreave Lakes: Egyptian Goose - 1 - On small lake early morning then flew south. ; Dunlin - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - On west side of big lake. ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 3

Redmires Middle Res: Herring Gull - 2 - playing with tennis ball, ad and 2s.

Redmires Top Res: Linnet - 1 - Male and poss female in trees south side of Res

Roe Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - Common Chiffchaff with aberrant song. ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Shirecliffe: Peregrine - 1 - seen from Herries Rd over Shirecliffe, missing outer primary on one of the wings.

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2+ - resident pair and 8 cygnets ; Oystercatcher - 1 - SW at 07.10

Stanage End: Red Kite - 1 - Circling over

Stanage North: Wheatear - 1 - Single male ; Ring Ouzel - 5 ; Skylark - 3 ; Curlew - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - beneath High Neb ; 324 - 1

Waterthorpe: Pied Wagtail - 3 - Adult and two chicks from nearby nest under neighbours solar panels. ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - One Chick ; Starling - 20 - 8 Juveniles ; House Sparrow - 2 - Regularly taking mealworms away.

Waverley Estate: Lapwing - 6 - All adults 3 sitting on nests.

Wentworth Estate: Red-legged Partridge - 28 ; Pheasant - 59 - counted in an hour in SK49D - ridiculous numbers

Wentworth Lakes: Coot - 11 - inc one on nest ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Treecreeper - 1 - at Morley Bridge

Wigtwizzle: Song Thrush - 4 - all singing around site. ; Woodcock - 2 - roding at dusk.

Barlow Common: 319 - 2 ; House Martin - 10+ ; Swift - 01-Feb ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 - Active nest in tree cavity ; Song Thrush - 1 - Fledged young ; Cuckoo - 1 - Singing Male ; Robin - 1 - Carrying food to nest ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male

Brightholmlee: Barn Owl - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2 - pair in brambles ; Curlew - 1

Broomhead Res: Crossbill - 1 - calling in plantation to the south of res ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Canyards: Stonechat - 5+ - 2 pairs and another male ; Cuckoo - 1

Carr Vale NR: 332 - 1 - outside our recording area, and showing no inclination to venture north of the 'mound' this afternoon. Bird has a badly broken/dislocated leg but is feeding well.

Cinder Hills: Kestrel - 1 - male on tel. pole

Greystones: Swift - 2 - Over observer's garden

Langsett Res: Tufted Duck - 4 - 2 males and a separate pair ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; 319 - 1

Middleton Moor: Tawny Owl - 1 - a downy juv ; Redstart - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - a pair ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - singing from top of wall ; Wheatear - 1 ; Shelduck - 1

Midhope Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 3 - 2 sitting