Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Swift - 16 ; Skylark - 8 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Treeton Dyke: LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 - Viewed from concrete bridge ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - north ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4 - singing

Treeton Tip: Grey Heron - 2 - low to E (to Ulley CP?) @ 0910hrs

Ulley Brook; SE of Ulley CP: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Mallard - 1pr+ - + brood of 8 ; Swallow - 1

Ulley CP: Blackcap - 5 - singing, inc 2 Morthen arm ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 - inc pair with nest, Morthen arm ; Coot - 8 ; Canada Goose - 4 - 2 + 2 in from NE ; Song Thrush - 6 - inc 2 singing ; Mallard - c35 - + brood of 3 ; Moorhen - 10+ - #NAME? ; Pied Wagtail - 1pr - in spillway ; Mute Swan - 1pr - #NAME? ; Chiffchaff - 9 - inc 8 singing ; Willow Warbler - 7 - 6 singing, 1 collecting nest material ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 11 - inc 7 singing ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - flew into SW field ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 3 - singing ; Gadwall - 1 - drake ; Sand Martin - 1 - around road bridge

Wadsley Common garden: Siskin - 5 - Back in garden after a couple of weeks absence.

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Common Buzzard - 4 - soaring overhead

Beeley Wood: Kingfisher - 1 - Seen twice this am just below footbridge. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - At footbridge ; 319 - 1 - Flying low through trees near Abbey steel

Big Moor: Jack Snipe - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 - seen from Ramsley Moor

Blacka Moor: Whimbrel - 2 - Heading NE ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard only.

Blacka Plantation: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male

Bole Hill Quarry: Willow Warbler - 2

Broomhead Res: Blackcap - 1 - singing from ash tree ; Chiffchaff - 3 - all singing ; Willow Warbler - 06-Aug - all singing ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 3 ; Coal Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Blackbird - 04-May ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 5 ; Curlew - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - feeding on mud at side of res path

Brownhills Lane: Redshank - 1 - bizarrely landed in road in front of car, then perched up on wall

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Chapeltown: Red Kite - 1 - Circling over Burncross housing estates 14.30 before drifting northwards

Graves Park: Brambling - 1 - Heard only.

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1

Greno Wood: Tree Pipit - 1 - songflighting in clearing ; Common Buzzard - 7 - circling together ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair displaying ; Swift - 2 ; Willow Warbler - c10 - singing

Greystones: Willow Warbler - 1 - In observer's garden

Hathersage Moor: Skylark - 2

Hurlfield: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male flew over observers house calling then relocated to nearby Gleadless Common briefly 13:55-14:05.

Leash Fen: Curlew - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Hobby - 1 - low over Slatepit Lane and then Leash Fen

Longshaw: Willow Warbler - 5 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Mandarin - 1m ; Pied Flycatcher - 1m ; Mandarin - 1 m ; Mallard - 8m, 1f

Loxley Valley: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing in scrub near Loxley Bank meadow.

Manor Fields Park: Black Redstart - 1 - fem/imm around play area/ 'Stonehirst' 06:40-07:00 .

Mayfield Valley: 319 - 2

Middle Common,: Skylark - 1 - singing

Millstone Edge: Willow Warbler - 2

Orgreave Lakes: LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 - Female present until 06:50 when it flew towards Treeton Dyke. ; Whimbrel - 1 - North 07:15 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 9 ; Wheatear - 4