Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - Single bird on south side island. ; Swift - 6 ; Swallow - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5+ ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - To and from small island. ; Skylark - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair on small lake ; Oystercatcher - 3 - On island in small lake ; Wigeon - 1 - Feeding on island in small lake ; Dunlin - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 2 - Treeton exit ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Overhead soaring at Hemingway Road exit. ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Redshank - 1

Padley: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - pair ; Pied Flycatcher - 6+ - including a pair taking food to nestbox ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - in Birches ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Stonechat - 1 - on heath

R Rother, Catcliffe: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling from reedbed margin.

R Rother, Treeton: Lapwing - 1 - Adult female showing missing foot. Still guarding single chick. ; Lapwing - 1 - Single Lapwing chick

Ramsley Moor: Garden Warbler - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 1 - adult entering overhanging scrub in NW corner of Top Res - presumed breeding second attempt ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2

Redmires Top Res: Goosander - 6 - 4m, 2f. flew towards Bottom Res at 09:10

Rivelin Dams: Canada Goose - 6 - inc 2 pairs with 3 & 1 young ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - 1 displaying on Top Res, plus another heard on Bottom Res ; Siskin - 2 - displaying

Rivelin Valley: Tawny Owl - 3 - Adult bringing food to two downy juveniles.

Sheffield University: 319 - 1 - High over St Georges, with the Peregrines making a fuss.

Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing on railway line sond

Silverwood Lagoon: Lapwing - 1 - flew west. First record on pit top this year ; Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 1 - north at 07.55 ; Kestrel - 1 ; House Martin - 4 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Jackdaw - 2 - pair feeding young n Round Wood

Stanage Edge, below: Grey Partridge - 2 - Presumed pair flew low across bracken-covered slope towards High Neb

Stanage Plantation: Treecreeper - 1

Stanley Hill: Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing ; Linnet - 4 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing

Totley Moss: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - over calling, blogging about and possibly landed at Strawberry Lee Pastures, Blacka Moor

Totley Rise: Greenfinch - 5 - One carrying nesting material

Unthank: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Treecreeper - 01-Feb ; Chiffchaff - 1

Wadsley Common garden: 319 - 5 - Circling over garden this morning.

Walkley garden: Swift - 4 - 4 flying through low, screaming ; 324 - 1 - unidentified bat over pond, first seen this year

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 15 - Singing males ; Pied Flycatcher - 16 - singing males ; Tree Pipit - 6 - 5 singing, another silent in low tree branches ; Chiffchaff - 3 - including a bird singing in trees to the north of the heath ; Willow Warbler - 60+ - 45 singing, several seen carrying nesting material ; Robin - 85 - singing ; Wren - 76 - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Nuthatch - 6+ - at least 2 nests in boxes ; Dunnock - 8 - singing ; Goldcrest - 4 - singing ; Linnet - 4 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 - flew north east ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+ ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - alarming ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Woodcock - 8 - Roding

Wingfield: 319 - 2 - together circling then drifting E @10:00 ; Swift - c10 - in tight formation, over Wingfield Road and Roughwood Rec

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Robin - 4 - Fledged juvenile near adult ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Goldfinch - 4

Blacka Hill: Tree Pipit - 7 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 30 ; Curlew - 1 ; Linnet - 11 - 4 Pairs. & Singing males ; Wheatear - 3 - 1 pair & 1 male ; Whitethroat - 2 - 2 Singing males

Blacka Moor: Skylark - 2 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 - Pair

Blacka Plantation: Wood Warbler - 2 - 2 Singing males. Nr Devils Elbow