Sightings Archive

Longshaw: Tree Pipit - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 14+ ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2+ - mixed flock of juv Tits - at least 2 Coal, 2 Great and 1 Blue ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Swallow - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 3+

Nether Green: Swift - 11

R Derwent, Grindleford: Goosander - 4 - redheads ; House Martin - 3

R Derwent, Harper Lees: 319 - 1 ; Raven - 2 - Mobbing buzzard

R Don, Weedon St to Brightside Weir: Carrion Crow - 4 - 1 ad + 3 juv. Magpies mobbed juvs when ad departed ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Wren - 4 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - juv ; Sand Martin - 4 - over river ; Starling - 10 ; Magpie - 6 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - juv begging constantly from old railway bridge nr Weedon St

Redmires conduit: Mallard - 2+ - 2 females with one and two small chicks respectively on pond at end of conduit.

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 16 - arrived from the N ; Canada Goose - 6 ; Grey Heron - 4 - flew SW at 07:10 hrs ; Mallard - 8 ; Moorhen - 2 - separate juvs on Middle Res & Hammond's Field ; Lapwing - 25 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40 - c. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad ; Black-headed Gull - 30 - c. ; Pied Wagtail - 6 - on shoreline of Bottom Res ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Wheatear - 3 - on Roper Hill ; Meadow Pipit - 60 - c. post-breeding flock ; Tree Pipit - 3 - singles S ; Swallow - 30 - c. flew SW ; Willow Warbler - 32 - around res perimeter ; Whitethroat - 2 - juvs ; Crossbill - 5 - flew W ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - in Fairthorn Clough ; Common Buzzard - 2 - circling above Top Res ; Kestrel - 3 - inc fresh juv ; Chiffchaff - 2 - by Top Res ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - singles ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling by Middle Res ; Curlew - 1 - juv still present

Rocher Bog: Great Tit - 1 ; Willow Warbler - c2 ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c3 ; Swallow - c6 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - flew low over tree tops ; 324 - 1 - Butterflies: Meadow Browns, Purple Hairstreak, Gatekeeper, Green-veined White, ; 324 - 1 - Dragonflies: at least ten Black Darters, copulating, chasing and basking; 1 Emperor, 1 Common Darter.

Rocher Wood: Robin - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - female ; Stock Dove - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 2+ - pair now feeding second brood ; Little Egret - 1 - WSW at 06.20 ; House Martin - c.25 ; Common Buzzard - 4 - family party soaring over The Close and farmland to west

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - c20 - Assumed local breeding success ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Walkley: Swift - 16 - Circling high at dusk, 2 entered local cavity at 21.10 and 21.12.

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 1 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SW ; Herring Gull - 2 - SW ; Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 0737hrs ; Kestrel - 1 - male preening on security light

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1pr - adult m & f sat on adjacent chimneys on and off, from 0705hrs ; Cormorant - 5 - max on pylon

Blacka Moor: Crossbill - 1 - Lone adult female in top of tree ; Whitethroat - 1 - immature plumage ; Goldcrest - c5 - Family party in conifer; amongst them one adult feeding young ; Carrion Crow - 1

Burncross, Chapeltown: Swift - c20 - Flying over Burncross Road over nest site ; Hobby - 1 - Circled over at 13.15 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Ecclesfield: Swallow - 2 - Calling, going east.First one's seen locally since early May.

Fox Holes Plantation: Willow Tit - 1 - heard calling along path parallel to Redmires road after leaving Wyming brook

Greystones: Swift - 4 - over observer's garden

Handsworth: Little Egret - 1 - One low towards Orgreave/ catcliffe at 20.15

Kimberworth: 319 - 1 - high calling W of Barkers Park @12:00.

Kimberworth Park: Swift - c20 - between Roughwood Road and Shearman Avenue ; Black-headed Gull - c30 - @ Roughwood Rec with 20+ corvid

Longstone Edge: Red Kite - 1 - At 11.30

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 3 ; Osprey - 1 ; Osprey - 1 - Another photo ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - Adults/near adults ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 145 ; Common Gull - 1