Sightings Archive

Big Moor: 319 - 1

Broomhall: Common Buzzard - 2 - Soaring and moving slowly NW

Ecclesall: Peregrine - 1 - juv over Ansell Road twice during early evening

Froggatt Edge: Wheatear - 1

Howbrook Dam: Osprey - 1 - Briefly over the Dam before a mobbing Rook chased it off at 11.55 ; Osprey - 1 - photo ; Osprey - 1 - photo ; Osprey - 1 - photo ; Osprey - 1 - Hovering over res at 09:30

Liberty Steels; Roundwood Rolling Mill: Raven - 1 - settled on water tower @ 0827hrs. Left unseen.

Middleton Moor: Pintail - 4 - fem/eclipse birds ; Shoveler - 2 ; 320 - 20 ; Golden Plover - 13 - circled over ; Greylag Goose - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 20 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adults ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; 330 - 1 - prob juv briefly, 18:20-18:25 hunted low W across main lagoon, lost then picked up again heading N towards Foolow.

Orgreave Lakes: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 13+ - inc 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Blackcap - 1 - male ; Stock Dove - 1 - over, towards Liberty steels ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - S/SW ; Mallard - 12 - 2 SW; 10 NE ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - 'alba' wagtails, SW ; 320 - 1 - NE @ 0935hrs with party of Mallard ; Goldfinch - 16 ; Meadow Pipit - c60 - all low to S/SE/SW; largest parties c30 & 22 @ 0800hrs ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1

Parkgate; Barber*s Avenue: House Martin - 3 - over estate

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling frequently around 0240hrs

Redmires Res: Mallard - 16 - Mostly on Top Res ; Wigeon - 6 - appeared on Top Res - mid-morning ; Shoveler - 5 - amongst Teal on Top Res - unusual here ; Pintail - 1 - flew south at 07:08 hrs ; 320 - 21 - on Top Res ; Tufted Duck - 12 - on Top Res ; Golden Plover - 1 - over Middle Res ; Snipe - 2 - on Top Res ; Curlew - 4 - circled Bottom Res and off south at 07:08 hrs ; Kestrel - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40 - c. by mid-morning ; Herring Gull - 6 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ads with LBBs ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - juv again on Top Res ; Black-headed Gull - 20 - c. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Stonechat - 4 - including freshly fledged juv on track to Stanage ; Whinchat - 2 - singles on track to Stanage & along Conduit ; Wheatear - 2 - singles on track to Stanage & along Conduit ; Chiffchaff - 29 - around res perimeter - record count here ; Blackcap - 2 - by Top Res ; Meadow Pipit - 140 - c. 60 post-breeding flock on track to Stanage + c. 80 flew south ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - 1 on Top Res + 2 flew south ; Tree Pipit - 3 - 1 grounded on track to Stanage + 2 singles flew SW ; Redstart - 1 - single flushed from edge of Middle Res shoreline - flew into scrub on island ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - heard calling in Fairthorn Clough - mid-morning ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - in Fairthorn Clough ; Swallow - 10 - flew S ; Starling - 200 - c. resting on wires along Soughley Lane ; Siskin - 10 - c. ; Skylark - 3 - flew SW

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - SW ; House Martin - 7+ - 6+ 'blogging'; 1 SW ; Swallow - 6 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - SW ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Mallard - 1 - E/NE ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Mute Swan - 3 - S @ 0935hrs; 2 headed towards river, third continued to canal basin

Thrybergh CP: Lapwing - 66 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Herring Gull - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - C100 ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - In front of café ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Linnet - 100+ ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Raven - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 4+ - several calling in bracken

White Edge: House Martin - 30+ - flying southward along the White Edge escarpment

Woodhouse Washlands: 319 - 1 - On pylon 11.15am

Bramley: Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Low over observers garden. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Large female attacked Collared Dove who escaped minus some tail feathers. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Male through garden 3 times. ; Swallow - 5 - Over towards Silverwood Lagoon.

Cinder Hills: Kestrel - 1 - appeared to drop prey, vole? from tree while feeding