Sightings Archive

Woodhouse Washlands: Great Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Magpie - 4

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 3 - max, on pylon by river

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1pr - both adults; male onto water tower (SK451949), female onto chimney (SK449948) @ 0800hrs, each with brief spells away before returning. ; Raven - 1 - calling from NW edge of complex

Canyards: Kestrel - 1 - hover hunting ; Robin - 1 ; Goldfinch - c5 ; 319 - 1 - brief stooping display

Ecclesfield Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling.

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2

Meersbrook Park: 324 - 3 - Speckled Wood butterflies

Middle Common, Scholes: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over cover crop, between f/p and boundary with Upper Common ; 319 - 1 - on telegraph pole

Oughtibridge: Raven - 1 - Calling while flying SE over Beeley Wood

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 6+ - 1 singing ; Greenfinch - 3 - 1 N; 2 NW ; Whitethroat - 1 - 1cy ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - S ; Siskin - 4 - singles, all heading S ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - 'alba' wagtail, S ; Goldfinch - 7 - flock, N ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - over from adjacent golf course

Parkgate; Barber*s Avenue: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female circling over @ 0810hrs; probably same as seen over golf course @ 0830hrs before leaving W

Pebley Pond: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 3 - 2 Adult 1 Juvenile ; Canada Goose - C120 ; Greylag Goose - 8

Rawmarsh Hill: Goldcrest - 1 - in conifers, Vesey Street

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 4 - 2 ads & young ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Kestrel - 2 - juvs ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - juv circled over Fairthorn Clough at 09:38 hrs before drifting SW ; Snipe - 1 - flew W ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 26 ; Herring Gull - 3 - ads ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 4

Rocher Wood: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - catching flies from tree top ; Kestrel - 3 - One was hunting in a sheep pasture from a fallen branch. ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - catching flies from tree top

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling from woodland ; Jay - 1+ - calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - called briefly ; Goldcrest - 1 - in conifers ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - N

RVCP: 320 - 40 ; Shoveler - 14

Silverwood Lagoon: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing on and off in the sunshine this morning ; Black-headed Gull - c.80 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Siskin - 1 - south

Tankersley: Greenshank - 4 ; Snipe - 3 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Singles SW ; 320 - 1 ; Lapwing - 6 ; House Martin - 4 ; Swallow - 7 ; Greenshank - 4

Thrybergh: COMMON CRANE - 6 - Overhead at extreme height going in NE direction, flight calls audible, (68° NE direction from point of observation would likely be going towards Humber Estuary?) ; 319 - 3 - On thermals overhead calling.

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 32 ; Canada Goose - 250+ ; Greylag Goose - 19 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Coot - 6 ; Lapwing - 50+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 s ; Black-headed Gull - c200 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Swallow - 100+ - feeding then moving southwards ; House Martin - 4 ; Sand Martin - 100+s ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 s ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Linnet - 20 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Greenfinch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 60+ ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - c 20 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Raven - 2 ; 319 - 6+ ; Kestrel - 1

Wharncliffe Chase: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1