Sightings Archive

Sunday 2nd June 2019

• New Stubbin colliery/tip site: Whitethroat - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Common Buzzard - 1 - hunting, mobbed by corvids & B-h Guls
• Oaking Clough: Grey Wagtail - 1 - Male displaying along overflow ; House Martin - 4 - Flew south-west ; Swift - 1 - Flew south-west ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - Flew south-west
• Onesmoor bottom: Pied Wagtail - 6 - adults feeding 4 fledged juvs in road .
• Orgreave: Sanderling - 1 ; Dunlin - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 4 - Tundrae type ; Red Kite - 1 - 1 drifting south mobbed by 2 Ravens ; Raven - 2 - Mobbing Red Kite as it drifted south
• Orgreave Lakes: Sanderling - 1 ; Dunlin - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 4 - tundra type ; Red Kite - 1 - mobbed by two Ravens then south ; Raven - 2
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 13 - 10m &3 f between top of Padley gorge & path to quarry ; Redstart - 3 - 2 m & 1 f ; Spotted Flycatcher - 8 - 4 pairs ; Treecreeper - 7 ; Willow Warbler - 7 ; Peregrine - 1 - over moor by padley gorge ; 319 - 2 - over ; Cuckoo - 1 - on moor
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Wren - breeding confirmed - several singing + birds feeding young ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Blue Tit - breeding confirmed ; Great Tit - breeding confirmed
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin Incline to Greasbrough Lane: Chiffchaff - 3 - 2 singing/anxiety calls; breeding probable ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing
• Redmires conduit: Grey Wagtail - 1 - juvenile at conduit outflow ; Golden Plover - 6 - 3 pairs along conduit ; Great Tit - 1 - Young called from nest when adult landed in isolated rowan tree
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 37 - Inc pair with four young ; Greylag Goose - 18 - Inc pair with young ; Ringed Plover - 1 - Heard over Top Res ; Lapwing - 10 - 5 pairs with young (3,2,2,2,1) ; Curlew - 10 - 5 pairs along conduit from res to small res at top of Oaking Clough ; Snipe - 4 - Territories ; Golden Plover - 3 ; Swift - 3 - Flew west ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25 - On Top Res ; Herring Gull - 8 - On Top Res - mixed bag of ages presumably from the city centre ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - 2 pairs holding territory - Top Res & Bottomg Res
• Renishaw Lake: Gadwall - 10+ ; Sand Martin - 5+ ; Mute Swan - 4+ - 2paits, each with 1 cygnet ; Great Crested Grebe - 2+ - 2 with 1 chick ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - c4 ; 321 - 5+ - 4 juvs in field; 2 juvs in nest being fed by ad ; Canada Goose - 33 - + some goslings (hidden by long grass in field
• Renishaw Park: Chiffchaff - 2 - Heard
• Sheffield Centre: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair holding territory on River Sheaf by Decathlon
• Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair have now lost all 7 of their cygnets. Human foul play or disturbance not suspected ; Grey Heron - 1 - east ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; 319 - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Jay - 5
• Strines Moor: Golden Plover - 4 - 2 pairs near to farm ; Curlew - 11 ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Merlin - 1 - male
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - ad ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 47 - inc pr with 6y ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Canada Goose - 48 ; 319 - 2 - soar.1n1se ; Kestrel - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 - 1-3cy 1-1cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - n ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 2sing ; Blackcap - 6 - 5sing ; Whitethroat - 2 - 1sing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - 5sing
• Wentworth Lakes; Dog Kennel Pond: Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Mallard - 23+ - + 18 juvs in 4 broods ; Moorhen - 7 - adults ; Coot - 15+ - + 13 juvs in 5 broods; 1 adult on nest ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - al adults ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing