Sightings Archive

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 20+ - over in small parties ; House Martin - 3 - over ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 - 2 SW; 2 N; 4 S

R Don, Effingham St: Common Tern - 1 - circling high above at 19.18 and then slowly descending NE ; Sand Martin - 7

Rawmarsh: Peregrine - 1 - adult, over from S, distracted by local FPs circled over & lost from sight @1135hrs

Rivelin Dams: Woodcock - 2 - near small carpark at dams, 2 flew along path , almost collided with me before veering off into woods

Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 4 - 1 SW; 1 N; 2 dropped in ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Herring Gull - 1 - NE ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Black-headed Gull - c45 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - males, feeding on fairway

RVCP, Main Lake: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing

RVCP, Northern Lake: Common Tern - 2 - a pair present

Sheffield University: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - Flying about Royal Hallamshire Hospital area. Similar presence of small numbers in past two weeks, especially inlate afternoon/early evening

Shepherd Wheel: Mallard - 2 - 1 male and 1 female on the lower pond below Shepherd's wheel ; Nuthatch - 2 - Feeding in trees on path leading to Shepherd's Wheel ; Blackcap - 2 - Male singing in trees between the Porter and the upper pond. Joined by female. ; Mallard - 2 - A male and female on the upper pond which feeds Shepherd's wheel. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Perched on metal railings above Shepherd's wheel

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling

Stanage Edge, below: Wheatear - 6+ - 1 possibly 2 males but a notable number of females present and active, more than noted over the previous weeks where mainly males were observed. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Wheatear - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 - s ; Mute Swan - 7 - inc. 4left w ; Gadwall - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 12 - 8m4f ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - w ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 - crow ; Whimbrel - 1 - past s 0700 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - on front ; Common Sandpiper - 4 - party flushed by dog walker ; Common Tern - 3 - inc 1s1s ; Swift - 70 ; Swallow - 60+ ; Sand Martin - 10+ ; House Martin - 100+ ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - singles ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 7 - singing ; Whitethroat - 5 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Great Tit - 11+ - iinc pair with 5+jv in treetops

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 2+ - Singing males, potentially at least one new territory ; Tree Pipit - 3 ; Linnet - 4

Wire Mill: Robin - 3 - woods below Wire Mill dam ; Coal Tit - 2 - Male and female with food seen entering and exiting nest site ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Dipper - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Wire Mill Dam: Mallard - 8 - 7 malea and female with a duckling ; Mandarin - 4 - 1 pair + 2 males ; Swallow - 2 - Flying over the dam feeding.

Wyming Brook: Spotted Flycatcher - 1

Bingham Park: Nuthatch - 3 ; Blackcap - 2 - Males, singing ; Robin - 1 - Recently fledged

Birley Wood Golf Course: Swift - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing from scrubland above clubhouse ; Great Tit - 2 - 2 fledglings ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Canklow Woods: Red Kite - 1 - 1 north over boston castle then south and lost to view at 1815

Ecclesfield Park: Swift - 1

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 4 - M&F ; Grey Heron - 1 - Lower pond ; Song Thrush - 1

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair have returned to site but not to nest. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing ; Blackbird - 1 - On nest in the rain early morning. ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing in reed beds at each end of main Res. ; Blackcap - 7 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 5

Hathersage: Swift - 1 - Circling high over Roslyn Road ; Goldfinch - 2 - Pair on dandelion clocks ; Greenfinch - 1 - On oak tree