Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Grey Partridge - 2 ; Swift - 2

Totley rifle range: Cuckoo - 1

Wadsley Common garden: Goldcrest - 1 - Continually hopping in front of window presumably at it's own reflection.

Wyming Brook: Blackcap - 1 - Male collecting nest material ; Goldcrest - 2 - One bird collecting nest material ; Song Thrush - 6 - Including 2 carrying food ; Cuckoo - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 1 - Another photo ; Swallow - 18 ; Swift - 2 ; Coal Tit - 4 ; Jay - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; Cuckoo - 3 - 1 seen - a further 2 heard only ; Wood Warbler - 2 ; Red Grouse - 1 - seen on the footpath down towards the bottom of Wyming Brook (about 150 yards before you get to the stone bridge). Very unusual! ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Swallow - 4+ - back on site ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male singing perched on top of nesting box

Blacka Hill: Stonechat - 3 - 3 male

Blacka Moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing at devil's elbow ; Goldcrest - 3 - 3 flitting in lower branches at devil's elbow. ; Curlew - 4

Blacka Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 - Singing from tree to tree ; Tree Pipit - 5 - Singing and parachuting ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 9 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Blackcap - 2

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1500

Centenary Riverside: Reed Warbler - 2 - 2 singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; 321 - 1 - pond ; Moorhen - 3 - 1 adult, 2 juveniles river

Crookes: Swift - 1 - Over Western Road

Crookes Valley Park: Canada Goose - 3 - present on lake this morning ; Coot - 2 - pair sitting on nest in NW corner ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Green Moor: Garden Warbler - 2 - Breeding pair, Male singing and nest building

Orgreave: Grey Partridge - 4 - 2 pairs

Orgreave Lakes: Hobby - 1 - Hobby over the earthfill tips just to the south of Orgreave (small lake). ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - at Orgreave (small lake). ; Garden Warbler - 1 - between the bridges at Treeton. ; Swift - 8 ; Whitethroat - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - on the island at Orgreave (small lake). ; Whimbrel - 1 - On Small Lake Island then tip later afternoon ; Wheatear - 1 - On tip ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 - On tip

R Don, Carbrook: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing, and carrying nest material ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Sand Martin - 25+ - One pair enetering nest hole in artificial bank at the Gripple works

R Don, Effingham St: Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 - 5 adults

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent Interchange: Sedge Warbler - 1 - still present & singing @ 0750hrs ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 1+ - f + brood of 4

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - c25

Ranmoor: Swift - 5+ - At height over Ranmoor/Fulwood at 18:10 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flying north

Redmires: Cuckoo - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2 - Pair on far side of middle res ; Willow Warbler - 20+ ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling on far side of middle res ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 4 - At least 4 on top res ; Oystercatcher - 2 - One on top res, one at Brownhills farm

Redmires bottom reservoir: Whitethroat - one

Rivelin Dams: Song Thrush - one - carrying food

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 3 - frantically chasing each other up and down river

Sheffield Centre: Common Buzzard - 2 - circling

Sheffield University: Canada Goose - 3 - over Jessop West at 09:00, presumably the same as at Crookes Valley Park earlier

Stubley Hollow: Blackcap - 3 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Swallow - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - with hidden nest ; Mute Swan - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 18 ; Moorhen - 5 - + ; Coot - 30 - #NAME? ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad in ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 7 ; House Martin - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1