Sightings Archive

Wortley: 319 - 1+ - Display and calling over small woods near A628 junction 4.30pm

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - 90+ - good numbers still around Viridor site and Effingham St weir. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 9 - imms ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 - adults

Bamford: Dipper - 1 - On River Derwent ; Mandarin - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1

Barlborough: Willow Tit - 2 - In different locations ; Bullfinch - c5 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - c6 - several singing ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Linnet - 2+ ; Common Buzzard - 3 - Pair moving off an intruder

Bradway: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing - Dore & Totley Golf Course

Brown Edge Farm: Swallow - 2 ; Curlew - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Lapwing - 2

Canklow Woods: Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Catcliffe Flash: Sand Martin - 3

Chapeltown: Swallow - 1 - Cowley Lane - on telephone wires by traditional breeding site PM ; 319 - 4 - Circling PM ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; House Sparrow - c10 - Regular to feeders ; Greenfinch - 1 - Singing

Clough, streamside: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Hunting. Carried on low over ground W across Fenton Rd. ; Skylark - 2 - singing adj fields ; Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 2+ - sing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Blackcap - 3 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - sing ; Pheasant - 1+ ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Chaffinch - 1 - sing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls ; Dunnock - 1 - sing

Derwent Moor: Red Grouse - 14+ ; Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Whinchat - 1 - Male ; Stonechat - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 8+ ; Lapwing - 6+ ; Kestrel - 1 ; Curlew - 2

Ecclesall Woods: 319 - 1 - Leisurely circling low over Cow Lane area

Fulwood Booth: Wheatear - 1m ; Skylark - 2

Fulwood Head: Raven - 1

Grange Golf Course: Swallow - 2 - Back on territory near club house ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Green Moor: Brambling - 1 - Straggler with symptoms of Trichomonosis, phone record shot

Harthill Res: Great Crested Grebe - 8 ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing in reedbed

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 30+ - 30 ads + 28 ducklings ; Coot - 5 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1+ ; Chiffchaff - 3

Kiveton: Whitethroat - 2 - singing in country park south of village ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - male singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing in small reedbed ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing

Lawrence Field: Tree Pipit - 4 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Redstart - 1 - Male ; Willow Warbler - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Curlew - 3

Lowedges: 319 - 1 - over Greenhill Park, calling and drifting northwards

Orgreave: Grasshopper Warbler - 2 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 2

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 2 - on small lake mid-morning ; Redshank - 6 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - ad dropped into island on small lake mid-morning ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling by river ; Black-headed Gull - 80 - c. ; Black-headed Gull - 80 - c. ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Wheatear - 1 - female ; Great Crested Grebe - 8

Owlthorpe: Skylark - 4 - singing ; Blackcap - 9 - Nine singing during a 3km circuit. ; Whitethroat - 3 - Three singing.