Sightings Archive

Sunday 21st April 2019

• Five Weirs Walk: Lapwing - 2 - Stevenson Road site ; Stock Dove - 2 - Norfolk Bridge area/Effingham Street
• Forge Dam: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - mobbed by rooks
• Hallam Moor: Stonechat - 1 - male in bracken - path north from Redmires conduit to top of Reddicar Brook
• High Bradfield: Barn Owl - 1
• Hollow Meadows: Oystercatcher - 2 - pair in fields - presumably different to Redmires birds
• Intake: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Feeding on back lawn area of John Heath & Sons
• Leash Fen: Lapwing - 6 - fields and trees just to the north ; Kestrel - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Linnet - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Raven - 1 - across Leash Fen
• Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 1
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 2 ; Redstart - 2
• Pit-house West: Reed Warbler - 2 - Singing males ; Whitethroat - 2 - Pair
• R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - 4 singing; pair foraging ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - breeding confirmed - 1 recently hatched chick ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Kingfisher - 1pr - around nest site ; Mallard - 1pr ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Tawny Owl - present - freshly cast feather
• R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Kingfisher - 1 - flew upriver ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 - drake
• Redmires: Skylark - 2
• Redmires Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - reeling ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 54 - around res perimeter ; Canada Goose - 20 - c. ; Greylag Goose - 10 - c. ; Mallard - 20 - c. ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 2m+3f ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling from within Redmires Plantation ; Oystercatcher - 4 - Two pairs ; Lapwing - 16 - c. 8 pairs along the conduit including 1 pair and 4 newly hatched young ; Curlew - 6 - 3 pairs along conduit ; Snipe - 3 - territories ; Golden Plover - 1 - displaying along conduit ; Redshank - 1 - on Top Res ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - 1 pair on Top Res ; Black-headed Gull - 4 - ads - 1 pair left to the W ; Swallow - 2 - around works ; Blackcap - 1 - male singing by Top Res ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling from track from Top Res to Stanedge Pole ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - calling by Top Res ; Linnet - 10 - 5 pairs holding territories ; Chaffinch - 9 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 3 - Calling and interacting by water ; Oystercatcher - 2
• Redmires, Hammond*s Field: Curlew - 2+ - 2 observed but more heard in surrounding area. Photo of individual in flight in response to overhead Buzzard. ; 319 - 1 - In flight
• Rocher Wood: Redstart - 7 - Singing males ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Singing male ; Brambling - 2 - Singing males ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 - 1 pair
• RVCP: Whitethroat - 2 - Singing males
• RVCP, Main Lake: Barnacle Goose - 3
• Sheffield Centre: Blackbird - 1 - singing among crowds in Peace Garden ; Wren - 1 - singing in barren part of Pinstone St
• Shepherd Wheel: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1
• Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing at Woodlaithes end of pit top. First of year here about a week earlier than usual ; Whitethroat - 10+ - singing birds now widespread on pit top ; Linnet - c.16 - breeding pairs scattered widely in suitable habitat around pit top ; Common Buzzard - 2
• Stocksbridge: Lapwing - 12 - 12 adults and at least 7 newly-hatched chicks in horse pasture off Lee House Lane
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1pr with hidden nest ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 8 - inc.2n-6s ; Mute Swan - 48 ; Gadwall - 6 - 3pr ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; 319 - 2 - soar in nw ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - thro.n ; Oystercatcher - 1 - left w ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 11 - sing +1f ; Whitethroat - 7 - 5sing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Tree Sparrow - 1