Sightings Archive

Woodhouse Tip: Canada Goose - 1 - West along the Shire Brook Valley ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 displaying males ; Skylark - 6+

Beauchief garden: Brambling - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2 - Nest building in garden conifer ; Bullfinch - 3

Chapeltown Park: Willow Warbler - 1

Cowley way,Chapeltown: Wheatear - 1 - Male on bank. near DPD depot.

Elsecar Res: Swallow - 2 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; House Martin - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Grange Golf Course: Kestrel - 1 - Display/ calling ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - Singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Brief song ; 319 - 2 - Calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling ; Bullfinch - Pair

Green Moor: Brambling - 10

Greystones: Brambling - 1 - In observer's garden

Highfield: Dunnock - 1 - Singing from shrubbery around B & Q on Queen's Road ; Blackbird - 1 - male flying into shrubbery by B & Q Queen's Rd. ; Feral Pigeon - 4+

Leash Fen: Merlin - 1 ; Lapwing - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Pheasant - 2

Linacre Res: Chiffchaff - 17 - 15 singing on full circuit of 3 res plus a pair nest-building ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing ; Mandarin - 25 ; Tufted Duck - 51 ; Moorhen - 8 ; Coot - 8 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - Including a nesting pair ; 320 - 2

Malin Bridge: Blackcap - 1 - male singing in gardens

Orgreave Lakes: Mandarin - 1 - male on river ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; Fieldfare - 7 - flew W from plantation beside small lagoon.

Owlthorpe: Blackcap - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Sand Martin - 8 ; Linnet - 2 ; Swallow - 2 - flew E ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 - Male in stream. ; Tawny Owl - 2 - Pair calling at dawn. ; 319 - 1 - Doing Gull like dance for worms in horse paddock. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Tree Sparrow - 2+ - Calling from hedgerow ; Bullfinch - 3 - Active at sunrise. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male.

Green Moor: Brambling - 20

High Storrs: Brambling - 8 - In garden on feeders.

Kilnhurst Ings: Brambling - 1 - Male ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - 20+ - In from 0900 onwards. ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - One White Wagtail by Small Lake

Oughtibridge: Crossbill - 1

Parkgate: Kestrel - 1 - Hovering over the track at the new tram/train station.

Pebley Pond: Blackcap - 1 - Male, first one in the area this year. ; Chiffchaff - 6 - singing ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair with nest material ; Treecreeper - 2 - seen as a pair

Scholes Coppice: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male hunting, almost caught blackbird. ; Woodpigeon - 2+ - sing ; Wren - 3+ - sing ; Dunnock - 2 - sing ; Robin - 7+ - sing ; Blackbird - 3+ - 1 sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Coal Tit - 2 - sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 2+ - sing ; Nuthatch - 2+ - 2 sing ; Chaffinch - 2 - sing ; Brambling - 1+ - calls

Shepherd*s Plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Nuthatch - 1 - sing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Shirecliffe: Lesser Redpoll - 35+ - coming to garden feeders for nyjer seed ; Brambling - 1 - single male today

Silver Wood: Chiffchaff - 7 - 6 singing r/way line, 1 singing main woods ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing (r/way line) ; Kestrel - 1 - farmland to north ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pingle Lane Tip ; Jay - 2 ; Brambling - 3 ; Nuthatch - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair displaying over woods

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 1pr - female now sitting, hopefully this one won't be shot. Male busy chasing off Greylag Geese (and apparently killing at least one