Sightings Archive

Langsett: Kestrel - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Carrying food to probable nest site ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6

Northern General Hospital: Goldfinch - 10+ ; Blackbird - 7 - 6m & 1f ; Magpie - 7 - 2 family groups (2+2 & 2+1), adults feeding young ; Magpie - 7 - another photo ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Wren - 15 - 12 territories in wood by Barnsley Rd ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 10+ ; Feral Pigeon - 3 ; House Sparrow - 3 ; Robin - 5

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing; 1 in tit-flock ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Blue Tit - 10+ - in mixed post-breeding flock ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - in post-breeding flock ; Sparrowhawk - 02-Mar - a female slipped silently through canopy; 2 displaying over woodland later, left S together

Poolsbrook Marsh: Reed Warbler - 6 - inc ad feeding young ; Cetti's Warbler - 4 - family party - pair of ads with at least 2 newly fledged young ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 - pairs in reedbed

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: House Martin - 6 - over playing field ; Magpie - 5 - feeding on playing field

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - carrying nest material into garden Sorbus

Redmires Bottom Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 4+ ; Whitethroat - 1

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 4 - In horse fields, very distant

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; 324 - 2 - young water voles

Rivelin Dams: Crossbill - 1+ - calling

Roundwood Golf course: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2+ - inc 1 singing ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - adult, foraging on fairway ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - SW ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 7+ - post-breeding flock ; Pied Wagtail - 7 - adult with 4 full-grown juvs on greens + 2 over

Thrybergh CP: Common Tern - 7 - Lots of displaying all adults

Wadsley Common: 324 - 1 - A Roe Deer in field to west of Aldene Ave. Our first record for the common.

Wadsley Common garden: Long-tailed Tit - 7 - Family party. ; Blue Tit - 5 - Family party. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Juvenile on feeders ; Robin - 1 - Juvenile on feeders.

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Willow Warbler - 10+ - Including at least 2 juveniles

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 - males still singing. ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - calling

Broomhill: Herring Gull - 2 - Pair being very aggressive; calling loudly from roof tops and dive bombing me to within 2 feet of my head. Never seen this in Sheffield; this species not often seen apparently deffending territory here

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - roding at 21:45

Curbar Gap: Willow Tit - 1 - Calling in trees at the back of the car park then flew to a bush in the direction of White Edge.

Elsecar Heritage Centre: Pied Wagtail - 2 - pair, carrying food

Elsecar Res: Great Crested Grebe - 6+ - pr on water feeding 2 young, 1 on nest

Holdworth: Little Owl - 3 - 3 fledged juv's sat together on farm outbuildings.

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 drumming

Nether Edge: 321 - 1 over ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 heard

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Still present ; Wigeon - 1 - Male on main lake early a.m. ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - Small lake ; Reed Warbler - 1 - 1 singing from reeds north end of main lake early a.m. ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing near Rother bridge. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 4+ - Adults feeding at least one fledgling. ; Sedge Warbler - 4+ - second picture (fledgling) ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; Linnet - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 10+

Parkgate Canal Basin: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing @05.20 ; Whitethroat - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Wren - 2 - Singing ; Blackbird - 1 - Singing ; 321 - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing @ 12.50 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Redmires Top Res: 324 - 1 - Large Skipper

RVCP: Lapwing - 52 - Again all ads ; Common Tern - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 5