Sightings Archive

Blacka Moor: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Bole Hill, Treeton: Yellowhammer - 3 - Singing from Hawthorn boundary.

Derwent Valley Swine side: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Whinchat - 2 - Singing , seemed to be on territory.

Ecclesall: Common Buzzard - 7 - 3 pairs & a lone bird circling over Ansell Road at 10:45 hrs - unprecedented!

Endcliffe Park: Coot - 5 - Pair on nest with 3 chicks. Inept parent arrived with food then lost it ; Long-tailed Tit - c10

Foulstone Delph: Swallow - 5 ; Cuckoo - 2 - both birds calling. One with a distinctive " cucwoo" call. ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk. ; 319 - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing. ; Wren - 2

Fulwood garden: Robin - 3 - incl 2 fledged juvs

Keppels Field: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from Willow ; Linnet - 6+ ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing from scrub ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing

Keppels Field,W edge: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Linnet - 1

Kimberworth Park: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from roof top, Roughwood Road, near school ; Blackcap - 1 - singing from Roughwood School

Ladies* Spring Wood: 319 - 1 in wood

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1m ; Chiffchaff - 1 calling

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 1 - several bursts of brief churring from 21:03 - equals the earliest date for the SBSG recording area.

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 8 ; Shelduck - 4 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - in phragmites (also grebe's nest seemingly deserted - currently occupied by a Coot). ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Shelduck - 4 ; 319 - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - second picture ; Whooper Swan - 8 ; Whooper Swan - 8 - At least 2 possibly 3 Adults ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing male ; Common Sandpiper - 2

Parkwood Springs: Cormorant - 1 - Flying West and then heading out over the Don Valley. ; Swallow - 2 - Pair flying/feeding over heather/scrub ; Bullfinch - 1 - Single Male in bushes

R Rother, Bolehill: Goosander - 2 - 2 males on river

Redmires Middle Res: Wheatear - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 8 - inc 2 pairs with 4 and 1 young on Top Res ; Greylag Goose - 20 - c. inc 3 pairs with a total of 12 young ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 4 pairs on Top Res ; Mallard - 6 - inc pair with 10 young on Top Res ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Common Sandpiper - 6 ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - reeling by Middle Res ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - male singing from willows by Top Res ; Redstart - 1 - male singing by Top Res ; Swallow - 4 ; Herring Gull - 10 - on Middle Res ; Cuckoo - 1 - male singing by Top Res

Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2

Richmond: Swift - 1 - First of year west 1955

Rivelin Dams: Wood Warbler - 3 - singing males. ; Siskin - 2 - pair, male singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 2

Scholes Coppice, Bell Pits: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing

Scholes Coppice, SE corner: Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing and parachuting ; Willow Warbler - 5+ - Singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - Brief call, not seen ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Calling ; Chaffinch - 5+ - Singing

Stanedge Pole: Stonechat - 1

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 2 - another photo

Bar Brook Valley: Redwing - 1

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 1 - 500 metres bellow Piper’ Gate

Cowell Flat: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling briefly ; Whinchat - 1 - female ; Lapwing - 4 - inc 2 chicks W side of road

Holling Dale: Ring Ouzel - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - pair in sheep field. ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Lapwing - 5 - in sheep field.