Sightings Archive

Rocher Wood: Redstart - 2 - 1 pair ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing ; Wheatear - 2 - 1 pair

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling at 06.35, moved a bit further along main approach track this morning

Stanage Edge, below: Whinchat - 1 - singing

Tideswell Dale: Chiffchaff - 4

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Goosander - 1 - redhead ; 320 - 2 - a pair ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Mallard - 2 - males ; Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Barlow: Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Skylark - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Rook - 1 ; Pheasant - 2

Broomhead/Ewden: 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair near stone circle ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Near stone circle ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling distantly heard from stone circle ; Lapwing - 20 - Spooked by Kestrel on Broomhead moor ; Curlew - 8 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Seen from Allas lane ; Swallow - 2+ - 2 over Broomhead Hall, one over Broomhead moor ; Willow Warbler - 20+ - Mostly along Mortimer Road and around stone circle ; Chiffchaff - 20+ - Between Broomhead res and Mortimer road ; Treecreeper - 2 - On Allas lane ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Stock Dove - 2 - Pair at Ewden Beck/Ewden Coppice

Dale Dike Res: Common Sandpiper - 3

Ecclesall: Meadow Pipit - 1 - flew south calling mid-morning

Fox Hill: Swallow - 2 - Over near Shaw Hill Farm

Graves Park: 321 - 1 - over ; Mandarin - 2 - a pair on one of small ponds ; Chiffchaff - 1 - heard Chantreyland Meadow

Grenoside: Robin - 1 - Newly fledged first of year

Kelham Island: Kingfisher - 2

Kimberworth: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Perched on top of a gravestone in Masborough cemetery at Kimberworth.

Longshaw: Redstart - 5 - Five singing in the course of a 2km circuit.

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - between 2 lakes

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - NE @ 1225hrs

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - male, over briefly ; Greenfinch - 3 - 2m; 1f in garden

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 7 - 3 chicks, 4 adults ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Curlew - 2 ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - female or imm high over res at far end

Redmires Res: Whitethroat - 2+ - singing males ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair, btm Res ; Linnet - 6+ ; Reed Bunting - 6+ ; Grasshopper Warbler - 3 - 3 reeling males ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 52 - big arrival this morning with a whopping 52 singing around the res perimeter ; Redstart - 1 - singing ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - pair m+f flew in from SW, perched in trees then continued east ; Chaffinch - 1 - male ; Robin - 1 ; Dunlin - 1 - distant, calling ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 6 - inc pair with 6 goslings ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - on Top Res ; Dunlin - 1 - calling briefly overhead at 08:10 hrs ; Oystercatcher - 2 - in fields ; Redstart - 1 - male singing by Top Res ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 2 - reeling on south side of Middle Res ; Willow Warbler - 52 - singing around res perimeter - record count here! ; Swallow - 1 - flew N ; Siskin - 1 - male on feeders by car park ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2

Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 1 - Main Lake ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing Intermediate Lake

Silverwood Lagoon: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling ; Whitethroat - 8 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 15+ - singing

Thrybergh: Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing in disused railway cutting next to Park Lane Bridge.

Treeton: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing near track entrance to Dyke off Mill Lane @08.00

Ulley: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - On telegraph Post on Ulley Lane @ 08.45

Woodhouse Washlands: Whitethroat - 1 - singing male ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing

Agden Side: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling

Bamford Moor: Curlew - 10+ - Calling

Dore: Stock Dove - 2 - a pair feeding below bird feeders in observer’s garden

Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Female in pine tree,calling,then flew south.