Sightings Archive

Sunday 26th March 2023

• Birley Edge: 319 - 2 - 2 soaring and calling ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling
• Ecclesall: Whooper Swan - 49 - flew low to the NNE over Ansell Road at 11.05 hrs
• Endcliffe Student Village: Moorhen - 7 - 2 adults on pond with at least 5 small chicks
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing cock ; Skylark - 2+ - singing over adjacent cereal fields
• Firsby Res: Coot - 4 - Main Res. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair no nesting yet. ; Whooper Swan - 70+ - Came from direction of Micklebring heading north @ 11:45AM. ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Mallard - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Over. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Over calling. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting. ; Red Kite - 1 - Arrived from direction of TCP circled briefly the departed. ; Woodcock - 1 - Flushed. ; Skylark - 20 - Lots of activity and singing. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Female. ; Linnet - 20+ - On farmland. ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Chaffinch - 6+ - All singing Males. ; Siskin - 2 - In treetops above sluice. ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - Sheltering in furrow. ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling from sheep paddock. ; Chiffchaff - 4 - Singing.
• Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - pair low over Watson's Tip, 10:40 ; Skylark - 4+ - at least 2 singing from Watson's Tip ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Dunnock - 2+ ; Robin - 6+ - singing ; Blackbird - 4+ ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 4+ ; Woodpigeon - 3+ - singing ; Chaffinch - 2+ - singing ; Greenfinch - 3 - from Driving range ; Linnet - 1+ - in gorse behind 8th tee
• Handsworth: Whooper Swan - 58 - North then turned NE
• Herringthorpe: Whooper Swan - 40+ - Over Broom/Herringthorpe heading north at 12:50.
• Holme Hall: Whooper Swan - 41+ - Flying NW at 14:22
• Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 8 - feeding on verge,in front of flats on Studmoor Road, along with 4 Feral Pigeons ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - active around Ashworth Drive ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - adult male, caught mouse, in small back garden, Remount Way
• Loftshaw Quarry: Oystercatcher - 2 - pair on islet
• Middleton Moor: Whooper Swan - 99 - down on lagoon ; 320 - 14 ; Wigeon - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Common Gull - 357
• Old Ravenfield: Greenfinch - 6+ - Seem to have made a come back in this area. ; Blackbird - 1 - Nest with 3 eggs.
• Oughtibridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling in the woods at the back of the health centre
• Owlthorpe Hill: Whooper Swan - 150+ - 3 flocks heading N/NW between 11:30-12:00 of approx 70+, 50+ and 30+ birds
• Pingle Lane Tip: 319 - 1 - Soaring over site. ; Blackbird - 1 - Nest with 2 eggs along approach track. ; House Sparrow - 10+ - In bungalow garden next to approach track.
• Porter Valley: Mute Swan - 2 - Circled over Mayfield Alpaca farm
• R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Mallard - 4 - 1pr + 2m ; Cormorant - 1 - adult, on river ; 320 - 2prs ; Moorhen - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Stock Dove - 1pr - under Thrybergh Bar Mill bridge ; Kingfisher - 1pr - by nesting bank
• R Don, Salmon Pastures: Dipper - 2 - On bank, one repeatedly diving for a few seconds
• R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Gadwall - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Mallard - 7 - 2prs + 3m ; Cormorant - 4 ; 320 - 3prs ; Stock Dove - 2 - 1 on Thrybergh Bridge; 1 singing
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 2 - song/aerial display
• Redmires: Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 6 - Soughley Lane fields ; 319 - 2 ; Raven - 1
• Redmires Bottom Res: Chiffchaff - 2+ - 2 singing males ; Skylark - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Dunnock - 1 - Singing male ; Pied Wagtail - 1
• Redmires Middle Res: Red Kite - 1 - Headed SE ; Oystercatcher - 2