Sightings Archive

Totley Moor: Swallow - 11+ ; Meadow Pipit - 7 ; Kestrel - 3 - 2 seen together

Upper Ewden: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Juv hunting. ; Red Kite - 3+ - In air together. ; Kestrel - 4 ; WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - IOW bird still Upper Commons area all afternoon, made 5 short flights 12:30-15:45. Largely unmolested by other large raptors in the area.

Bamford Edge: Wheatear - 1

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 3 - 3 birds in eclipse.

Clod Hall Moor: Stonechat - 2 - juvs ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 - roving flock ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Ewden Valley: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - Released immature seen again from Ewden shooting cabin this afternoon

Graves Park: Kingfisher - 1 - obs first here in 3 years

Green Moor: Hobby - 1 - adult harrying swallows

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 - Juvenile ; 320 - 36 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Lapwing - 13

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Goldcrest - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - in 2 flocks ; Stock Dove - 9 - 3 singles N/NW & 6 in horse paddock ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - E ; Swallow - 8 - all W ; Sand Martin - 2 - W ; House Martin - 1 - W ; Jay - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling ; Kestrel - 1 - f/juv ; Common Buzzard - 1 - low to W/NW, returning E/SE soon after ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Blackcap - 2 - calling

Orgreave Lakes: Goosander - 4 - 4 females on main lake. ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - 2 feeding east side main lake.

Orgreave Tip: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Chasing blackbird.

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 2 ads & 1 sub-adult on playing field ; Herring Gull - 1 - sub-adult, playing field ; Black-headed Gull - 8 - playing field

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 05-Jun - calling from scrub ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - E/NE ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Swift - 1 - W/SW @ 0950hrs

Redmires Top Res: Little Egret - 1 - Arrived 07:15. Left 07:30. Seen taking a frog

Silverwood Lagoon: Wigeon - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - regular adult ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - calling in phragmites ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Canada Goose - 27 - in stubble fields to west ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Grey Heron - 1 - east ; Red-legged Partridge - c.80 - in stubble fields to west. Released by local shoot ; Common Buzzard - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jay - 7 ; House Martin - 15 - over Woodlaithes end of pit top ; Long-tailed Tit - c.35 - big flock roaming paddocks either side of main approach track

Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 5+ - pair still feeding at least 3 young-perched on edge of nest looking ready to fledge. ; 319 - 2 - Flew into garden and perched briefly on tree before being seen off by 7 magpies.

Barlow Common: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Swallow - 6+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Ecclesall: House Martin - 4 - feeding over Ansell Road at dusk

Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1 - heard ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - heard

Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 2 - 1 Male & 1 Juv ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew through

Handsworth: Green Sandpiper - 1 - SE at 13.20

Hathersage: 319 - 1 - Mobbed by Crow

Hay Dale: Jay - 1 ; Finch sp - 15+ - Mixed flock - Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Blue Tit ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Wren - 1

Midhope Res: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Female quartering low over western shore 13.15 before slowly rising and circling above res and joined by 2 Buzzards ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - Feeding with Pied Wags along dam wall. ; Peregrine - 1 - Circled low over dam wall before rising above res. ; 320 - 15 - Numbers rising ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Little Grebe - 14 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 NW ; Pied Wagtail - 10+ ; Linnet - 2 ; 321 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Millhouses: House Sparrow - 40-50 - Springfield Rd garden

Orgreave Lakes: Mediterranean Gull - 1 - Adult ; Yellow Wagtail - 6 ; Swift - 6 ; 320 - 7 ; Shoveler - 3 - Eclipse drakes ; Grey Partridge - 5 ; Whinchat - 3