Sightings Archive

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantn: Swallow - 3 - NW

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 10 - 9 singing males, 1 female, nest under construction ; Tree Pipit - 3

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2

Centenary Riverside: Whitethroat - 1 - Singing and alarm call 16.10 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Pair ; Goldfinch - 2 - Singing ; Jackdaw - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Near Ickles lock ; Canada Goose - 4 - Pair on pond with 2 young

Chapeltown: Swift - 1 - Back over breeding site 18.15

Ecclesall: Swift - 1 - flew W mid-afternoon - late arriving this year

Graves Park: Chiffchaff - 2

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Crossbill - 30-35 - Feeding in the pine trees and then mobile around the plantation

Ladybower Res, North arm: Mallard - 20+ - 10 ducklings between 2 adults ; Canada Goose - 20+ - 6 goslings ; Meadow Pipit - 8+ ; Siskin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 6 - 3 juveniles ; Greylag Goose - 13 - 7 goslings ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5 - Singing ; Wren - 1 - Singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Swallow - 3 ; 324 - 1 - Male Roe Deer

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; Reed Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Wheatear - 2 - Males ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 ; Herring Gull - 8 - inc 4 ads ; Curlew - 2 ; Dunlin - 11 - Party of 7 ads in summer plumage + 4 further ads which circled No.4 lagoon at 19.25 hrs before departing W ; Ringed Plover - 3 - 1 ad present with Dunlin joined by 2 at 19:15 hrs ; Swift - 2 - flew W ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing in reedbed ; Reed Bunting - 2 - males ; Red-legged Partridge - 2

Middlewood: Swift - 10 - Over trees behind Asda ; Swift - 1 - Entering roof on Ganton Road

Moorfoot: Greenfinch - 3+ - 2 males, one female in trees outside Manpower/Council building entrance. ; Mallard - 2 - Pair asleep on the pavement on The Moor

Orgreave Lakes: Whinchat - 1 ; Wheatear - 2 - Males ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - female ; Black Tern - 4 ; Arctic Tern - 2 ; Skylark - 25+ ; Ringed Plover - 3 ; Swallow - 150 ; Sand Martin - 20+ ; House Martin - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 7+ ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - Defending female Mallard and 5 chicks from gang of male Mallards ; Arctic Tern - 1 - Large lake ; Black Tern - 4 ; Black Tern - 4 ; Common Tern - 3 - late afternoon ; Common Tern - 3 - another photo ; Black Tern - 4 - still present this evening ; Black Tern - 4 - another photo ; Black Tern - 4 - on tern rail ; Arctic Tern - 1 - arrived c.18:00 and present till 19:00 ; Hobby - 1 - caught a Swift this evening ; Swift - 400+ - main lake swarming with Swifts late afternoon ; Goosander - 3 - males ; Cormorant - 1 ; Kittiwake - 1 - adult for 5 minutes 13:45-13:50, left S ; Yellow Wagtail - 5 ; Whinchat - 2 - females by feeder stream this evening ; Dunlin - 7 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Kittiwake - 1 - another photo ; Ringed Plover - 1 - small and dark 'tundrae', bird tonight.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Goldfinch - 2 - fully fledged & independent juvs in garden

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 3 - 1 male on Wolf Wheel and 2 males on Corn Mill pond

Rother Valley CP: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Heard between Meadowbank and small wildlife lakes.

Silverwood Lagoon: Whinchat - 1 - in open area of weeds and low scrub below NW corner of lagoon at 09.20 (heard and brief views in poor weather,, probably a female)

Treeton Dyke: LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1

Tyzack*s Dam: Swallow - 2 - My first sighting this year.

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Aldwarke: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 4 - 1pr down, 1 pair over ; Linnet - 3 - 2 over + 1 singing ; Lapwing - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on abandoned conveyor; chased off SW by crow ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - female