Sightings Archive

Millhouses Park: Grey Heron - 1

Moorfoot: Greenfinch - 2 - 2 Greenfinch in trees outside entrance to DWP building at bottom of the moor.

Norton Lees garden: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Common Tern - 1 - On tern rail early morning ; Shoveler - 2 - A pair ; Pochard - 11 - 10 drakes & female ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - singles north ; Wigeon - 1 - drake ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Little Gull - 2 - Main lake, mid-afternoon ; Sand Martin - 200+ - Minimum count 09:45 to 11:15. Several parties moving high to NE. ; House Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 20+ ; Peregrine - 2 - Two over at 11:00, much interaction, calling and locking talons at one stage before departing in separate directions. ; Wheatear - 7 - Two S side of small lake, Five W side of main lake. ; Whinchat - 1 - Male ; Wheatear - 7 - 4 males ; Little Gull - 2 - 1adult and 1 st year ; Mallard - 17 - 1female with 7 chicks ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Adult collecting food ; Little Gull - 2 - adult and first winter still present 19:45, photo of adult: ; Common Sandpiper - 4+ ; Ringed Plover - 1

Oughtibridge Garden: Blackcap - 1

Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 1 ; Stonechat - 3

Ramsley Res: Lesser Redpoll - 2

Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 4 - 4 fighting and posturing

Ringinglow, Smeltings Farm: Pied Wagtail - 2

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 'reeling' briefly in low scrub beyond southern end of lagoon at 09.20 ; Whitethroat - 4 - singing ; Snipe - 1 ; Sand Martin - 3

Smithy Wood Business Park-site of coke ovens: Wheatear - 2 ; Skylark - 5 - on ground and singing in flight ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 5+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Sothall: Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0137hr ; Golden Plover - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0139hr ; Gadwall - 2+ - small flock nocmig sound recorded over garden 0308hr ; Blackcap - 1 - snatch of song nocmig sound recorded over garden 0338hr

Thorpe Hesley: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at 23.30. Unusual here

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 98 ; Shelduck - 8 ; Reed Warbler - 1+ ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Sand Martin - 80+

Trans-pennine trail,Station Road, Ecclesfield to Smithy Wood: 319 - 1 - Display flight ; Whitethroat - 1 - Male with nest marerial ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair ; Swallow - 1 - My first this year. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Adult on nest,other one "chipping" calls.

Ughill Moor: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk.

Wadsley Common: Brambling - 5 ; Lesser Redpoll - 7 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Blackcap - 7 - 6 singing males. ; Chiffchaff - 6 - 1 pair, 4 other males singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Woodseats: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing in gardens near junction of Fraser Rd/Archer Rd

Arbourthorne: Chiffchaff - 1 - Playing Fields ; Mallard - 5 - 4m,1f on pond ; Moorhen - 1 - pond ; Goldfinch - 4 - pond ; 321 - 1 - Flew on to rooftop, Eastern Crescent

Blacka Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Singing male just in at Devils Elbow

Canklow: 319 - 3 - Over housing estate 13.05

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling ; Red Kite - 1 - 1 west at 1027 ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - 3 in the air together at 1420

Centenary Riverside: Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing in the reedbed near the bottom of the bank ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair near Ickles lock then river 12.45 ; Moorhen - 8 - Mother with 7 fledglings on pond. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Brief song 13.00 ; Blackcap - 3 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Wren - 5 - 3-4 singing, 1 carrying nesting material. ; Blackbird - 04-May - 1 singing ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair on pond ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Female ; Cormorant - 1 ; Goldfinch - 02-Mar - 1 singing

Endcliffe Park: Stock Dove - 2 - pr by lower pond ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - lower pond

Gleadless Valley: Chiffchaff - 1

Jervis Lumb: Nuthatch - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Wren - 1

Ladybower: Crossbill - 15 - Flock of around 15 calling in trees below Win Hill Pike . Flew off to west above trees.

Malin Bridge: 321 - 1 - nocmig 03:50

Midhope Res: LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 - Female type, flew low from eastern edge of res right across the water before banking, gaining height and headed north at 8.20am. ; Raven - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Food collecting