Sightings Archive

Roughwood Rec: Kestrel - 1

Abney Moor: Kestrel - 1

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 4+ ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting over recently cut area below W bank. ; Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Sand Martin - 1+ - active near nest site ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - juvs

Firth park park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - Hear calling from trees,but not seen.

Green Moor: Linnet - 13 ; Starling - 80+ ; Whitethroat - 1 - Adult alarm calling. ; Little Owl - 1

Hangingwater garden: Jay - 2 - juvs exploring and calling

Harthill Res: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - at 10:00 ; Little Egret - 1

Limb Valley: 319 - 1

Low Common: 319 - 1 - Causing 80+ WP to scatter across Scholes Ground

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Sand Martin - 1+ ; Swallow - 20+

Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - juv NW ; Redshank - 1 - Not a resident bird

Pebley Pond: Little Egret - 1 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 ; Barnacle Goose - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 - 2 adult 1 juvenile ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Canada Goose - c150 ; Greylag Goose - c45 ; Black-headed Gull - c50

Rivelin Filters: Canada Goose - 70 - flew onto pond from nearby fields ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - juv calling from trees behind houses

Rivelin Valley: Goldfinch - 40 - in field by Tofts Lane

Roper Hill: Cuckoo - 1 - Mobile immature

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 8 - resident pair and 6 well-grown cygnets (lost 2 last week) ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Upper Ewden: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - on moors above shooting lodge

Weston Park: Moorhen - 5 - Adult with 4 fledglings on lake

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Nightjar - 1 - brief churring and several flight calls ; Curlew - 1 - flew over calling ; Green Woodpecker - 2

Castleton area: Redstart - 1m - Near Peakshole Water ; Wheatear - 4 - Cave Dale area

Norwood allotments: Ring-necked Parakeet - 20 - noisy flock of 20 mobbing a passing Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Orgreave Lakes: Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - Circled then flew north

Pebley Pond: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Barnacle Goose - 1 - first record for the area ; Canada Goose - c170 ; Greylag Goose - c50 ; Greylag Goose - c50 ; Oystercatcher - 3 - 2 adult 1 juvenile ; Mute Swan - 8 - resident pair with six young

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 106 ; Herring Gull - 12 ; Black-headed Gull - 38 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ads ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - juv arrived from SE and flew into Redmires Plantation - first record for a while ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Cormorant - 1 - sub-ad flew W

Upper Ewden: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - IOW release bird again late morning and afternoon on moors between Broomhead shooting lodge and Cut Gate footpath. Mainly sat on moor with only occasional short flights.

Agden Rocher: Yellowhammer - 1 - male in srcub near Rocher End ; Yellowhammer - 1 - female near Rocher Head Farm

Dukes Road: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - (IOW release bird) distantly from Agden Side, well up Dukes Road beyond Flint Hill 14:00-14:05.

Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 8 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 175 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Shelduck - 6 - 2 adults plus 4 juveniles ; Redstart - 3 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Stonechat - 4

Monsal Dale: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Grey Heron - 2 - circling together and calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Marsh Tit - 1+ - one seen, others calling ; House Martin - 3 ; Nuthatch - 5+ - calling ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over S ; Magpie - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - calling ; Mandarin - 3 ; 324 - 1 - Silver-washed Fritillary

Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - c7

Norwood Allotments: Swift - 150+ - 3 around most of the day, but 150+ at 16:30. Too high to see without binoculars.

Redmires conduit: Swallow - 5 - At far end, feeding young

Wadsley Common: Swallow - 2 - Back on nest in outbuilding.

Walkley: Swift - 1 - Single flying S. Local nest site unused for 1st time in 10 years.