Sightings Archive

Ewden Height: Raven - 6 - Flew from Bolsterstone towards Midhope Moor.

Fulwood: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing in observer’s garden ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Again ; 319 - 1 - south ; House Martin - 4+ - Apparently still occupying Moorside nesting colony

Heeley: Swift - 1 - flew south over Thornborough Rd garden at 18:50.

Hillsborough Park: Coot - 10+ - no juvs seen ; Tufted Duck - 1 - ecl drake ; Mute Swan - 3 - pair and one juv

Malin Bridge: Swift - 1 ; Swallow - 4 - over W ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - over W

Midhope Res: Little Grebe - 7 - c4 juvs ; Tufted Duck - 2

Norfolk Heritage Park: Woodpigeon - 15+ ; Magpie - 29+ ; Dunnock - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 8 - feeding on football field ; Great Tit - 5+ ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Blackbird - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 3 - in tree tops ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Robin - 6 - 1 singing others subsong heard ; Coal Tit - 3+ ; Long-tailed Tit - c6 - in group

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - high to W @ 1040hrs

Upper Midhope: House Martin - c70 - 8.15am

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 1 - ad male on Bernard Rdb Incinerator building

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 4 ; Wigeon - 7

Fulwood: Chiffchaff - 1 - Feeding in observer's garden ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Adult male feeding on sunflower hearts in observer's garden this morning

Millhouses: Oystercatcher - 1 - Over calling at 04.10.

Millhouses Marriott Road Garden: Long-tailed Tit - 14 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - with the Long-tailed Tit flock ; Bullfinch - 3 - Male feeding two recently fledged young.

Norwood Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - c75 - over east at 10:55 ; Goldfinch - c35 ; Mistle Thrush - 11 ; Swallow - 10 - south ; Siskin - 3 - south ; Swift - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Mediterranean Gull - 1 - Adult again early morning ; Dunlin - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Lapwing - 16 ; Goosander - 12 - juvs ; Swift - 3 ; Little Egret - 2 - North at 07:00 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Briefly on east side ; Swift - 6+ ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ad and 1w ; Skylark - 2 ; Grey Partridge - 1 - calling ; Wigeon - 1 ; Goosander - 6 - redheads

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 3

R Don, Effingham St: Great Black-backed Gull - 5 - 3 juv, 1 2cy and an adult

R Don, Newhall Rd: Kingfisher - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - fem on building security light, male on steelworks

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Goosander - 4 - redheads, fem and 3 juvs.

Shepherd Wheel: Kingfisher - 1

Shirecliffe Tip: Common Buzzard - 1 - hovering

West Nab: Mistle Thrush - 8 - going to roost in conifers.

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Meadow Pipit - 28 south ; Swallow - 50 south ; Siskin - 30 south ; Tree Pipit - 1 south

Big Moor: Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Swallow - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 ; 324 - 15+ - Red Deer

Botanical Gardens: Swift - 1 - S

Burbage Valley: Treecreeper - 6 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 10 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 10 - Another photo ; Whinchat - 3 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goldcrest - 12 ; Wheatear - 1

Burncross, Chapeltown: Siskin - 6 - Over toward Greno Woods ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - South ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - 2 separate parties of 7 and 3 NW around noon

Cinder Bridge Field: Common Buzzard - Jun-13 - (allowing for duplication) inc 5 together ; Mallard - 46 - E (from Wentworth lakes to R.Don/Aldwarke SF?)

Ecclesall: Willow Warbler - 1 - in garden on Ansell Road - subsong ; Swift - 1 - still feeding overhead

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 1 - Main Res. ; Grey Heron - 2 - In sluice reed bed. ; 319 - 4 - In the air together. ; Swallow - 20+ ; Swallow - 20+