Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult circling site before heading E. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 10+ - Adults and juvs. ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling near stream ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 - Bathing in a puddle. ; Goldfinch - 50+ - Adults and juvs on seed heads. ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - Calming from Brambles. ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Pair. ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Rook - 10+ - Down on stubble with other Corvids. ; Jackdaw - 2 - Over. ; House Martin - 20+ - Over site. ; Swallow - 25+

Graves Park: Kingfisher - 1 - juv on boating lake ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - female

Greystones Close: Short-eared Owl - 1 - 08:30 - discovered on garden fence!

Oaking Clough: Swallow - 2 - pair still feeding young in old shooting lodge ; Chiffchaff - 3 - in clough

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 30 ; Little Grebe - 7 ; Pochard - 55 ; Black-headed Gull - 170 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 25 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 - 2 mature juv's ; Greylag Goose - 100 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Little Egret - 2 ; Gadwall - 14 ; Cormorant - 8 ; Grey Heron - 2 - 1 juv ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; 320 - 2 ; Herring Gull - 6

Porter Brook, General Cemetery: Grey Wagtail - 1

R Don, Sanderson*s Weir: Dipper - 1 - Adult on weir.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Siskin - 1 - heard over @ 0645hrs

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 4 - ad & juvs ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kestrel - 3 - juvs ; Raven - 2 - flew E ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over Broadshaw Plantation ; Lapwing - 5 - in fields ; Black-headed Gull - 7 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 ; Willow Warbler - 12 - around reservoir perimeter ; Chiffchaff - 11 - around reservoir perimeter ; Spotted Flycatcher - 4 - in trees on conduit ; Stonechat - 4 - family party on track to Stanage ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - in Fairthorne Clough ; Swallow - 40 - flew SW ; House Martin - 3 - flew SW ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 - 2 ads flew W + juvs on dam wall and conduit ; Blackcap - 1 - male in Fairthorn Clough ; Meadow Pipit - 30 - c. ; Wheatear - 2 - singles - dam wall & conduit ; Crossbill - 1 - heard ; Siskin - 10 - c.

Silverwood Lagoon: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - sang briefly at 09.20 ; Swallow - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 - party NW ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Linnet - 8

Stanage Edge: Meadow Pipit - 30 - post-breeding flock

Treeton SF: Peregrine - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - second photo

Upper Common, Scholes: Wheatear - 1 - feeding along dried out tractor tracks

Walkley: Tawny Owl - 2 - flying over houses on Moorsyde Avenue at 21:00

Walkley Cemetery: Raven - 1 - in flight overhead, calling and "tumbling"

Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 ; Moorhen - 4 - 2 adults with fully gown juvs. ; Coot - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Wigeon - 1 - Female/juv. ; Sparrowhawk - 3 - Adult Female with 2 juvs calling over set aside. ; Hobby - 1 - Mobbing Buzzard over set aside field. ; 319 - 1 - Over set aside with Hobby and SHs. ; Kestrel - 1 - Over Arbour Lane. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 2 adults over. ; Herring Gull - 1 - Juv over. ; Pheasant - 6 - Family party. ; Grey Partridge - 2+ - Calling in long grass. ; Chiffchaff - 4+ - Inc 1 singing bird. ; Blackcap - 2+ - Juvs in Brambles near newly built cottage. ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 - On stubble field. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Fledglings. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Swallow - 10+ ; Jay - 1 - Calling in willows.