Sightings Archive

Dukes Road: Red Grouse - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Fox House: Merlin - 1 - chasing Pipit over Stony Ridge

Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Great Crested Grebe - 8 - 5 adults ; Mute Swan - 6 - family - 4 juvs sat feeding in grass, near people on bench at W end, adult - Y645 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 30+ - including at least 2 family parties ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Coot - c.10 ; Moorhen - 1

Greystones: Willow Warbler - 1 - Observer's garden

Middle Common: 319 - 1 - hunting over cover crop

Morley Plantation, (E): Nuthatch - 1+ - calls

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 3 adults ; Mute Swan - 6 - family, 4 juvs ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Swallow - 1+ ; House Martin - 1+

Norfolk Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - male perched on roof looking over regular House Sparrow haunt

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 179 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Ramsley Res: Marsh Harrier - 1 - Cream crown with tag on right wing flew north, late morning

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Swallow - 3 - juvs, S/SE together @ 1350hrs

Ringinglow: Swift - 3 - Over Lady Canning Plantation

Ringinglow Bog: Red Grouse - 10

Wheston: Marsh Harrier - 1 - immature over high SE E of Monks Dale

Birley Edge: Swift - 15-20

Bradwell: Raven - 2

Bradwell Edge: 319 - 3 - in air together ; Kestrel - 2

Ecclesfield: Whitethroat - 2 - Trans-Pennine Trail ; Swallow - 10 - Adults feeding young on roof of DPD depot,Smithy Wood. ; Swift - 3 - Screaming, High St at 20:40

Greystones: Willow Warbler - 1 - Observer's garden

Loxley Valley: Kingfisher - 1 - flying downstream near Storrs Bridge ; Dipper - 2 - on River Loxley downstream of Storrs Bridge ; Kingfisher - 1 - calling at south-eastern end of Old Wheel Dam

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c2000 - Large roost, 3 colour rings. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 13 - mainly adults, a few 2s/3s ; Yellow Wagtail - 3 ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 - juvs ; Common Gull - 1 - 2cy ; Shelduck - 3 - juvs ; Little Egret - 3 - 2 dropped in 20:20 leaving N 20:40, one still present at dusk. ; Starling - c50 - roosted ; Pied Wagtail - c30 ; Swallow - c80 ; 320 - 5 ; Whitethroat - 1

Monk*s Dale: Red Kite - 2

Padley: Wren - 6+ - very recently fledged juvs being fed by 2 adults ; Willow Warbler - 1 - calling in trees near Lawrence Field

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Swift - 3 - W/SW @ 0915hrs

Redmires: Swallow - 9 ; 319 - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 ; Herring Gull - 4

Shatton: Nuthatch - 1 ; Pheasant - 1f ; Swallow - 1

Crowhole: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 - one doing display flights ; House Martin - 4+ ; Swallow - 4+

Ecclesfield: Swift - 18 - Screaming in flock, High St at 20:45

Firsby Res: Sparrowhawk - 3+ - 3+fledged young calling ; Rook - 24 - 3+fledged young calling

Longley Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 25 - Flock chased Sparrowhawk off to the east. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Chased by Parakeets.

R Don, Effingham St: Goosander - 2 - redheads, my first here since spring.

Silverwood Lagoon: Raven - 1 - south at 09.30

Thrybergh CP: Grey Heron - 3 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Swallow - 6 ; House Martin - 6 ; Sand Martin - 4 ; 319 - 4 ; Goldfinch - C80

Canklow: Raven - 1 - 1 north at 1300

Carr Vale: Dunlin - 2 - flew NW

Castleton: Sparrowhawk - 1

Middleton Moor: Greenshank - 2 ; Common Scoter - 1 ; 320 - 9 ; Shelduck - 5 - All juvs

Midhope Beck: 319 - 4 ; Kestrel - 3

Midhope Res: Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 17 - including 3 large fluffy juvs. ; Mallard - 37 ; Little Grebe - 8 - including at least 3 imms

Nether Green: Swift - 2 - Last sighting of local resident Swifts

Redmires: Wheatear - 1 - on moors above top res carpark at 15:00

Walkley Bank: Tawny Owl - 1 - perched on chimney pot on Bole Hill Rd at 21:15

White Lee Moor: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Red Kite - 1 - 2cy or older ; Crossbill - 3 - inc this juv

White Rake: Wheatear - 2