Sightings Archive

Underbank Res: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Mallard - 30+ - incl well grown juvs ; Siskin - 2+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Walkley: Swift - 40+ - Groups gathered over South Road

West Nab: Little Owl - 1 - sat on its favourite stone wall. ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting from fence posts.

White Lee Moor: Stonechat - 6 - family party. ; Linnet - 9

Agden Beck: Grey Wagtail - 2 - feeding from rocks in beck by bridge

Agden Bog: Long-tailed Tit - 4+ - family party moving through trees ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2

Agden Side: Yellowhammer - 1 - singing male ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Wren - 1

Aldwarke: Cormorant - 4 - NE @ 0736hrs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 - circling over, calling

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Peregrine - 1 - eating prey on top of chimney for c30mins from 0845hrs at least

Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1

Bowden Housteads Wood: Black-headed Gull - 31 - Feeding on flying insects above wood.

Burncross, High Green: Swift - 9 ; Swift - c20 - Screaming low over area 21.30

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 5 ; Mallard - 6+ ; Little Grebe - 1 - Still present. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Adult on grassy area near houses. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Juv on sluice. ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Juv on farmland. ; Kestrel - 3 - Female and two fledged juvs. ; 319 - 1 ; Hobby - 1 - Mobbed by Rooks. ; Swift - 1 - Single through site. ; Swallow - 4 - Resting on wires. ; House Martin - 6 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Calling in sluice Reed bed. ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1+ - Feeding young. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Calling ; Yellowhammer - 3 - All Males. ; Linnet - 5 ; Goldfinch - 3+ - Recent nest now predated. ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 - Fishing on main Res. Early morning.

Middleton Moor: Greylag Goose - 6 - Pair with 4 young almost fledged ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 78 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 4 - 2 ads + 2 3CY with LBBs ; CASPIAN GULL - 1 - ad with LBBs - left to the south at 20:30 ; Black-headed Gull - 68 ; Curlew - 6 ; Lapwing - 18 ; Swallow - 65 - c. Feeding over reed beds ; Sand Martin - 6 ; Pied Wagtail - 52 - on shoreline pre-roost gathering ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Stonechat - 2 - ad + recently fledged juv by reedbed ; Skylark - 2 - separate ads carrying food

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 - singing male + 2 f/juvs ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Herring Gull - 11 - N ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting; caught small mammal ; Blackbird - c20 - feeding on abundant cherries ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Goldcrest - 1 - calling from canopy of roadside tree ; Pied Wagtail - 1+ - male with 2+ fledged juvs, fending off Magpies ; Magpie - 11 - on playing field

Rocher Head/Sick Brook: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing

Rocher Wood/Rocher End: Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1

Roundwood Golf course: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Bullfinch - 2 - calling ; Grey Heron - 1 - SW @ 0736hrs ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling

Roundwood Ponds: Cormorant - 1 - on pylon overlooking ponds

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - 7 - Over Hesley Hall Farm

Aldwarke: Lapwing - 1 - On grass verge near South Yorkshire transport museum 05.30 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Baslow: Red Kite - 1 - Low to west over observer’s house

Birley Edge: Woodpigeon - 100+

Bramley - Flanderwell Avenue: Swift - 40+ - Screeching over gardens, 3 adults visiting separate nests

Burncross, Chapeltown: Swift - 08-Oct ; 319 - 1

Coombs Dale: Kestrel - 1

Ewden Valley: Stonechat - 8+ - 2 poss 3 family parties.