Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 9 - 2f ; Black-headed Gull - 15 - +1jv ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - ad ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Whitethroat - 6 - 2sing 2 visit.nest wi food ; Reed Warbler - 4 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - 2sing

Ughill Moors: Oystercatcher - 2 - no sign of chicks.

Agden Beck: Red Kite - 2 - Over Bradfield Moors and Canyards

Agden Rocher: Redstart - 1 - female and 1+ fledged juvs

Bents Green: Red Kite - 1 - Flying west, quite low over fields above ivy cottage lane

Bradfield: Snipe - 1

Bradfield/rocher Area: Golden Plover - 36 - in field on road from cowell flat to h. Bradfield

Bretton Clough: Tree Pipit - 3 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 3 - 1 and pr

Canklow: 319 - 2 - 2 over near Holiday Inn 18.00, 1 over 18.25.

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling 07:00

Centenary Riverside: Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; 321 - 2 - One on river, one on pond ; Whitethroat - 2 - Pair, presume young nearby.

Cowell Flat: Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Dukes Road: Golden Plover - 12+ - c6 pairs, with birds still singing. One half grown chick seen.

Eastwood, Rotherham; Eldon Rd playing fields: Blackbird - 14 - feeding ; Black-headed Gull - 30 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 11 ; Starling - 24 ; Magpie - 7 - family party ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - Over former tips nr Blackburn est @09:25 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 7 ; Stock Dove - 2 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 2+ - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 4+ ; Swallow - 6 - prob juvs ; Wren - 6+ - singing ; Dunnock - 4+ - inc juvs ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Whitethroat - 4+ - inc 2 singing and several juvs ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 2+ - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - juvs ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Magpie - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 2+ - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1+ - calls

Limb Valley: Woodpigeon - 10+ - incl 2 with display calls ; Nuthatch - 6 - calling ; Robin - 10+ - incl 2 separate juvs ; Mallard - 2 - juv males ; Chiffchaff - 8 - incl 7 singing ; Great Tit - 3+ - ad + 2 juvs ; Moorhen - 3 - 2 ad + 1 chick ; Jackdaw - 5 - 2 ad + 3 juv on chimneys ; Blackcap - 9+ - 6 singing, and 1 m feeding 2 juv ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Tawny Owl - 2 - calling at 07:30 ; Willow Warbler - 12+ - 5 seen and 7 others singing ; House Martin - 2

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 3 - churring at 3 sites.

New Stubbin colliery & tip: Common Buzzard - 2 - singles, over ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - inc 2 singing; probably 2 family parties ; Linnet - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - inc 3 singing ; Whitethroat - breeding confirmed - 2 family parties ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Bullfinch - 01-Feb - calling ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - present - feeding flock inc juvs

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 4 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mallard - 7 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2cy

Peat Pits: Little Owl - 1 - on wires

R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Kingfisher - 2 ; Jay - 1

R Don, Eastwood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 5 ; Moorhen - 1+ - + 2 juvs