Sightings Archive

R Don, Aldwarke: Long-tailed Tit - present - noisy post-breeding flock

R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mallard - 3 - 1pr + 1f ; Kingfisher - 1 - flew upriver ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

R. Don Attercliffe: Mallard - 1F, 10Y - Top of East Coast Rd Weir. ; Grey Wagtail - 4 ; Great Tit - 2 Y - East Coast Rd Bridge

Redmires Plantation: Cuckoo - 2 - 2 male Cuckoos one chasing the other away and competing calls ; Crossbill - 2 - Red Male and dull Female sat in a dead tree with a singing Chaffinch ; Chaffinch - 10 - numerous singing males and foraging females ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - Singing Males ; Willow Warbler - 20+ - at least 20 singing males across the plantation. at least 3 males seen repeatedly heading down with food into probable nests in amongst the bracken alongside the track to Stanage Pole ; Robin - 2

Sharrow: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - heard (probably in flight) near junction of Kenwood Road and Sharrow View

Shillito Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - ad fem collecting food ; Yellowhammer - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 6+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2 - a pair ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - singing to east

Stanage Edge: Snipe - 1 - Standing on the ground a little S of High Neb

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 24 ; Gadwall - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 4m,1f ; 319 - 3 - soaring ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 4 - crowing ; Skylark - 4 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 7 - 6 singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Whitethroat - 5 - 1 singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Great Tit - 28+ - inc 4 families ; Blue Tit - 11+ - inc.2 fams ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - ad ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 55 - inc,2pr with 3y2y ; Tufted Duck - 10 - 4f ; 319 - 1 - soar se ; Kestrel - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad with greasy face ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past s ; Swift - 20+ ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Sand Martin - 4+ ; Swallow - 8+ ; Blackcap - 3 - 2 sing+ ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Magpie - 21 - inc 4pr with jvs ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3 singing ; Yellowhammer - 1

Thrybergh Tip: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 5 ; Mute Swan - 2+ - a pair + 1 cygnet ; Coot - 2 - very little activity on water today ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 2 - singles SW ; Canada Goose - 6 - E @ 0806hrs ; Cormorant - 2 - NE, circled & back SW ; Blackcap - 8 - singing ; Bullfinch - 5+ - + 1-2 juvs calling ; Song Thrush - 4 - inc 3 singing ; Linnet - 8 - inc 4 singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 5+ - singing ; Wren - breeding confirmed ; Whitethroat - 4 - 2 singing + anxious pair ; Stock Dove - 2 - Thrybergh Bridge ; Long-tailed Tit - breeding confirmed

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 1

Attercliffe: Barn Owl - 1 - SE over Don Valley Bowl at 21.40

Ball St Bridge: Sand Martin - 6 - Nest prospecting in river bank wall

Bramley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female over houses.

Bridgehouses Roundabout: Sand Martin - 3

Canklow Woods: Swift - c60 - feeding over woods 20L00 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling at 21:10

Centenary Riverside: Barn Owl - 1 - Over site, flew S/W 04.15 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2