Sightings Archive

Burbage Rocks: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male, showing extremely well

Burbage Valley: Siskin - 2 - Pair in plantation ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

Canyards: Cuckoo - 2 - 2 males

Moorland Fringes: Nightjar - 3 - churring at 2 sites, 21:20-21:30.

More Hall: Blackcap - 16 - 16 singing - More Hall gates to Ewden Village ; Whitethroat - 5 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Wood Warbler - 1 - singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing

Oughtibridge garden: Siskin - 1 - Male on feeder

Padley Gorge: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - usual pair, no sign of a breeding attempt ; Kingfisher - 1 - flew upstream

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 2 - male and female on path, refusing to fly, drawing me along - possible chick in the area?

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal, Rotherham Lock: Greenfinch - 3 - singing within 10m of eachother

Sheffield University: Jay - 2 - Pair watched nest-building in garden of Uni's CiCS building on Brunswick St

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 5 - Heard singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; House Martin - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 3pr ; Mute Swan - 40 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 7 - 5m2f ; 319 - 2 - soar in ne ; Swift - 14 ; Skylark - 6 ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Whitethroat - 5 - 4sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Starling - 12+ - in fields ; House Sparrow - 7+ - on site ; Reed Bunting - 4 - sing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - f

Totley Moss: Kestrel - 1

Whitelow, Dore: Linnet - 4 - inc 2 f + m in full colour ; Swallow - 2

Aldwarke SF: Blackcap - 3 - singing & anxiety calls ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Black-headed Gull - 6 - 4 ads; 2 2cy ; Gadwall - 5 - 4m; 1f (possibly same as seen on nearby river) ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Common Buzzard - 2 - over, mobbed by local crows & BHs ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing briefly ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 - two territorial males & 1 f ; Little Grebe - 1 - 'trilling' ; Coot - 6+ - #NAME? ; Moorhen - 1 ; Sand Martin - 3 - feeding over ; Mallard - 3+ - 2m; 1f; 3 juvs ; Swift - 8 - over ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1pr - m made unsuccessful pass at FP & onto chimney @ 0640hrs; present on and off & joined by f with FP prey @ 0751hrs; f fed & carried part of carcass towards nest site leaving m to feed on remnants!

Barlow Brook: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Swallow - up to 15 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Linnet - 04-May

Blackburn Meadows NR: Reed Warbler - 2 - Singing 17.00 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 4 - 1 pair, 2 calling. ; Jay - 1 ; 324 - 2 - 1 Comma and Orange tip butterflies.

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - pair together at 1600

Causeway Head: Lapwing - 4 - 4 chicks with adults in roadside fields

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew under bridge 15.50 ; Mallard - 10 + - 2 females, one with 9 very young ducklings on river. One with 8 on pond.

Chatsworth Park: 319 - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Sand Martin - 3 - possible nests by the side of the river ; Grey Heron - 1 - flying over

Coombs Dale: Redstart - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - At top end, by Black Harry's Gate

Dalton: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Grange Park Golf Course: Mallard - 1 ; 319 - 1 - chased by 2 carrion crows low over scrub ; Pheasant - 1 - from Watson's Tip ; Woodpigeon - 4+ - sing ; Skylark - 3 - sing