Sightings Archive

Redmires conduit: Kestrel - 1 - male caught a vole and perched up to consume it ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing early morning ; Woodcock - 2 - chasing around deciduous copse ; Curlew - 4 - territorial flights ; Cuckoo - 1 - repeatedly chased off by local Magpies

Redmires Top Res: Siskin - 1 - male in conifers roadside ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - including singing male in Fairthorn Clough ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 - flew through from W - unusual here

Rivelin Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 - On dam wall.

Rotherham; private site: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing

Silver Wood/Old Ravenfield: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling on Pingle Lane Tip

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Raven - 1 - NW at 08.30 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - baffling in south paddocks

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 02-Jan ; Mute Swan - 53 ; Tufted Duck - 14 - 11m, 3f ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 4 - crow ; Common Tern - 1 ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Wren - 11 - sing ; Dunnock - 15 - 10sing ; Robin - 10 - 6sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 16 ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing ; Whitethroat - 9 - 8sing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 4sing ; Yellowhammer - 2 - 1sing

Thrybergh Tip: Chiffchaff - 8 - inc 7 singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc 1 singing ; Whitethroat - 7 - inc 6 singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 5 - 4 singing + 1 male, anxiety calls ; Reed Warbler - 08-Sep - inc 7-8 singing ; Canada Goose - 3prs ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Gadwall - 6 - 3m; 2f + 1; lots of aerial chasing ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr ; Mute Swan - 1pr - pen sitting; cob extremely territorial, not allowing anything to settle! ; Mallard - 3 - drakes ; Cormorant - 1 - SW ; Linnet - 7 - inc song & f carrying nest material ; Reed Bunting - 2prs ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - high to SW ; Willow Tit - 2 - presumed pair, calling ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 4 - crowing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Wadsley: Swift - 2

Walton Dam: Coot - 6 - 2 adults, 4 juvs ; Canada Goose - 2 adults, 7 juvs ; Kingfisher - 1

Westwood CP: Whitethroat - 5

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 6 - 3 pairs ; Willow Warbler - 30 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 3 - Singing

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 - Singing males ; Pied Flycatcher - 1+ - Including one mobbing a GSW

Agden Rocher: Fieldfare - 2 - feeding in sheep field .

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1

Birley Edge: Yellowhammer - 1 - Male singing ; Linnet - 2 - Male and female

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 1

Blacka Moor (DevilsElbow): Redstart - 2 - pair, nesting behaviour ; Wood Warbler - 1 - heard ; Blackcap - 1 - m ; Song Thrush - 1

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling 18:55

Cressbrook Dale: Kestrel - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Heard

Dog Kennel Pond: Sedge Warbler - 1 - brief song

Graves Park: 321 - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 - Heard ; Jay - 1

Great Longstone: Cuckoo - 1 ; Wheatear - 3 ; Redstart - 2

Green Moor: Willow Warbler - 10+ - At least 5 territories ; Willow Warbler - 10+

Hathersage, School Lane: Red Kite - 1 - Circling over Scotsman's Pack being harried by 2 crows

Holbrook Marsh: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing

Holmebrook Valley Park: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - calling in bushes ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair back with nest

Hunter*s Bar: Swift - 1 - Flying over Botanical Gardens

Keppels Field: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing