Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - Adult feeing chicks in nest near road. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Blackbird - 8 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Still present. ; Whitethroat - 5 - All singing. ; Blackcap - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Linnet - 2 - Pair taking nesting material into bramble patch. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Willow Tit - 2 - Pair together. ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 - Male calling. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 - Both sat on nests. ; Skylark - 2 - In set aside field. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling ; Wheatear - 5 - In Horse paddock. ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Willow Tit - 3

Grange Park Golf Course: Stock Dove - 1+ - Adult from nest in gnarled oak,calls of young @ Barber Wood ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Swallow - 1 ; Wren - 9+ - sing ; Robin - 7 - sing ; Blackbird - 4+ - sing ; Song Thrush - 5 - sing ; Blackcap - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - sing ; Bullfinch - 1 - male feeding among wild flowers@ Thundercliffe Grange

Hillsborough: Mallard - 1 + 6 - Duck 'weir training' 6 ducklings at Hills' corner. All swam downstream as some ducklings caught in torrent.

Longshaw: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Pair, with male busily marking out their territory in song ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - male ; Redstart - 2 - pair ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard only, calling from Padley Gorge

Malin Bridge: Swallow - 1 - flying W over Hawthorne St ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on shoal downstream from bridge

Manor Fields Park: Moorhen - 5 - 2 ad 3 young ; Mallard - 12 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Swallow - 2 - Low thru N 05:45. ; Linnet - 10 ; Whitethroat - 6 - 5 singing males ; Blackcap - 4 - 3 males ; Chiffchaff - 3

Orgreave Lakes: Shelduck - 1 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Snipe - 1 - Flew from north bank ; Wheatear - 4 - In northeast corner this morning.

Peat Pits: Wheatear - 2 - Pair

Rowlee Bridge: Cuckoo - 1 ; Whinchat - 1 - Male singing

Squirrel Castle plantation: Tawny Owl - 1 - Moved from roost by blackbirds ; Robin - 1 - sing ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 1+ - sing

Treeton Dyke: Garden Warbler - 2 - at S end. ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - near garden warblers ; Mallard - 1 - female with 8 young on small N pond.

Wadsley: House Martin - 1 - 1 back on territory since 3rd on Carlton Road

Wilcox*s Plantation: Song Thrush - 1 - sing adj to wood ; Blackcap - 1 - sing

Wingfield, Town Lane Cemetery: Robin - 1 - sing ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Chaffinch - 1 - sing

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1+ - male chivying single Canada Goose, fem presumed on nest ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Gadwall - 5 - 4m, 1f ; Pochard - 1 - male ; Tufted Duck - 3 - a pair + 1m ; Cormorant - 1 ; Moorhen - 2+ ; Coot - 7+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1

Centenary Riverside: Whitethroat - 4 - 1 pair with singing male + 2 singing males. ; Blackcap - 3 - 1 pair, singing male, seen entering and exiting possible nest site + another singing male. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing. ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - calling ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - pair ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Moorhen - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 2 ; 321 - 1 - over