Sightings Archive

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Wren - breeding confirmed - family party ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Sparrowhawk - 1 - calling from mature Hawthorns ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Stocksbridge/Stonemoor: Skylark - 3 - foraging on rough pasture and singing in flight ; Meadow Pipit - 06-Jul ; Linnet - 2 ; Wheatear - 1 - male on wall near trig point ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - very scarce up here ; Swallow - 2 - very few at present ; Stonechat - 1 - male very noisy from birch at side of path nest was probably quite close ; Pheasant - 2 ; Red Grouse - 1

Thorpe Hesley, Pit Site: 319 - 2 - together circling high over site @ 12:25 ; Woodpigeon - 2+ ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; House Sparrow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 5 ; Cuckoo - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 1 - Above Redicar clough ; Reed Bunting - 1 - 1f In Redicar clough ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - 1m

Agden Rocher: Tawny Owl - 02-Mar - 2 or 3 juveniles heard calling in trees alongside sick brook.

Barbrook Plantation: Tawny Owl - 1+ - adult plus a downy young bird clambering up a treetrunk ; Pied Flycatcher - 4+ - 2 prs taking food into nest boxes ; Redstart - 4 - 2 prs taking food to nests ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - a fledged bird ; Robin - 1+ - carrying food ; Wren - 1+ - carrying food

Bingham Park: Grey Wagtail - 1 - With food ; Blue Tit - 1 - entering & leaving nest in tree ; Robin - 1

Endcliffe Park: Blackcap - 1 - male singing near lower lake at 07:35

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 7 - 5 Ducklings ; Jay - 1 - Caught & killed something

Greystones garden: Blackbird - 5 - 1 Juvenile ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Swift - 2 - Over ; Great Tit - 2 - Juveniles in observer's garden

Kimberworth Park: Swift - c9 - Low over Grey Hill

Meadowhall: Red-legged Partridge - 1 - 1 on waste ground next to Next car park ; Skylark - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Sand Martin - 2

Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 4 - Singing

Norton Lees - observer’s garden: Jay - 1 - visiting regularly

R Sheaf, Heeley - Broadfield Road: Moorhen - 2 - 1 adult, 1 well-grown chick

Scholes Coppice: Tawny Owl - 1 - juvenile? calling regularly, exposed on branch high in canopy, mobbed by c.7 Magpies

Walkley garden: Starling - 40+ - largest daily number this week.

West Nab: Little Owl - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - the " cuckwoo " calling bird now in the west nab area.

Whinfell Quarry Gardens: 321 - 1 - over ; Bullfinch - 2 - a pair

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1

Canklow Woods: Red Kite - 1 - slowly north 1450 to 1453

Endcliffe Park: Mandarin - 6 - female + 5 young on upper lake

Handsworth garden: Swift - 7 - Over,low in downpour

High Bradfield: Yellowhammer - 2 - both singing males. ; Lapwing - 2 - adult feeding with large juvenile.

Meadowhall: Oystercatcher - 1 - over calling

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 2 - churring males at one site

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - over briefly, hanging in breeze @ 1505hrs

Redmires conduit: Snipe - 1

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 2 - adult female with 1 duckling on river downstream of Hollins Lane bridge.

Woodall Common: Red Kite - 1

Burbage Rocks: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Siskin - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 6 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Dukes Road: Osprey - 1 - W over Hurkling Stones, heading towards Derwentdale 17:30

Greystones garden: Long-tailed Tit - 3 - 3 juveniles in observer's garden ; Starling - 8 - 4 juveniles in observer's garden, one caught & killed by Fox ; House Sparrow - 10 - 4 juveniles ; Dunnock - 2 - 1 juveniles ; Coal Tit - 3 - 2 juveniles ; Bullfinch - 2