Sightings Archive

Longshaw Estate: Tree Pipit - 1 - heard from Burbage

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - Singing

Padley Gorge: Treecreeper - 2 - Together ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 - M&F seen together ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 - Carrying food into nest box ; Blue Tit - 2 - Entering nest box ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing

R Don, Blackburn Meadows: Little Egret - 1 - feeding downstream side of weir by Jordans lock at 12:20. Still there at 15:30

Silverwood Lagoon: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; House Martin - c.25 - mostly feeding low over lagoon ; Swift - 10 - with HM

Blackburn Meadows NR: Little Egret - 1 - Flew over west at 11.40

Chatsworth Park: House Martin - 2+ - Visiting probable nest site beneath Paynes Bridge

Dore: Dunnock - 1+ - an adult feeding one newly fledged young in observer’s garden

Ecclesfield Park: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair on stream adj.to "Germanic Mount".

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 5+ - Fledglings - at least three being fed ; House Sparrow - 10+ - At least two family groups ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Greystones: House Sparrow - 8 - 1 Juvenile, 1st of the year in observer's garden

High Green: Swift - 10+ - Much courtship display flights plus visiting nest sites at Burncross Cemetry and Wharncliffe pub.

Langsett Res: Oystercatcher - 3 - Believed to be 2 pairs nesting

Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 adult with two fledglings. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; House Martin - 8 ; Swift - Pair - Courtship flights ; Greylag Goose - 87 - 68 adult, 19 goslings ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Swallow - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 - 2 carrying food to nest ; Curlew - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - Single sub-adults west ; Siskin - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Food carrying to nest ; Tufted Duck - 5 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; 321 - 2

Millhouses: Swift - 3 - Screaming pair and one other. Maximum count so far this month. ; Blue Tit - 5 - Five successfully fledged from garden nest box but from a clutch of only five eggs

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 1 - ad on Top Res ; Moorhen - 1 - ad on Top Res - nest by road no longer occupied ; Greylag Goose - 8 - inc dead adult by roadside ; Canada Goose - 6 - ads with young hidden in long grass ; Redstart - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Siskin - 2 - by Top Res ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - 3 pairs - pair on Top Res alarming by bridge ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - ad flew W ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - drifted west ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing by Top Res ; Linnet - 10 - 5 pairs holding territory on south side of reservoirs ; Kestrel - 2 - single female and later male flew W over Top Res ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling ; Swallow - 8

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 6+ - pair now feeding young, at least two other pairs also present ; Mute Swan - 2+ - pair and 9 cygnets (not 8 as originally counted)

Underbank Res: Whooper Swan - 1 - Western neck ; Grey Heron - 3 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - nesting.pair ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

White Lee Moor (west of): Barn Owl - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling ; Woodcock - 1 - Roding

Ecclesfield Park: Swift - 4 ; House Martin - 4

Fairholmes: Wood Warbler - 1 - singing in Beeches by bus stop

Howden Res: Goosander - 1 - drake ; 320 - 3 - 2m, 1f

Jack Flat: Wood Warbler - 2 - Singing male plus another bird calling whilst feeding ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male, singing and visiting nest hole ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard towards Gardoms Edge

Kimberworth Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling low over Roughwood School/ Crane Road

Leash Fen: Lapwing - 4

Neepsend: Blue Tit - 2 - Active nest in wall of workshop on Neepsend Lane by River Don. ; Sand Martin - 8 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair River Don

Nether Hey: Hobby - 1 - flew over

Pebley Pond: Common Sandpiper - 1

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Sand Martin - 25+ - Stevenson Rd/Hecla Rd. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair ; Blue Tit - 2 - Pair ; Chiffchaff - 1

Redmires Res: Curlew - 8 - in fields ; Oystercatcher - 5 - 2 ads with 3 newly hatched young on Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - on Middle Res

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - singing over wheat crop

Upper Derwentdale: Redstart - 2 - singing males in Larches above Kings Tree ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - in Larches above Kings Tree, 2 territories assumed. ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing

Upper Hey: Whinchat - c3 - singing males, definitely 2 probably 3

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 10+ - 5 pairs in nest boxes

Wire Mill Dam: Tufted Duck - 2 - Pair on dam at 21:15