Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 5+ - 3 territories, 2 pairs, females incubating ; Blue Tit - 60+ - 29 pairs in boxes and holes, fledged juveniles below crags ; Great Tit - 30+ - 15 nests, 13 in boxes ; Cuckoo - 1

White Lee Moor: Red Kite - 1 - at 15:10, being mobbed by curlews, then flew north.

Whiteley Woods: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1? - frequent drumming over past few days

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 4+ ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Redstart - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1

Barbrook Plantation: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Redstart - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard only

Barbrook Valley: Whinchat - 1

Blacka Moor: Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Stonechat - 1 - Male ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - 1 singing and displaying. ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting on moor ; Garden Warbler - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - Singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - Pair

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 2 - 2 in the air together at 1130

Hangingwater garden: Jay - 1+ - visiting fat-balls regularly over past week and taking towards Whiteley Woods

Hathersage: Swift - 6+

Leash Fen: Lesser Redpoll - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1

Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 1 - Still present ; 320 - 2 - Males ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing

Norton Lees: Blue Tit - 1 juv - 1 tiny Blue Tit on a plant pot outside our back door - parent feeding it

Padley Gorge: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing male ; Cuckoo - 2 - Male flying East and calling, mobbed by 2 Meadow Pipits. Second male calling in the distance. ; Common Buzzard - 2 - Courtship display

R Don, Attercliffe: Kingfisher - 3 - at least 2 fledged juvs, upstream of East Coast Road bridge.

Ramsley Moor: Whinchat - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2+ - resident pair now with 9 cygnets

Stanage Edge, below: Meadow Pipit - 1 - Showing well on wall

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 37 - inc.2ad4y ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Scaup - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 10 - 7m3f ; 319 - 2 - soar.in s ; Herring Gull - 1 - past e ; Swift - 2 ; Wren - 13 - sing +a pair taking food to nest ; Blackbird - 20 - 15sing ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Whitethroat - 9 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 4 - +inc 2sing ; Willow Warbler - 6 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 7 - sing ; Magpie - 13 - ads. ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1m+1call. ; Great Tit - 7 - #NAME?

Wadsley Common garden: Long-tailed Tit - 6 - Family party.

Whirlow: Sparrowhawk - 1

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Common Buzzard - 1 - S/SE @ 1638hrs

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Swift - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - heard 0320

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 ; Grey Heron - 4 ; Gadwall - 12+ ; Coot - 15+ - 15 ads + 2 broods (7,2) ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Red-eared Terrapin - at least one (the smaller of the usual two) surviving for another year

Crowhole: Blackcap - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - inc. juvenile just fledged ; Swallow - 4+ ; Whitethroat - 1

Don Canal, Rotherham Road to Eastwood Lock: Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male

Fitzwilliam Canal, Parkgate: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Kingfisher - 1

Middleton Moor: 320 - 2 - Males ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing in phragmites

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 6 - at 3 different sites, 5 males.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 43 - inc 11 2cy ; Tufted Duck - 1 - drake ; Mallard - 37 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males

R Don, Carbrook: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing