Sightings Archive

Sunday 7th May 2017

• Catcliffe Flash: Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Tufted Duck - 2prs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, over ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Mallard - 12 ; Goosander - 3 - probably all drakes, S ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Swallow - 27+ - N ; House Martin - 6 - N ; Swift - 86+ - N ; Sand Martin - 4 - N ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - female ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing male
• Centenary Riverside: Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing male on river ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing males ; Canada Goose - 1 - a second bird probably 'sitting' somewhere ; Whitethroat - 4 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing males ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Mallard - 9+ - 4m; 2f on reserve + 2m; 1f + 1juv on river ; Gadwall - 1 - drake ; Reed Bunting - 1pr ; Moorhen - 2+ - juvs ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing from Buddleias by river ; Jackdaw - 11 - over to N
• Curbar Edge: Whitethroat - 1 - Near Car park(photo) also Linnet - 3+ ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1
• Damflask Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - asleep near overflow ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1
• Deepcar: Cuckoo - 1 - singing on Stocksbridge Golf Course ; Lapwing - 2+ - two adults with a chick in field off Hollin Busk Lane
• Eyam Moor: Cuckoo - 1 ; Linnet - 2 - a pair
• Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 - Pair. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair arrived @ 19.45. ; Swallow - 30+ - @ 20.00. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing at waters edge. ; Lapwing - 1 - Single over.p ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - In sluice. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by Blackbirds and LT Tits. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over path. ; 319 - 1 - Soaring over farmland. ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Still singing from stream. ; Blackcap - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male.
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1
• Holmes Lock, Rotherham: Greenfinch - 2 - Calling 06.55 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair calling
• Ickles, Rotherham: Blackcap - 3 - Singing between Ickles Lock and NYS
• Malin Bridge: Sand Martin - 3 - Flitting about under arches of bridge ; Jay - 1 - In undergrowth by river
• Manor Fields Park: Whitethroat - 3 ; Blackcap - 1 - male - singing ; Swift - 20 ; Willow Warbler - 2
• Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 1 - not common here ; Shelduck - 3 ; Curlew - 2 ; Swift - 1 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 9 ; Garden Warbler - 5 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Redstart - 1 ; Wheatear - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Fieldfare - 1 - Heard only ; Shelduck - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Curlew - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 17 ; Arctic Tern - 3 - circled for less than 5 minutes and left high. ; Sedge Warbler - 4 - 1 on main lagoon and at least 3 at Cavendish Mill ; Blackcap - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 3 - 1 by main lagoon and 2 at Cavendish Mill ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Redstart - 2
• Middlewood: Swift - 1 - Back on usual breeding site on and quickly discovered that my builder left an open chimney shaft in the attic! Released successfully.
• Moscar: Ring Ouzel - 1 - fem feeding in sheep field by gas terminal ; Wheatear - 1 - fem ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing
• Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 5 ; Black Tern - 5 - Joined Arctic Terns at 06:15 then all headed high north ; Dunlin - 2 ; Whimbrel - 1 - On big lake at 07:40