Sightings Archive

Treeton Dyke: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - one adult feeding medium sized juv

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls from scrub

Attercliffe: Herring Gull - c20 - all immatures ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c25 - 3 adults, one bird with blue dyed underparts Warren Street.

Kimberworth: Blue Tit - 3 - 2 juveniles on fastball feeder being by parent. ; Robin - 1 - Juvenile on garden fence. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Foraging in garden - frightened off by male blackbird. ; 324 - 1 - Hedgehog - foraging in the garden in the day for the second day running. Appeared healthy

Lawrence Field: Stonechat - 3 ; Cuckoo - 1 - bubbling female. ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing

Oughtibridge: Red Kite - 1 - drifting slowly up the Don valley @ 16.15.

Padley Gorge: Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Pied Flycatcher - 4 - two pairs.

Redmires Middle Res: 324 - 2 - Stoat. At least 2 in burrow in rhododendron bush roots near woods ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 2

Redmires Top Res: Little Grebe - 1

Unstone: 319 - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - 1 seen, several calling between Unstone & Summerley

Waverley Estate: Lapwing - 9 - 4 adults and 5 well grown chicks ; Ringed Plover - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - pair near nest box ; Tree Pipit - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Wharncliffe Side: Willow Tit - 1 - calling in scrub next to Ewden Beck

Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 2 - pair alarming

White Lee Moor: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting over moorland ; Tawny Owl - 1 - flew out of woods towards Peat Pits

Agden Rocher: Redstart - 3 - singing males ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Little Owl - 1

Bamford Edge: Cuckoo - 1 - distant singing breifly ; Ring Ouzel - 3 ; Linnet - 6+ - Family party ; Stonechat - 4+ - Male feeding 3 + recently fledged young ; House Martin - 4 - Gathering soil/mud

Brinsworth: Coal Tit - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Low over river heading towards Rotherham

Cinder Bridge Field: Swift - c30 - feeding over

Clod Hall Moor: Cuckoo - 1 ; Stonechat - 2+ - 2 ads with 2 recently fledged young

Dale Dyke: Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mandarin - 3 - females with broods of 4,2 and 4. ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Dore: Great Tit - 5 - brood of 5 juvs fledged from garden nest box at 09:00

Dukes Road: Red Kite - 2 - circling over towards top of Abbey Brook, one seen later over Hollingdale. ; Red Kite - 2 - Hunting over moorland

Firsby Res: Mallard - 1 - Female. ; Black-headed Gull - 3 ; Lapwing - 1 - Fully grown juv. ; Grey Heron - 2 - Arrived together calling. ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - Adult feeding 2 juvs ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Circling high over. ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Swift - 4+ ; Skylark - 3+ - Singing. ; Swallow - 2+ - Near houses. ; House Martin - 1 - Over cottage. ; Reed Bunting - 3+ - All singing. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male carrying food. ; Linnet - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 20+ ; Chaffinch - 10+ - Majority singing Males. ; Blackbird - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - Calling. ; Whitethroat - 3+ ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male.

Grange Park, Brick Kiln Plantation: 319 - 3 - together. ; Lapwing - 1 - over E edge of wood calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1+

Markham Vale: Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 3 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 - multiple family parties ; Willow Tit - 1 - Singing

moorland fringe: Nightjar - 11 - 10 churring males at 6 sites.

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 7 - 5 singing ; Lapwing - 1 - over, calling anxiously