Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Chase: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Skylark - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Agden Res: Whooper Swan - 30 - at 10:00, 24 adults, 6 juvs. ; Whooper Swan - 30 - still present at 14.20hrs ; Whooper Swan - 30 - still present at 5pm ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - 1 metal ringed

Agden Rocher: Meadow Pipit - c100 - in fields under Rocher. ; Treecreeper - 2 - in hawthorn scrub.

Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 2 - bird seen earlier joined by second. Both circled up & drifted off N ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Gadwall - 3prs ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; 320 - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Canada Goose - 01-Feb - behaviour suggesting bird on concealed nest nearby

Aldwarke; Aldwarke Lane: Raven - 1 - low to W @ 0619hrs

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Blackburn Meadows NR: Jay - 1 ; Canada Goose - 1 - Sitting on nest in reeds ; Gadwall - 1 - Pecking at a dry section of the weir near Jordan lock. ; 319 - 2 - Flying over several times ; 324 - 1 - Orange tip butterfly on the main path around the reserve

Canklow: Blackcap - 3 - Singing from Ickles roundabout too Canklow bridge 08.50 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing Canklow bridge 9.00

Canklow Woods: Nuthatch - 1 - Alarm calling near possible nest hole 06.45 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; 319 - 1 - Disturbed by me, top end of woods, then over. ; Blackcap - 1 - Song near Boston Castle. ; Jay - 4

Carhouse Meadows/Morehall: Mallard - 7 - one white female with 6 ducklings four yellow and 2 normal mallard colour ; Pheasant - 6 ; 319 - 3 - over and around meadows and res. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Woodpigeon - 6 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling and flying to trees ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming from tree on back path at side of res. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 03-Apr ; Blackbird - 4/5+ ; Chiffchaff - 03-Apr - all singing ; Wren - 2 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 8+ ; Carrion Crow - 04-May ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 11 ; Greenfinch - 2

Catcliffe Flash: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Sand Martin - 9+ ; Black-headed Gull - 6+ ; Pochard - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 13 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 3 - 1 pair ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing 8.00 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Wren - 03-Apr - singing ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Dunnock - 4

Cholera Monument Grounds: Blackcap - 1 - singing

Coombs Dale: Blackcap - 1 - male singing

Cowell Flat: Brambling - 1 - over calling

Dale Dike Res: Whooper Swan - 24 - at 13:15

Dalton: Goosander - 4 - 2m, 2f over to N ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flushed from Dalton Brook ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Rook - 08-Sep - attended nests on pylons

Ecclesfield: 319 - 1 - 'Rollercoasting' display and calling above Trans-Pennine Trail. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 3 adults trying to feed on something on top of Morrison's petrol station roof.

Endcliffe Park: Tawny Owl - 2 - Pair calling to each other in trees by upper pond, one flying across path at 02:55 ; Mandarin - 2 - Both males ; Grey Heron - 1 - On lower pool ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Fatty Boyns Ponds: Jay - 1 - giving mewing Buzzard-like calls ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Pheasant - 3 - crowing ; Redwing - 2 ; Linnet - 2