Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Linnet - 12+ - at least six pairs bred around pit top ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Little Grebe - 3prs ; Mute Swan - 2 - resident pair ; Pheasant - 8+ - several males calling early morning ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Canada Goose - 36 - north ; House Martin - 11 ; Swift - 3

Smithy Wood: 319 - 1 - Seen carrying prey from a treetop pursued by Carrion Crow

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mute Swan - 20 - inc.pr with 6y ; Canada Goose - 54 - inc.36 past ne ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 1f ; 319 - 3 - soar.1n2s ; Lapwing - 8 - in fields ; Moorhen - 5 - 1ad 4y ; Swift - 50 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - on dam ; Blackcap - 3 ; Reed Warbler - 3 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring high over

Thrybergh Tip: Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Mallard - 11 ; Gadwall - 17+ - 7prs + 2 + 1f with brood of 8 ; Mute Swan - 1pr - no attempt to re-lay ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 7 - very poor year for waterbirds here so far ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - anxiety calls ; Linnet - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Swift - c30 - feeding over ; Jay - 1 ; Canada Goose - 18 - NE, then N @ 0729hrs ; Chiffchaff - 12+ - 5 singing + 7+ inc juvs ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Whitethroat - 10+ - inc 5 singing + 5, with lots of scolding/anxiety calls, + brood of 3+ ; Wren - breeding confirmed - many family parties ; Blue Tit - breeding confirmed - many family parties ; Great Tit - breeding confirmed - many family parties ; Long-tailed Tit - breeding confirmed ; Robin - breeding confirmed ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Reed Warbler - 0 - conspicuous by their apparent absence; none seen or heard!?

Thrybergh; Bluebell Wood: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing

Ulleu brook bog: Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing males ; Whitethroat - 3+ - Singing males

Ulley: Yellow Wagtail - 2 - Pair on Guithwaite Common Lane 11.15 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - Calling ; Whitethroat - 04-May - Singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing

Waverley: Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing males ; Whitethroat - 4+ - Pair feeding young .

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 29+ - 5 pairs plus 1 singing male. Pairs feeding juvs in nest boxes ; Tree Pipit - 4+ - 2 adults plus 2 recently fledged juvs below Wharncliffe Craggs

Wyming Brook: Woodcock - 2+ - Flying over moorland fringe from 21:30. Minimum of 2 birds but probably more. ; Wood Warbler - 3 - singing - including one carrying food to nest in bracken-mossy area at base of tree stump

Beauchief Golf Course: 319 - 3 - Circling together over woods ; Kestrel - Pair - Mobbing Buzzards and distress calling, probable nest nearby ; Swift - c30 - Feeding 17.00, later seen over Millhouses Park

Brinsworth: Blackcap - 1 - singing junction of Whitehill Lane 11.00 ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Canklow: Blackcap - 8 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 2 - river, one calling

Centenary Riverside: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting ; Blackcap - 4 - 3 males singing, 1 female ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing and alarm can when Kestrel over. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Brief song ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over

Derwent Res: Wood Warbler - 2+ - Trilling birds at sites north, and south of Ouzelden clough.

Green Moor: Bullfinch - 4 - Confirmed breeding with two adults and two fledglings ; Yellowhammer - 4 - two adults and two fledglings ; Willow Warbler - 4 - adult and three young ; Greenfinch - 8+ - juveniles present ; Siskin - 3+ - young fledglings present ; Goldfinch - 6+ - juveniles present

Greystones: Great Tit - 2 - Juveniles in observer's garden

Hangingwater garden: Blue Tit - 6+ - family being fed