Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 8 - 5m3f ; 319 - 1 - n ; Kestrel - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - copulating ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Swift - 40+ ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 - a pr ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Upper Padley: Tree Pipit - 1 - singing/display ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 2

Upper Padley/Longshaw: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting in general area

Barbrook Plantation: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - singing males ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - attending to an almost complete nest

Barbrook Valley: Raven - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - Male alarming ; Whinchat - 3 - A pair plus another singing male

Blackburn Meadows NR: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Brownhills Lane: Tawny Owl - 1 - hunting over open fields.

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; 319 - 1 - On ground in thick early morning mist. ; Pheasant - 1 - Female ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Alarm calling ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing from sluice reed bed early morning. ; Coot - 8+ - Inc pair with 4 young. ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 8 - Pair with 2 well grown young from 13 + 4 Males. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 - Over farmland. ; 319 - 2 - Circling very high. ; Kestrel - 1 - Perched on telegraph pole in set aside field. ; Swallow - 5 ; Swift - 3 - Screaming through low site. ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - Family party in sheep paddock. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Male singing from cottage hedge. Nest with sitting Female and 4 eggs predated. ; Blackbird - 5+ - Nest with chicks also sitting Female on eggs at side of path. At least 3 nests with eggs predated including one on ground at side of small Res. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - In full song edge of reed bed. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Calling from same reed bed as SW.

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 6 - 5m,1f

Froggatt Bridge: Mandarin - 2 - 2 females with broods of 4 & 5 ; Canada Goose - 2 - 2 adults with 5 young

Holmesfield: Little Owl - 1

Lawrence Field: Stonechat - 1 - Male catching insects in mid-air. ; Meadow Pipit - 10

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 5 ; Oystercatcher - 2

Padley Gorge: Tree Pipit - 3 ; Redstart - 5 - 5 singing males-3 on top, 2 near rough path in valley. ; Pied Flycatcher - 4 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - Pair carrying nesting material. ; Dipper - 2 - pair making frequent feeding visits to nest site ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Redstart - 3+ ; Spotted Flycatcher - 3+ ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 10+ ; Mandarin - 2 ; Curlew - 2 - flying ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Mistle Thrush - 5 - inc juv being fed ; Bullfinch - 2 - pr

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - small chicks visible in nest, brooded by female. ; Moorhen - 1+ - adult on nest with 2+ small chicks 4ft up in a Willow. Also the Yellow-bellied Slider/Terrapin for it's 3rd summer basking on it's favourite rocks.

R Don, Meadowhall to Brightside Weir: Wren - 8 - singing ; Mallard - 10+ - incl. f + 4 chicks ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Blackbird - 8 - incl 2 prs ; Magpie - 6 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Greenfinch - 5+ ; Sand Martin - 30+ - at least 14 holes occupied in Gripple box ; Sand Martin - 30+ - many collecting dried moss from waste land near Gripple ; Garden Warbler - 1 - challenging nearby Song Thrush in duet. (Record shot) ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; 321 - 1 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - immature ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - m ; Robin - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; 319 - 1 - in waste ground near Gripple. (Record shot) ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing