Sightings Archive

R Don, Meadowhall to Brightside Weir: Blue Tit - 2

Ramsley Res: Whinchat - 3 - 3 singing males.

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing males ; Linnet - 2 ; Redstart - 1 - fem ; Blackcap - 1 - m ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 s m ; Stonechat - 4 - Family party m,f and 2 juv

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - f near nest prob carrying yng ; Mute Swan - 18 - most leaving w ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 3pr ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 - regular pair +1-2cy ; Swift - 15 - + ; Swallow - 8 ; House Martin - 7 ; Wren - 13 - 12sing ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Whitethroat - 4 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 1sing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 9 - + inc.fam7+ ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 3sing

Upper Newbold: Yellowhammer - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 1

Agden Rocher: Golden Plover - 2 - in fields above crags ; Lapwing - 2 - one smalll chick

Agden Side: Whitethroat - 4+ - at least 3 singing males ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing ; Little Owl - 1

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 2 ; Redstart - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Treecreeper - 4 - Feeding

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Over Barrett estate, flying East towards Canklow 14.00

Burbage Moor: Whinchat - 6 - 3 pairs ; Stonechat - 6 - 3 pairs ; Ring Ouzel - 3 - 3 males, one feeding young ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1

Burncross, nr Chapeltown: House Sparrow - 10+ - First fledglings in garden ; Siskin - 1 - Over calling

Catcliffe Flash: Canada Goose - 2+ - a pair with (mercifully) just a single small chick ; Gadwall - 7+ ; Tufted Duck - 9 - 7m, 2f ; Cormorant - 3+ - 1 down, 3 over later ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pair still present but no sign of breeding ; Coot - 17+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ - pair feeding young in nest - 14 visits in 15 mins

Cowell Flat: Lapwing - 6 - one small chick ; Snipe - 3

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Mandarin - 6 - males

Green Moor: Tree Sparrow - 1 - First juvenile today, confirmed breeding

Hudson*s Rough: 319 - 1 - E @ 10:45 ; Woodpigeon - 3+ - singing ; Tawny Owl - 1+ - Adult flew in,responding to calls of juv(s). ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ ; Wren - 2+ - singing ; Robin - 3+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - calls ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1+ - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1+ - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Keppels Field: Skylark - 1 - singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing @ 18:35 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing from behind back gardens. ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Longshaw: Redstart - 2 - male singing on high,+ female ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - pr, male vocal ; Blackcap - 2 - males, contesting territory ; Swallow - 2 - on lodge ; Mandarin - 1 - male on pond ; Mallard - 7 - inc f with 4 well grown juvs on pond

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Lapwing - 5 - Pair with three chicks