Sightings Archive

Roundwood Golf course: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Roundwood Ponds: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 04-May - 3 singing + 2 females ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Moorhen - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 1 - duck ; Reed Warbler - 5+ - lots of activity/song from reedbed ; Coot - 2 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Greylag Goose - 17 - 3, joined by 14 from direction of Thrybergh tip ; Grey Heron - 1 - SW ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - inc fledged juvs ; Water Rail - 1 - 'sharming' from reedbed ; Common Buzzard - 3 - over together ; Oystercatcher - 2 - N/NW calling @ 0936hrs

Scholes: Swallow - 10+ - at Red House Farm

Scholes Coppice: Woodpigeon - 3 - singing ; Wren - 4 - singing ; Robin - 6 - singing ; Blackbird - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - 1 singing ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+

Scholes Pond: 319 - 1 - calls ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - calls ; Whitethroat - 1 - calls from brambles ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - calls ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing, W of Scholes Pond ; Skylark - 1 - singing, W of pond

Shepherd Wheel: Moorhen - 2+ - 2 adults + 5 young

Shillito Wood: Little Owl - 1 - near old building at 8:45

Smeltings Farm, Ringinglow: Barn Owl - 1

Tankersley: Red Kite - 1 - one over/just inside the SBSG border at Junction 36, M1

Triangle pond Treeton: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 4

Upper Ox Close Wood: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1+ - calls ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Wentworth: Yellowhammer - 1 - Male off Street Lane. ; Swallow - 2

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 13+ - 7+ males singing, 6 females ; Nuthatch - 10+ ; Tree Pipit - 4 - singing ; Redstart - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 3 - singing ; Treecreeper - 4+ - 2 food carrying to nest ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 22 - singing

Barbrook Plantation: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Redstart - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 ; Stonechat - 03-Apr - one male adult and 2-3 juveniles ; Blackcap - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1

Beauchief Ponds: Moorhen - 1 - with 6 young

Bole Hill Wood, Woodseats: Chiffchaff - 1

Bolehill Flash: Kingfisher - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 2

Broomhead Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - calling Stone Circle

Broomhead Park: Woodcock - 1 - roding ; Tawny Owl - 2+ - chicks calling

Burngreave Cemetery: 319 - 1 - Flying over chased by a crow.

Edale: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling below Back Tor

Firsby Res: Little Grebe - 2+4 - Adults feeding 4 chicks ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Jackdaw - 7 ; Carrion Crow - 10 ; 319 - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2

Graves Park: Treecreeper - 1

Greystones: House Sparrow - 6 - 2 chicks in observer's garden

Hillsborough: Swift - 5 - Screaming around houses, Broughton Rd.

Longstone Edge: Red Kite - 1 - flying just below road at 15:15

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Whitethroat - 1 - Singing male