Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing. ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2+ - Nest with chicks in wall. ; Wren - 2

Herdings Park: Starling - 10 - all adults collect food then flying off ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - collecting food.

Hollinsend park: Pied Wagtail - 4 - 2 adults feeding 2 juvs on bowling green ; Swift - 2 ; Starling - c40 - mostly juvenile birds with some adults

Kimberworth Park: Swift - 8 - low over roof tops between Shearman Avenue and Roughwood Road at 20:55.

Manor Fields Park: Reed Bunting - 2 - a pair in Reedbed 15:10. ; Mallard - 3 - 1 weil grown young bird + 2 drakes ; Moorhen - 6+ - 3+chicks 3 adults ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - c3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 7 - 4 singing males ; Swift - 6 - Feeding overhead. ; Goldfinch - c8 - inc 1st juv seen.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mallard - 22 - all but one drakes ; Black-headed Gull - 14 ; Mute Swan - 48 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - both 3cy ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Pit-house West: Garden Warbler - 3

R Don, Eastwood: Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing; 1 feeding on lawn of Eastwood Lockhouse

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Greenfinch - 1 - singing from conifers rear of customer service centre ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Starling - 20-25 - inc juvs, on playing field ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - on playing field ; Linnet - 1 - on playing field

Redmires Bottom Res: Oystercatcher - 2+ - 2 adults with 1 chick

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 1 - male on Top Res ; Oystercatcher - 3 - 2 ads with week old chick on Bottom Res ; Curlew - 6 ; Herring Gull - 8 - on Middle Res ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ads with Herring Gulls ; Whinchat - 1 - male singing in Fairthorn Clough ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - 3 pairs ; Swallow - 2 - appeared to fly out of dilapidated filter tanks - potential new breeding site

Rotherham Centre; Don Canal: Sand Martin - 8 - feeding over; birds entering 2-3 holes in steel pilings by canal, c1m above water ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mallard - 1 - duck

Sheffield Springs Academy: Starling - c100 - feeding on SSA ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults on SSA field

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - c8 - Calling over farm off London Road 20.00 ; Swift - 2

Woodhouse: Kestrel - 1 - visiting nest box in tree

Allas Triangle Plantation: Woodcock - 1 - roding

Baslow: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard from observers house early morning

Broadhead Clough: Cuckoo - 1 - calling

Brooks Bank Farm top field: Curlew - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - 1 m + 1 f ; Grey Heron - 1 - may be attracted to this site by the presence of frogs ; Kestrel - 1 - male, briefly landed ; Lapwing - 2 - one displaying, the other on probable nest site

Canyards: Red Kite - 2

Crowden Clough: Ring Ouzel - 2 - 1 calling plus another

Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 2 - Male and female ; Linnet - 1 - In fields

Derwent Dam: Kestrel - 3 - 3 mature juveniles in nest box on Derwent Dam.

Featherbed Moss: Golden Plover - 6 - territories across to Harden trig point including at least one adult carrying food ; Curlew - 2 - pair holding territory ; Dunlin - 1 - male displaying and alarming in suitable breeding habitat ; Oystercatcher - 1 - calling ; Red Grouse - 21 - inc 2 pairs with 2 & 7 young

Firsby Res: Mallard - 10+ - Inc 2 groups of ducklings of different ages. ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Sluice. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Stream ; Swift - 3 ; House Martin - 3 - Around traditional nest site on cottage. ; Blackcap - 4 - Singing. ; Reed Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 2

Fulwood garden: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - on feeders briefly this morning

Greystones: Goldfinch - 4 - 1 Juvenile in observer's garden - 1st of year

Hangingwater garden: Blue Tit - 0 - nest failed ; Wren - 0 - nest abandoned ; Coal Tit - 1 - juv dead after hitting window

High Green: Greenfinch - 1 ; Swift - 2

Hingcliff Common: Curlew - 2 - pair holding territory ; Golden Plover - 2 - pair holding territory

Kimberworth: Bullfinch - 2 - Male and female on garden sunflower hearts feeder