Sightings Archive

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Kestrel - 1 - female ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Swift - 4 - over

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing from large gardens with conifers ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Ranmoor: 319 - 1

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 2 - singles E @ 1335 & 1353hrs

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Tawny Owl - 2 - flushed from low canopy by mobbing Blackbirds; ages unknown

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - inc 3 singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 9 - Including 2 juveniles in field ; Golden Plover - 2 ; Curlew - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Redshank - 1 - Same field as lapwing chicks

Redmires Res: Black-tailed Godwit - 1

Rocher Head Farm: Little Owl - 1 - on fence post near Sick Brook

Rocher Wood: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male singing in belt of trees in pasture to south of wood

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1

Wadsley: Swift - 4

Wadsley Common garden: Bullfinch - 3 - Pair and 1 juvenile.

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantation: Blackcap - 3+ - inc 2 singing ; Stock Dove - 3 - 2 singing; 1 feeding in adjacent field ; Swallow - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 12+ - 10+ males singing, 2 females ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing near dam pond ; Blackcap - 8 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 22 - singing

Agden Side: Woodcock - 3 - Roding. ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Tawny Owl - 3

Arbourthorne: Moorhen - 5+ - family group still on pond. ; Mallard - 5 - 4 males. ; Swift - 6 - 2 over pond 4 over estate houses. ; Starling - 50+ - flock spread over nearby fields and by pond Adults+Juvs. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - single adult over pond briefly. ; Carrion Crow - c20 - on rooftops on Arbourthorne Rd early 06:15

Bolsterstone: Willow Warbler - 5 - Singing ; House Sparrow - 3+ - 2 Juveniles begging to be fed ; Starling - 40+ - 70% Juveniles ; Swallow - 6 ; Curlew - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 2 - 1 eating prey in field, the other mobbed by Curlew ; Skylark - 6 - Singing ; Meadow Pipit - 7 ; Linnet - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Lapwing - 2

Bramley Dale: Garden Warbler - 1

Catcliffe: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Male singing

Cliff College Calver: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - by river to W

Coumes Wood: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male, singing. ; Spotted Flycatcher - Pair - Singing.

Greystones: Swift - 5 - Over observer's garden ; Blackbird - 4 - 1 Juvenile

High Green: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting slowly northwards around noon ; 319 - 2 ; Swift - 4

Hordron Edge: Cuckoo - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 1

Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 1 - adult at entrance to nest site. ; Great Tit - 2+ - pair feeding young in garden nest box. ; Blue Tit - 4+ - 2 nest boxes with adults feeding young. ; Starling - 6+ - 2 adults 4 juvs to garden feeder. ; Robin - 2+ - inc 1st juv bird in garden. ; Swift - 4 - screaming over observers garden.

Longstone Edge: Redstart - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Red Kite - 1 - heading towards Calver ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 - fem ; Raven - 1

Longstone Moor: House Martin - 2 - gathering mud in quarry puddles

Lumb Bush: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male singing

Manor Fields Park: Moorhen - 6 - 2 adults 4 recently fledged young on top pond c7am. ; Mallard - 4 - a pair + 1well grown juv. +1male. ; Swift - 8 - feeding over park. ; Robin - 3+ - inc 2 recently fledged juv birds ; Willow Warbler - 2 - still singing ; Whitethroat - 2+ - at least 1 pair. ; Song Thrush - 4 - 2 pairs. ; Great Tit - 6+ - 1 family party at least 4 recently fledged young.

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 1 ; Lapwing - c12 - plus one small chick