Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Chase + woodland fringe: Redstart - 2 - Males singing in close proximity ; Stock Dove - 6 - Min 3 territories in area ; Whitethroat - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 7 - 5 males, 2 females ; Cuckoo - 1 - Ranging across Chase and woodland ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Siskin - 1 - Display flight ; Swallow - 3 - On breeding territory at Hallfield Head Farm ; Raven - 3 - One carrying food to presumed nest ; Lapwing - 10+ - Very territorial chasing crows away etc ; Wheatear - 3 - Around suitable nest site area ; Moorhen - 1 - Seen near flash in centre of Chase - not seen here before ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 30+

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 3 ; Wood Warbler - 1

Agden Side: Whitethroat - 2 - both singing. ; Tree Pipit - 1

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 2 - 100m below new gate, 500m below Piper Gate ; Tawny Owl - 1

Blacka Plantation: Blackcap - 4

Bole Hill, Treeton: Yellowhammer - 2

Bradfield: Dipper - 1 - In stream behind cricket pavilion.

Cinder Bridge Field; The Tops: Lapwing - 13 - on spring-sown arable fields, inc 1 sitting & 2 seeing-off crow ; Yellowhammer - 2 - males ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Cowell Flat: Wheatear - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - food carrying. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing males. ; Little Owl - 1

Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 2

Ecclesall: Lesser Redpoll - 1 - flew NE calling mid-afternoon

Grange Park, Brown Spring, Level 1: Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing

Grange Park, Brown Spring, Level 2: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 2+ - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing

Grange Park, Far Bank: Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing

Grange Park, Gallery Bottom: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - calls including rattle call, probable pair ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; 319 - 1 - calls. possibly same bird over Grange Lane @09:45

Grange Park,Brick Kiln Plantation: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Grange Park,Upper Kennel Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 - calls @ 09:40 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Greystones: Oystercatcher - 1 - flew NE calling after dark at 23:40 hrs

Longshaw: Cuckoo - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Another shot

Middlewood: House Martin - 1 - 1st one back at traditional site on Overton Road ; Swift - 2 - 1st birds back over Ganton Road ; House Martin - 2

Nether Haugh: Lapwing - 2 - in field to E

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 6 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Blackcap - 4 - 2 singing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - 4 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 4 - 3 singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - breeding confirmed - discarded eggshells ; Woodpigeon - breeding probable - inc bird carrying nest material