Sightings Archive

Totley: Lapwing - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Skylark - 3 - Singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Siskin - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - Singing ; Curlew - 1 - Calling

Totley Bents: Red Kite - 1 - circling at 11:41, gaining height

Unstone: Swallow - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Wadsley Common garden: 324 - 1 - a different garden first-bank vole we think.

Wentworth Park: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 - 1 SK4096; 1 SK4097, both singing ; Little Owl - 1 - sat by nestbox ; Kestrel - 1 - male, sat by traditional nest site in partially dead Ash ; Swallow - 6 - inc 4 sat in dead tree in Deer Park ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Rook - 17 - feeding (birds from Wentworth village rookery) ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - 1 singing

Wentworth Park; Dog Kennel Pond: Mallard - 6+ - + 2 juvs ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 4m; 2f ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 4+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Black-headed Gull - 5

Wentworth Park; Greasbrough Dam: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Mallard - 52 ; Coot - 9+ - #NAME? ; Moorhen - 6+ - + brood of 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 - inc bird at nest ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing to N ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantn: Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling ; Stock Dove - 3 - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 2 - calling ; Jay - 1

Wentworth Park; Morley Plantation: Grey Heron - 2 - adults in treetops but no other evidence of breeding ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Wentworth Park; Morley Pond: Tufted Duck - 8 - 3prs + 2m ; Mallard - 10+ - + 10 juvs (broods of 3, 3 & 4) ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - inc pair at nest ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult ; Coot - 4+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - in adjacent field ; House Martin - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

West Handley: Swallow - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Wharncliffe Chase (south) + woodland fringe: Willow Warbler - 10 singing ; Blackcap - 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 4 singing ; Lapwing - 5 - Pairs still territorial but chances of breeding success slim due to management of sheep on the land. ; Linnet - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 2 males ; Wheatear - 12 - Semi-abundant! ; Meadow Pipit - 30+ - Assumed several active nests ; Skylark - 10+ - Assumed several active nests, still singing at dusk ; Cuckoo - 1 - Limited calls towards dusk ; Curlew - 1

Agden Rocher: Cuckoo - 2 - 1 calling from top of rocher , other calling from trees below at the same time.

Blacka Hill: Cuckoo - 1 - heard calling

Catcliffe Flash: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Female on nest, male stealing nesting material from nearby Coot's nest ; Coot - 2+ - each on a nest ; Mallard - 5+ - Female with 4 ducklings ; Tufted Duck - 12 ; Pochard - 5 ; Gadwall - 6+ ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Clod Hall Moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling this morning

Coombs Dale: Redstart - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - males on small pond ; Wheatear - 2