Sightings Archive

Catcliffe Flash: Gadwall - 7+ ; Tufted Duck - 21+ ; Coot - 10+ - at least 3 occupied nests ; Black-headed Gull - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - a pair

Cowell Flat: Snipe - 5 - chipping and drumming overhead

Crosspool: Tawny Owl - 1 - Usual roosting site

Firsby Res: Mallard - 4 - 2 males and 2 new born ducklings no sign of mother. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Flew from Dam wall. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Along stream. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Fieldfare - 1 - Call only. ; Lesser Redpoll - 8 - Cottage hedge. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing Males. ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 2

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 7 - Minimum 4m and 3f around feeders ; Brambling - 6 - still at feeders

Langsett Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Curlew - 4 ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - singing, possibly 3

Leash Fen: Yellowhammer - 4 ; Skylark - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Linnet - 6+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Lapwing - 04-May

Malin Bridge: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing in gardens ; Water Rail - 1 - nocmig 02:19 4 calls as it passed over

Meersbrook Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 1 ; 320 - 14

Oughtibridge: Carrion Crow - 1 - stalking and catching frogs from observers garden pond.

R Don, Effingham St: Canada Goose - 2 - usual pair, female with nest in same spot as last year, 7 eggs initially uncovered but being incubated shortly after.

Ramsley Res: Brambling - 2 - calling males ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Brambling - 4 - 3 m, 1 f, all showing v. well ; Lesser Redpoll - 10+ ; Stonechat - 04-May ; Siskin - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; 319 - 1

Redmires conduit: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Lapwing - 11 ; 319 - 4+ ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Skylark - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Wren - 3

Rivelin Valley: Brambling - 1 - In observers garden ; Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing briefly in observers garden then flew toward Rivelin

Silverwood Lagoon: Stonechat - 1 - male in gorse at southern end, giving occasional snatch of song ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - 'yaffling' in The Close ; Sand Martin - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 10 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - singing ; Blackcap - 8 - singing

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Swallow - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1

Wentworth Park: 319 - 1 - in tree top at Temple Hill Plantation.

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Cuckoo - 1 - Calling ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Whinchat - 1 - Male

Agden Rocher: Redstart - 1 - Male in hawthorn hedge. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - all singing around site.

Barley Hall: 319 - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 - all singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Wren - 3 ; Swallow - 1

Bassingthorpe Spring: Robin - 2 - singing ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Great Tit - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Birley Edge: Willow Warbler - 1 - First here this spring. ; Jay - 4 - 2 pairs squabbling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing