Sightings Archive

Dog Kennel Pond: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing, S side, W end ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing

Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - High Street at 06:40 ; Swift - 8 - Screaming and chasing near Sycamore Rd/High St junction

Firth Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - Calling

Keppels Field: Kestrel - 3 - at least 2 juvs 'play' hunting

Moorland fringe: Nightjar - 1 - churring and wing-clapping male

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 2+ ; Kestrel - 1+ ; Tufted Duck - 15+

Mount Darnall: Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing males ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing males ; Whitethroat - 3 - sinning males ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Skylark - 2

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 1 - singing

Scholes Paddock: 319 - 1

Stanedge Pole: Mistle Thrush - 10 - Family group ; Cuckoo - 1 - Fully fledged juvenile still being fed by a couple of Mipits ; Red Kite - 1 ; Curlew - 2 - 1 adult and 1 juvenile

Tankersley: Ringed Plover - 1 - Opposite Evra ; Swift - 2

Thrybergh CP: Little Egret - 1

Agden Beck: Goshawk - 1 - 2cy male dropped into valley

Agden Rocher: Hobby - 1 - low over E ; Red Kite - 2 - at least, in general area.

Aldwarke: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing from construction site

Aldwarke; Waddington Way: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - over

Bell Ground, Tankerskey: Willow Warbler - 1 - Brief song ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing with some Nightingale content ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 - Standing on higher concrete intersection calling due to area being flooded ; 320 - 2 - Female/juvenile/ moult plumage ; House Martin - 3 ; Swift - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Brincliffe Edge: Chiffchaff - 1+ - Singing all day for last two days apart from storms

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - at 0400

Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 1 - fem

Ecclesfield: Swift - 6 - High St ; House Martin - 4 - High St

Fitzwilliam Canal, Parkgate: Moorhen - 2 - calling ; Long-tailed Tit - 7+ - in mixed flock ; Chiffchaff - 1 - calling ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - alarming, N end

Fulwood Head: Tree Sparrow - 2 - in hedge by farm

Hallam Moors: Raven - 1 - at High Neb

Hangingwater garden: Bullfinch - 2 - m & f ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - juv - photo through glass

High Green: Swallow - 1 - South ; Swift - 4

Kimberworth Park: 319 - 2 - together calling between Shepherd's Plantation and Roughwood School

Millhouses: Red Kite - 1 - flying over Rex Ave - only my second sighting from the house

Millhouses Park: Mandarin - 4 - Female and three fully grown juvs. ; Moorhen - 1+ - Adult and two recently hatched chicks. First evidence of breeding in the park this year.

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 6 - adults ; Mallard - 15

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 3 - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - c10 - post-breeding flock

Parkgate; Don Canal: Whitethroat - 2 - 1 by Eastwood Lock (SK4494); female scolding (probable nest) on towpath (SK4394) ; Moorhen - 1 - calling ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing; 1 anxious bird with juvs calling nearby ; Blackcap - 1+ - male singing + fledged juvs calling nearby ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing by towpath

Parkgate; Rotherham Road: Pied Wagtail - 1 - on pavement ; Starling - 23 - post-breeding flock on verge, inc c10 engaged in communal 'anting'.

R Don, Eastwood: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 3 - moulting drakes ; Black-headed Gull - 5 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Cormorant - 2 - imm on gantry by river; 1 N/NE

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Magpie - 9 - foraging on playing field ; Herring Gull - 1 - SW ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - female, on playing field ; Swallow - 1 - feeding over playing field ; Swift - 13 - party S/SW

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: House Sparrow - 3 - 2m; 1f in garden

Redmires Res: Greylag Goose - 80 - c. ads & young ; Tufted Duck - 5 - inc ad female with 1 young ; Moorhen - 2 - on Top Res ; Kestrel - 3 - inc ad male feeding recently fledged juv ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Curlew - 2 - pair alarming by reservoir cottages - indicating young present ; Black-headed Gull - 49 - mostly flew SW in 2 hours ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 92 - in fields ; Herring Gull - 2 - ads with LBBs ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling by south side of Middle Res - sat out in open for once! ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Swallow - 35 - c. on wires along Soughley Lane ; Swift - 5 - flew SW ; Crossbill - 6 - left the Redmires Plantation to the W at 08:30 hrs