Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Reed Bunting - 5 - 3ssing

Wingfield: Osprey - 1 - Mobbed by gulls flew S over Kimberworth Park @16:20

Ash Cabin Flat: Linnet - 2 - pair holding territory - female flushed off nest

Barlow Common: Red Kite - 1 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; House Martin - 3 ; Swift - 1 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Swallow - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Linnet - 2 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

Big moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Singing opposite the Red Grouse pub.

Bolehill Flash: Tree Sparrow - 2+ - Pair feeding young in wall of Flatts Farm

Bull Clough: Golden Plover - 4 - 2 territories

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling between 1600 and 1800

Chatsworth: Sand Martin - 2 - Pair entering hole on riverbank opposite the main house.

Ewden Height: Red Grouse - 1 - One at Ewden Height the only grouse seen or heard during five-hour, 15 km walk across moorland from here to Strines.

Froggatt Bridge: Cuckoo - 2 - One singing was and one singing east of the river.

Graves Park: Nuthatch - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1

Handsworth: Chaffinch - 1 - Singing at Handsworth Cerm 15.20. ; Skylark - 1 - Singing over field East of Crem.

Harden Clough: Golden Plover - 8 - 4 territories from top of Bull Clough to Harden Trig Point ; Snipe - 1 - territory between top of Bull Clough and Harden Trig Point ; Snipe - 1 - territory between top of Bull Clough and Harden Trig Point ; Dunlin - 2 - at least 2 territories established between top of Bull Clough and Harden Trig Point - display noted ; Red Kite - 1 - overhead ; Marsh Harrier - 1 - imm male

Hillsborough Park: Mute Swan - 7 - Pair + 4 juv (about moorhen-sized) + 2cy bird still present.

Hingcliff Common: Meadow Pipit - 10 - 5 pairs ; Stonechat - 1 - male alarming in suitable breeding habitat ; Linnet - 1 - male singing

Langsett Res: Canada Goose - 6 - 2 ads + 4 young ; Greylag Goose - 20 - c. in from W ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - ad displaying along shoreline ; Jay - 1 ; Siskin - 2 - territories ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing

Langsett/Midhope: Curlew - 2 - ads with at least one young in soft rush - fields just before Langsett Wood ; Lapwing - 2 - pairs in fields ; Snipe - 1 - displaying over fields between Midhope & Langsett Wood

Manor/Elm Tree: Red Kite - 1 - 1 in tatty condition soaring over Manor Top/Elm Tree

Mickleden Beck: Grey Heron - 1 - overhead ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Merlin - 1 - male mobbing Common Buzzard ; Kestrel - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - pair - including female alarming by nest site ; Stonechat - 1 - alarming ; Red Grouse - 8 - family party ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling ; Golden Plover - 1 - territory

Midhope Res: Mallard - 4 - female + 3 young

New Stubbin colliery & tip site: Swallow - 3 ; Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring over together, calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 5 - inc 4 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1pr ; Stock Dove - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 5 - inc 1 singing ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - over ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - over ; Bullfinch - 1+ ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling ; Great Tit - breeding confirmed - family party ; Long-tailed Tit - breeding confirmed - family party

Orgreave Lakes: Sanderling - 1 ; Dunlin - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Garganey - 2 - Pair on Big Lake. Still present 10:15 ; Gadwall - 46 ; Pochard - 5

Oughtibridge garden: Siskin - 3 - 1 adult and 2 juvs feeding on niger seed and drinking at garden pond

Parkgate: Greenfinch - 1 - Calling at Bunnings car park 14.10

Pike Lowe, Midhope: Marsh Harrier - 1 - 1st-summer male

Ranmoor: Grey Wagtail - 1 - In garden

Redmires Res: Mallard - 7 - 1,3,3 young seen - few have survived again this year ; Kestrel - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2 pairs ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - 3 pairs - with 3, 2,1+ young ; Oystercatcher - 3 - Two ads + singled fledged juv ; Curlew - 8 - 4 pairs along conduiit ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 15 - mid-morning arrived from NE ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2 CY arrived from North with LBBs ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - 1 pair by road along Top Res ; Blackcap - 3 - singing