Sightings Archive

Blacka Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling

Calver: HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - dark morph male over St Mary's Wood, circling and mobbed by Common Buzzards before drifting off N 09:45-09:55. ; HONEY BUZZARD - 1 - another photo

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Damflask Res: Mandarin - 2+ - Male with female and 4 v. young juv on Ughill brook arm.

Holmebrook Valley Park: Mute Swan - 3+ - 3 Cygnets now on lake with 2 adults and last years cygnet. 4 eggs are abandoned in the nest. They probably hatched yesterday. ; Mallard - 50+ - inc 25+ ducklings ; Coot - 10+ - 1 chick. At least 3 nests. ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair with nest still ; Blue Tit - 2+ - Nest with at least 5 chicks in.

Low Bradfield: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Swift - 3

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Crossbill - 12+ - flock over towards Broomhead at c13:15

Middleton Moor: Red-legged Partridge - 2 - In field north of track leading to lagoons

Miller*s Dale: Mandarin - 2 - a pair

Orgreave Lakes: Iceland Gull - 1 - juv flew north at c.06:10 ; Common Scoter - 1 ; Hobby - 1 ; Turnstone - 1 ; Turnstone - 1 ; Common Scoter - 1 ; Common Scoter - 1 - Drake still present early afternoon

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 4 - males ; Redstart - 3 - 1 male + pair taking food to a nest ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - moorland fringe

Ravensdale: 319 - 1 ; Swift - 12+

Roughwood Rec: 319 - 1 - drifted S over Kimberworth Park

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 13 ; Greylag Goose - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - m ; Herring Gull - 2 - 2cy ; Swift - 50+ ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 16 - 9sing ; Blackcap - 6 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 6 - #NAME? ; Magpie - 12 - all ads ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3sing ; Yellowhammer - 2 - sing

Tinsley Golf Course: Hobby - 1 - Adult high drifting north east.

Ulley Res: Mallard - 12+ - Inc 6 ducklings. ; Mute Swan - 2+ - 2 Adults with at least 6 new born Cygnets on nest. ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair - one on nest other fishing. ; Moorhen - 2+ - 2 adults 4 chicks. Adult tussling with coot. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing.

Bingham Park: Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Nuthatch - 1 - pecking round entrance to previously reported nest hole - did not enter. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Dore: Starling - c50 - A flock of c50 adults and young feeding on two adjacent garden lawns for last two days.

Forge Dam: Mallard - 9+ - Males, females + 5 ducklings in one brood, 1 in another ; Mandarin - 3+ - 2 males, 1 female + 4 possibles ducklings

Millhouses: Swift - 6 - The latest date of return , prospecting traditional nesting site

Orgreave Lakes: Turnstone - 1 - this afternoon

R Don, Stevenson Rd: House Martin - c20 ; Swift - c20 - low in poor weather

RVCP, Main Lake: Black Tern - 3 - Adults off the waterspoorts centre mid afternoon.

RVCP, Northern Lake: Common Tern - 2 - a pair ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - a pair

Shatton: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Seen at nest hole with audible young.

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 12 ; Gadwall - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 5m1f ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 5 - sing ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Skylark - 7 - sing ; Great Tit - 6 - +family 2ad4+jv ; Reed Bunting - 6 - m5sing ; Swift - 25 - + ; House Martin - 60 - + ; Swallow - 8 - + ; Herring Gull - 1 - -2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - flew downstream

Bar Brook Valley: Cuckoo - 1 - male calling & pursued by MPs ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Stonechat - 1pr - inc a very bright female