Sightings Archive

Stocksbridge/Stone Moor area: Jackdaw - 7 ; Starling - 16 ; Blackbird - 3

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 25 ; Mallard - 1b - 2ad f 11y2y ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 3m2f ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - past s ; Coot - 8 - +inc 2pr with young ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Swift - 4 ; Swallow - 5 - inc.1n2n2n ; Pied Wagtail - 4 - 1m3y ; Wren - 12 - sing ; Dunnock - 9 - sing ; Robin - 11 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 7 - sing ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Starling - 6+ - family party ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - sing

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 6+ - 3 occupied nest boxes ; Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing below Wharncliffe Crags

Wyming Brook/Rivelin Dams: Wood Warbler - 6 - Now an amazing SIX!!! trilling males, five can be seen from Main Tracks. Please keep to Main Tracks at all times.

Agden: Wood Warbler - 1 - 1 trilling below Emlin Ridge/Mortimer road ; Whitethroat - 1 - On smallfield lane

Agden Res: Mandarin - 8 - Female with six ducklings in Rocher End Brook inlet. Male nearby.

Aldwarke: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing Aldwarke lane

Apperknowle: Lapwing - 2 - Fields above Apperknowle

Back Tor, Derwentdale: Wren - 1 - singing at 500m /1640ft asl

Barbrook Valley: Lapwing - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ ; Swallow - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Whinchat - 3 ; Whinchat - 3 ; Skylark - 3 ; Curlew - 1 - chasing a crow ; Ring Ouzel - 1

Blacka Moor: Woodcock - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Curlew - 1 - Continuously calling on ground and then in flight for several minutes.

Botanical Gardens: Sparrowhawk - 1 - m, totally ignored by nearby swifts ; Swift - 18 - Max 18. Numbers increasing

Broomhead/Canyard Hills/Dwariden: Pheasant - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - flew from side of bridleway in rushy wood ; Woodpigeon - 04-May ; Cuckoo - 1 - constantly calling in canyard hills area ; Swallow - 04-May ; Willow Warbler - 06-Oct - many all singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 4 birds singing in different areas ; Wren - 3 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Redstart - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Song Thrush - 03-Apr - all singing in different areas ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - collecting worms in grassy area

Burbage Rocks: Ring Ouzel - 1 - On outcrop at Burbage Rocks South

Burbage Valley: Linnet - 1 - Having contretemps with Wren ; Stonechat - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard (not seen) in plantation in Burbage Valley

Cressbrook Dale: Raven - 4 - In the air, croaking

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - drakes ; Woodcock - 2 - roding over dam wall at 21:11

Denaby Common/Low Meadow: Carrion Crow - 21 ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 18 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Shoveler - 2 - drakes ; Kestrel - 1 - male, over ; Mallard - 7+ - inc duck with young brood running gauntlet of local crows! ; Gadwall - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 17 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock

Dennis Knoll: Reed Bunting - 1 - Male calling from below Causeway about 1/4 mile up from the car park

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting N of Watson's Tip ; Stock Dove - 1 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 6+ - sing ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Wren - 5 - sing ; Robin - 3+ - sing ; Blackbird - 4 - sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - 3 sing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - 1 sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Whitethroat - 3 - sing ; Blackcap - 8 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - sing ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing