Sightings Archive

Padley Wood: Wood Warbler - 2+ - at least 2 trilling, Bolehill track

Parkgate: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1500hrs

Redmires conduit: Grey Wagtail - 1 - gathering food from conduit ; Snipe - 2 - calling and dropping into reedy in horse fields

Roper Hill: Linnet - 2 - male and female

Surprise View: Red Kite - 1

Ulley Res: Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Blackcap - 3 ; Chaffinch - 6 - 5 singing ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Robin - 2 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Moorhen - 6 - 2 adults, 4 juveniles. ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 1 North arm, 1 main lake, 1 bottom of weir. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Bottom of weir ; 321 - 1

Upper Ewden: Red Kite - 2 - one in long glide from upper Agden beck to Ewden Height, other shortly after around Margery Hill

Wadsley: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing in Wadsley Churchyard.

Whiston: Skylark - 3 - Fields off Little Common Lane 11.30, singing. ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Linnet - 2 - Pair ; Dunnock - 1 - Singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male, 13.20 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - Field ; 319 - 2 - 1 low over fields, 1 high over Ulley 13.35

Whiteley Woods: Dipper - 1 - flew downstream ; Blackcap - 1 - male - singing

Bar Brook Valley: Stonechat - 2 - m+f ; Whinchat - 2 - m+f ; Cuckoo - 1

Barlow Common: Swift - 2 - at last our local Swifts are back!

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 2 - Two trilling males

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Carr Vale Nature Reserve: Iceland Gull - 1 - juv Iceland Gull again at Carr Vale at 07.50 then flew north - per BirdNewsDerbyshire

Catcliffe: Greenfinch - 1 - Calling nr Whitby's car park ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing ; Goldfinch - 1 - Singing 12.20 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing 12.20

Derwent Moors: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Sat on wall on path down from Whinstone Lee Tor

Handsworth: Swift - 3 - Chasing and screaming over Handsworth Grange Road

Hangingwater garden: Blackbird - 2 - 1 fledgling with adult male in attendance

Keppels Field: Whitethroat - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Kiveton Community Woodland: Yellow Wagtail - 2 - pair in field to the the South.

Middlewood: Swift - 8 - One enterning eaves of Ganton Road. 5 present regularly over last week, up to 8 now. One hawking over Hillsborough park this am. ; House Martin - 1 - Still only one bird and present since 3rd May. Several pairs usually in the area although often arrive on site late May.

Millhouses: Swift - 0 - None seen or heard over Millhouses since a single bird on 08/05/2018. Conditions seem perfect but the sky is swiftless in this former stronghold. Looks like a similar picture over Heeley though not visited daily. ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ - Family party in the observers garden.

Oughtibridge: Starling - 6+ - attending 3 separate nests under eaves with young heard calling on Birkswood drive.

Padley Gorge: Wood Warbler - 3 - One very visible from top of ramp, second heard in distance. Third visible at foot of ramp. ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard calling from woods ; Wood Warbler - 2 ; Redstart - 3 - 2m 1f ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Dipper - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 - all males ; Blackcap - 2 - full song ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 3 - Male courting a female & a different single trilling male in a different location

Pit-house West: Reed Warbler - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Whitethroat - 2

Scholes Village: Lapwing - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - c30 - feeding in recently cut fields ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Swallow - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Collared Dove - 1+ ; Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 2+ ; Blackbird - 3 - sing ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Magpie - 4 ; Starling - 20+ ; House Sparrow - 10+ ; Tree Sparrow - 2 - @ Yewtree farm in guttering ; Chaffinch - 1+ - sing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - sing

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2+ - 3 chicks ringed this morning by Sorby Breck RG (Steve Samworth) ; Peregrine - 2+ - female in close attendance during ringing ; Peregrine - 2 - another photo of the female

Surprise View: Whitethroat - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - female

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 - =3pr ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 20 ; Mallard - 9 - f9y ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Pheasant - 4 - crow ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 20 - 8sing