Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Lapwing - 1 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Swift - 3 ; 319 - 2 - pair displaying over The Close ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 1pr

Stanage Edge, below: Whinchat - 1 ; Raven - 2 - Cruising along top edge ; Woodcock - 3 - including 1 roding at 8am ; Curlew - 6 ; Cuckoo - 1 - persistent calling between Dennis Knoll and Hollin Bank ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 16 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Red Grouse - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - in ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 9 - 5m4f ; Red-legged Partridge - 3 - 2-1c ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 4 - crow ; Lapwing - 2 - prob sat on nests ; Common Tern - 1 - left n 0945 ; Swift - 5 ; Swallow - 3 ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Wren - 13 - sing ; Dunnock - 8 - sing ; Robin - 10 - sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 11 - 10sing ; Blackcap - 7 - 6sing ; Whitethroat - 6 - 4sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 5 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - sing ; Great Tit - 10 - 4sing ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - 02-Jan ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Goldfinch - 14 - around site ; Bullfinch - 6 - 02/02/2002 ; Reed Bunting - 6 - 3sing ; Common Tern - 1 - On open swimming course marker bouy where Tern raft used to be moored in past years!

Wharncliffe Chase: Wheatear - 7 ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 pairs ; Redstart - 2 - Singing ; Skylark - 5+ ; Stonechat - 1 - male alarming

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 4 - 2 pairs ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Tree Pipit - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2+ - 2 occupied nest boxes ; Song Thrush - 2+ - One singing, another on nest

Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 - Male singing by bend ; Pied Flycatcher - 1

Aston: Hobby - 1 - Flew north over Church Lane mid-evening

Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 3 ; Swallow - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Pheasant - 6 ; Linnet - 4 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1

Bradfield/rocher area: Osprey - 1 - gliding over from Dam Flask area to Broomhead area ; Mallard - 2 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Lapwing - 5` ; Curlew - 2 ; Snipe - 1 - chipping from post ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; Green Woodpecker - 2 - both calling from different areas ; Skylark - 4 - all singing in flight ; Swallow - 3 - overflying sheep pasture ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing from hawthorn ; Willow Warbler - 3 - all singing ; Wren - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Chaffinch - 04-May ; Greenfinch - 1

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - A pair.