Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - in briefly then n ; Black-headed Gull - 90 - inc. 50sw ; Skylark - 8 - 6sing ; Sand Martin - 1 - n ; House Martin - 1 - in ; Wren - 11 - sing ; Dunnock - 15 - 11sing ; Robin - 20 - 10sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackbird - 17 - 7sing ; Blackcap - 3 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - sing ; Great Tit - 7 - 6sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 10 ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Bullfinch - 12 - inc10 -5pr at feed stat ; Reed Bunting - 9 - 2sing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 1sing ; Feral Pigeon - 50+

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over @ 0855hrs

Thrybergh Tip: Chiffchaff - 10 - inc 8 singing ; Blackcap - 9 - inc 8 singing ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Grey Heron - 2 - inc 1 W ; Reed Bunting - 01-Feb - males ; Mallard - 1pr ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Gadwall - 11 - lots of calling/aerial pursuits ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 18-20 ; Shoveler - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 21 - 1 adult, 20 2cy ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr - nestbuilding ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing from Phragmites ; Mute Swan - 14 - 1pr + nest on flash; 9 SW, 1 W & 2 E between 0718-0843hrs ; Willow Tit - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 6 - inc 4 singing ; Bullfinch - 3 - 1pr + 1f ; Coot - 12 ; Moorhen - 3 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 4prs - song noted ; Raven - 1 - calling in distance, off to SE (heard only)

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - sing ; Blackbird - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - sing

Agden Beck: Raven - 3

Agden Rocher: Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Jay - 2 ; Redstart - 1 - male briefly singing .

Barbrook Pools: 320 - 2 - Pair ; Peregrine - 1 - Flew high to E ; Lapwing - 2 ; Curlew - 4 - 2 pairs calling and display flight ; Golden Plover - 1 - Calling continuously NW of pools. ; Red Grouse - 2 - 2 males ; Swallow - 3

Bole Hill, Totley: Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing

Bolsterstone/heads lane area: Curlew - 4 ; Lapwing - 12 ; Swallow - 2 - flying around farm ; Skylark - 5 - singing over moorland/pasture ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling from conifer further up moor

Brinsworth: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Flew over NW railway lines Barrett estate. 14.00

Burbage Valley: Raven - 1

Canklow: 319 - 1 - Over woods, moved Eastward.13.15

Canklow Woods: 319 - 2 - Over woods 16.10.

Chatsworth Park: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male singing ; Nuthatch - 9 - Heard/seen in 1 hour walk ; Sand Martin - 6 - At least 6 around breeding colony near cricket ground

Coal Aston: Little Owl - 1 - Gleaming in sunlight on a roadside fence pole

Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 1 - singing male

Dukes Road: Wheatear - 2 - around Rushy Dyke ; Golden Plover - 8 ; Curlew - 4

Edge Mount: Fieldfare - c50 - flying high north at dusk

Hathersage: Blackcap - 1 - Singing by railway station

Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Female - initially feeding on the ivy berries at the bottom of the garden. Then moved in to try the fatballs and the seed feeder. A regular goldilocks. ; Greenfinch - 1 - Male on seed feeder ; Blackcap - 1 - Male singing ; Siskin - 1 - Very pale bird briefly

Longshaw Lodge: Curlew - 2 - Feeding in field below lodge before flying off in NW direction

Manor Fields Park: Linnet - 6 ; Canada Goose - 1 - flew north at 06:50 ; Song Thrush - 6 - 3 pair on site ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 7 - 3 pair +1 female ; Chiffchaff - 3

Middleton Moor: Ruff - 3 ; Fieldfare - 1

Nether Edge: 322 - 1 - female Indian Peafowl on roof at Raven Road during the evening. ; 322 - 1 - INDIAN PEAFOWL. Female on roof at Raven Road had escaped from an owner on nearby Glen Road. According to owner it was still on lose as of 18/04/18

Norwood Allotments: 319 - 3+ - 3 together to the west around 2pm appeared to be riding the same thermal as 3 paragliders and 1 peregrine. 2 passed over eastwards around 3 pm.