Sightings Archive

Saturday 4th June 2022

• Calf Knoll Beck: Woodpigeon - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Swift - 1
• Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 2 ; Blue Tit - breeding confirmed - fledged juvs
• Dukes Road: Red Kite - 4 - In general area. ; Red Grouse - 2+ - adult with 1+ small chicks.
• Hingcliff Common: Cuckoo - 1 - male heard ; 319 - 2 - soaring low overhead
• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Snipe - 3 - 2 chipping, 1 feeding on ground ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - recently fledged young ; Blackbird - 1 - female carrying food ; Lapwing - 2 ; Skylark - 1+ - displaying ; Greylag Goose - 11+ ; Swift - 5+ ; Swallow - 4
• Mickleden Beck: Stonechat - 5+ ; Willow Warbler - 6+ ; Wren - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Swift - 1 - flying over
• Mickleden Edge: 324 - 10+ - many active Heath Moths
• Midhope Res: Blackbird - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Mallard - 30+ - mostly males starting to moult, plus 2 females with young ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; House Martin - 12+ - flying/feeding over recent tree felling area ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 pairs, no young seen ; Greylag Goose - 30+ ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male ; Curlew - 1 - on dam face by water's edge ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - female calling and flying out from plantation over Barnside Moor
• Rawmarsh; Green Lane: Hobby - 1 - SW @ 1015hrs
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Woodpigeon - 2 - adult + fledged/independent juv
• Raynor Clough: Barn Owl - 1
• RVCP, Main Lake: Wigeon - 1 - last departing bird.
• Silverwood Lagoon: Tufted Duck - 11 - 7m; 4f ; Reed Bunting - 2 - m & f ; Reed Warbler - 2+ ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Mallard - 7+ - + 5 juvs ; Sand Martin - 1 - with HMs ; House Martin - c20 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1pr+ - + 9 cygnets ; Little Grebe - 9-10+ - + at least 4 juvs
• Silverwood Pit Top: Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Blackcap - 5 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 7 - singing ; Jay - 3 ; Whitethroat - 8 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+
• Stanage Edge, below: Raven - 3 - overhead - mobbed by male Kestrel ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Cuckoo - 2 - male calling + a second bird seen being chased with a female heard calling later ; Lapwing - 4 - present at Hook’s Carr ; Curlew - 2 - pair alarming in suitable breeding habitat around Sheepfold ; Snipe - 3 - 2 near Sheepfold + 1 at Hook’s Carr ; Whinchat - 2 - males in suitable breeding habitat around Buck Stone ; Stonechat - 8 - 4 pairs feeding young between Cowper Stone and Dennis Knoll ; Reed Bunting - 6 - Males singing between Cowper Stone and Dennis Knoll ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing by Stanage Plantation ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing near Stanage Plantation ; Meadow Pipit - 42 - during survey between Cowper Stone and Dennis Knoll - including 4 ads carrying food ; Skylark - 4 - territories between Cowper Stone and Dennis Knoll ; Ring Ouzel - 4 - pairs along Edge between Cowper Stone and Dennis Knoll - pair at Cowper Stone and Robin Hood’s Cave both seen carrying food ; Red Grouse - 6 - pair with 4 chicks near Cowper Stone
• Sugden Clough: Meadow Pipit - 6+ - some displaying ; Golden Plover - 3 - No young seen but one adult calling as if to attract it's fledglings ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Curlew - 4+ - displaying, maybe response to gulls flying overhead ; Willow Warbler - 5+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 - flying low over moor ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Thickwoods Brook: Meadow Pipit - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 1
• Thrybergh CP: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2