Sightings Archive

Hillsborough: Swift - 7 - 5 over Burton Street and 2 over bottom of Halifax Road.

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Lapwing - 4 - incl. 1 chick ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Raven - 1

Malin Bridge: Swift - 4

Midhope Moor: Woodcock - 2 roding

Midhope Res area: Curlew - Oct-15 - Flitting between fields, Midhope Res shoreline and Low Moor. ; Swallow - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 7+ ; Swift - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - Singles west ; Little Grebe - 03-Apr ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Goldfinch - 4 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 3 pairs ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ ; Siskin - 1

Monks Dale: Redstart - 4+ - at least 4 singing males

Padley Gorge: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing bird near small stone building ; Pied Flycatcher - 6+ ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Spotted Flycatcher - 3 ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 5 - at least 5 singing males. 1 pair nest building in a natural site. 1 male courtship feeding. ; Tree Pipit - 3 - singng ; Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Whinchat - 1 - singing male

Poolsbrook Marsh: Cetti's Warbler - 2 - singing at opposite ends of Signalbox pool ; Reed Warbler - 8 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing. ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Grey Heron - 1

Redmires: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 53 - Resting on field East of lower reservoir

Scholes Coppice: Goldcrest - 2 - Both singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ - adult entering nest, calls of young heard.

Silverwood Lagoon: Oystercatcher - 2 - flew a circuit of lagoon then north at 06.20 ; Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing briefly ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 13 - at least 13 singing around pit top ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - 8 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Kestrel - 1

Underbank Res: Whooper Swan - 1 - Possibly the bird seen first at Westwood CP, then Midhope Res over the last few weeks. ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 1

Upper Dale: Dipper - 1 - feeding young in a nest under bridge

Wadsley: Swift - 3

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 - singing male

Birchinlee: Wood Warbler - 1 - 1 singing

Ecclesfield Park: Swift - 3

Eccleshall Woods: Blackcap - 2 - Singing, near Parkhead

Firsby Res: Coot - 5+ - 2 pairs. 1 pair has at least one chick. ; Mallard - 3 - Males. ; Gadwall - 1 - Drake. ; Greylag Goose - 2 - Pair seem to have take. Up residence. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Pair on sluice. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling early morning. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female with prey. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - On path. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming. ; Swallow - 2 - On wires. ; Skylark - 3+ ; Reed Bunting - 4 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Bullfinch - 1 - Call only. ; Goldfinch - 4+ ; Linnet - 4 ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 8 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Willow Warbler - 7 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - Calling from opposite ends of large Res.

Froggatt Wood: Woodcock - 3 - flying together at 05:30

Fulwood garden: Woodpigeon - 2+ - pair with fledged juv on lawn ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male durmming early morning ; Siskin - 3 - at feeders ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Swallow - 1 - First of the year here

High Green: Swift - 1 ; Swift - 5 - Over Burncross Cemetery house traditional nest site 16.45

Holmebrook Valley Park: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling from hedgerow in farmland next to woodland path in park

Malin Bridge: Swift - 3 ; Great Tit - 2 - adult feeding fledged juv