Sightings Archive

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 2+ - 2 seen playing in the air together ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ ; Linnet - 1 - Male ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reelng briefly

Cressbrook Dale: Wheatear - 2 - males

Dronfield Woodhouse: Little Egret - 1 - Flying SE over Birchin Lee Farm

Leash Fen: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Swift - 7

Linacre Res: Mandarin - 5+ - 5 females with broods of 3; 5; 6; 7 and 9. ; Mallard - 5+ - 5 mallard broods now present. ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 - A nesting pair and a second pair with a young chick. ; Tufted Duck - 11 - no broods seen as yet.

Longshaw: Mandarin - 2 - Female & Juvenile ; Swift - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male

Longshaw Lodge: Siskin - 3 - Male & female

Meersbrook Park: Swift - c16

Middleton Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 237 - Loafing at 12.15 ; 320 - 2 - Males ; Curlew - 2 - Dive bombing carrion crow in meadow

Norton Lees: Blue Tit - 4 - 2 adults, 2 juvs - In observer's garden

Orgreave Lakes: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Still present on small lake. ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - On main lake. ; Cuckoo - 1 - Chased towards the river by 2 Meadow Pipits at 0935. ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Redshank - 4 ; Mute Swan - 3 - Island pair with just 1 cygnet. ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Flew onto island. ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Showing particularly well this evening ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - Head shot

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Male & female visiting nesting box with food ; Treecreeper - 1+

Ramsley Moor: Stonechat - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 01-Feb ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Swift - 4+ ; Tree Pipit - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling in Hollings Lane 'meadows' all morning

Stanage Edge, below: Chiffchaff - 8 - Two family groups ; Curlew - 5 - Plus 3 young rescued from a dangerous road walk ; Stonechat - 2 ; Redstart - 1 ; Siskin - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Rook - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 - feeding young ; Nuthatch - 2

Aldwarke: Lapwing - 4 ; Starling - c20 ; Ringed Plover - 2-3prs ; Grey Heron - 2 - on pond ; Linnet - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Stock Dove - 1 ; House Martin - c10 - feeding over pond

Aldwarke SF: Reed Bunting - 2 - singing males ; Whitethroat - 4 - inc singing male; anxiety calls ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Peregrine - 1 - adult f ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Mallard - 7 - 4m; 3f ; Gadwall - 2+ - 2f + 12 juvs (broods of 3 & 9) ; Coot - 11 - inc fully-grown juvs (incomplete count due to poor accessibility-very overgrown) ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Little Grebe - 02-Mar - adults ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Blackcap - 2 - singing males ; Pheasant - 1+ - 1f + brood of small chicks ; Great Tit - breeding confirmed

Blackburn Meadows NR: Lapwing - 6 - Including 3 chicks ; Nuthatch - 1 - In trees by the car park. Only the second record for this site.

Canklow Woods: Mistle Thrush - 1 - 1 carrying food ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing briefly

Greasbrough: Song Thrush - 1 - singing male ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing male

Middleton Moor: QUAIL - 1 - calling this morning ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 62 ; Raven - 1

Orgreave Lakes: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - feeding on small lagoon, still present at 0815 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - second photo ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - still present at 10:20 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Redshank - 3+ ; Canada Goose - 30+ - goslings in crèche among adults ; GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - in flight

Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 62 - inc 17 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 11 ; Herring Gull - 2 - both 3rdS ; Black-headed Gull - c60 - majority adults ; Whooper Swan - 1 - 2 cy