Sightings Archive

Sunday 21st May 2017

• Blackburn Meadows NR: Common Buzzard - 1 - using thermals to 'hover' above reserve
• Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 1
• Cowell Flat: Red Kite - 1 - Low over from Canyards mobbed by Curlews and Lapwings, drifting over SE towards Rod Moor.
• Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male mobbing Kestrel
• Dalton: Kestrel - 2 - hunting
• Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2
• Derwent Edge: Hobby - 1 - hawking insects White Tor - Dovestones Tor.
• Dukes Road: Hobby - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1
• Dyson Technical Ceramics (Totley Brick Works): Willow Tit - 1 - calling at northern end of old tip SK 29657 79374
• Fairholmes: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - pair visiting nestbox ; Nuthatch - 2 - pair feeding juvs in nestbox ; Jay - 1 - checking nestboxes for easy pickings.
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Kestrel - 1 - hunting over adjacent fields ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Blackcap - 3 - inc 2 singing males ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Little Grebe - 1 - probably a breeding pair present ; Moorhen - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4+ ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing males in area ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over adjacent field @ 1020hrs ; Skylark - 5 - inc 4 singing males over adjacent fields
• Firsby Res: Sedge Warbler - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 6 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Mallard - 10 - 5 adults 2 drakes 3 ducks and 5 ducklings ; Gadwall - 1 - male ; House Martin - c20 - in from East over pond briefly to drink carrying on West, ; 319 - 3 ; Great Tit - 1 - with food (very large caterpillar) to nest site. ; Skylark - 1
• Five Weirs Walk: Sand Martin - 20+ ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair
• Hangingwater garden: Nuthatch - 1 - taking fat-ball food from feeder towards Whiteley Wood
• High Bradfield: 322 - 1 - BLACK SWAN. Grazing in pasture below churchyard with a flick of 28 Greylag Geese.
• Holling Dale: Cuckoo - 1 - singing
• Holling Dale Plantation: Crossbill - 11 - flew out N ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing on moor to N
• Ladybower Res: Greylag Goose - 6+ - 6 adults and 6 goslings
• Leash Fen: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - on edge of a copse at northern end ; Skylark - 1 ; Kestrel - 1
• Manor Fields Park: Moorhen - 9 - 2 ad 3 well grown juvs 4 chicks from 2nd brood ths year. ; Whitethroat - 4 - with 1 obvious pair carrying food to probable nest site. ; Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 8 - 4 pairs ; Moorhen - 9 - 2 ad 3 well grown juvs 4 chicks from 2nd brood ths year.
• Middleton Moor: Sedge Warbler - 1
• Moorhall: Curlew - 1
• Moscar: Cuckoo - 1
• Moscar Fields: Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Lapwing - 4 - inc pair with 2 chicks ; Red Kite - 1 - low over to Ladybower Wood 17:30
• Nether Edge: Treecreeper - 1 - Tree in Thornsett Road
• Onesmoor: Yellow Wagtail - 2 - pair at roadside verge .
• Orgreave Lakes: Peregrine - 1 - Male attempted to take a Redshank early evening.
• R Don, Aldwarke: Whitethroat - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Kingfisher - 1pr - carrying fish to juvs, probably in nest ; Mute Swan - 1
• R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Kingfisher - 1pr+ - feeding 2+ fledged juvs ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Grey Wagtail - 1+ - male feeding fledged juv on Thrybergh Bridge ; Mute Swan - 1pr - inc 811 (yellow) ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - drakes
• R Sheaf, Heeley: Mandarin - 1 - male near Broadfield Road
• Ramsley Moor: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - showing very well on the edge of the wood near the reservoir ; Whinchat - 3 ; Stonechat - 1 ; 319 - 01-Feb ; Kestrel - 2 ; Skylark - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Raven - 1 ; Swallow - 01-Feb ; Meadow Pipit - 5+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Linnet - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Cuckoo heard only
• Redmires: Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - 1