Sightings Archive

Ulley CP: Coot - 8 - Pair with 6 chicks. ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair with nest.

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Males singing near nest boxes ; Willow Warbler - 55+ - a site record count, 51 singing ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Greylag Goose - 6+ - 4 at dam pond, 6 flying over heath an hour later ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Crossbill - 3 - Pair and 1 juvenile drinking from puddle near central heath path

Whiston Meadows: Robin - 5 - 4 singing ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Blackcap - 3 ; Wren - 2 ; Blue Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Pair, male singing ; Greylag Goose - 3 - Marshy area. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3

Aldwarke SF: Blackcap - 4 - inc 2 singing males ; Whitethroat - 9 - inc 8 singing males ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Gadwall - 5 - 3m; 2f, in aerial display ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Coot - 5+ - #NAME? ; Little Grebe - 1pr ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Mallard - 6+ - 4m; 2f + broods of 6 & 12 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing males ; Mute Swan - 1pr - pen on nest ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 3m; 2f ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring, tumbling & sparring overhead @ 1100hrs; 2 left SW, third N ; Long-tailed Tit - 2

Barlborough: Red Kite - 1 - Drifted slowly east over village

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male near nest box ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1

Blacka Moor(Strawberry Pastures): Wheatear - 7 - inc 4 females, count most I've seen here ; Linnet - 3 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 1 singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - m ; Skylark - 4 ; Curlew - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - m ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 12 - 6 singing ; Meadow Pipit - 60

Burbage Valley: Black Redstart - 1

Canklow Woods: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling

Catcliffe Flash: Common Sandpiper - 2 - on dead branches

Denaby Common/Low Meadow: Greylag Goose - 10 - inc 6 on adjacent river ; Canada Goose - 5 ; Carrion Crow - 19 ; Cormorant - 1 - on river ; Grey Heron - 1 - E/NE ; Reed Bunting - 1 - calling ; Gadwall - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Kingfisher - 1 - f, on river ; Hobby - 1 - left S @ 0652hrs ; Sand Martin - c20 - over; several birds digging in recently exposed soil bank by river, S of last year's colony ; Lapwing - 4 - displaying

Firsby Res: Chiffchaff - 4 - Singing ; Blackcap - 8 - 6 singing and 2 females ; Garden Warbler - 5 - At least 4 singing and pair copulating ; Willow Warbler - 8 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - 2 singing ; Blackbird - 13 - Males counted ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing from willows ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 4 singing ; Tree Sparrow - 2+ ; Dunnock - 13 - 11 Singing ; Goldfinch - 12 - 2 pairs nest building ; Greenfinch - 2 - Pair ; Bullfinch - 8 ; Linnet - 8 - 4 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Single flew east carrying food ; Sand Martin - 7 - Feeding overhead ; Swallow - 2 ; Willow Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 - 3 active nests ; Collared Dove - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - Males hunting ; Song Thrush - 5 - 4 singing, previous nest now abandoned

Kilnhurst: Common Tern - 1 - N along canal

Kilnhurst Ings: Cormorant - 3 - all S ; Swallow - 1 - N ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - inc singing male ; Blackcap - 3 - singing males ; Red-legged Partridge - 1pr ; Mallard - 5 - 3m; 2f