Sightings Archive

Damflask Res: Chiffchaff - 4 - Singing

Dog Kennel Pond: Cormorant - 5 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Ecclesfield: Whitethroat - 2 - Singing from brambles, Trans-Pennine Trail

Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; 319 - 1 - High over site. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting. ; Pheasant - 1+ - Female sat on nest in deep brambles, other nest close ; Blue Tit - 2 - Pair taking nesting material into cavity in tree stump. ; Blackcap - 3+ - Singing Males. ; Whitethroat - 2 - 1 calling in scrub near entrance gate, other along paddock hedge. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On sluice.

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 1 - male singing from same bush where wintering male was singing 3 weeks ago

Leash Fen (edges): Willow Warbler - 2

Longshaw: Whimbrel - 1 - Calls heard only coming from the south

Malin Bridge: Swift - 1 - heard above Norris Rd

Middleton Moor: Snipe - 3 ; 320 - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Linnet - 3 ; Wheatear - 2

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1 pair "inviting" display ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1 pair, moving later possibly to Dog Kennel ; Mallard - 20+ - including female with 9 chicks at E end of lake ; Tufted Duck - 16 ; Coot - 1+ ; Lapwing - 1 - E ; Greylag Goose - 2+ ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Norton Lees garden: 324 - 1 - Orange Tip - 1m ; Carrion Crow - 1 - Visiting regularly now, & coming to bird table

Padley Gorge: Tree Pipit - 1 ; Redstart - 2 ; Pied Flycatcher - 4+

Pit-house West: Reed Warbler - 3 - singing

Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 3 - including display flights ; Stonechat - 02-Mar - 1-2 m, 1 f ; Whinchat - 1 - male ; Willow Warbler - 3+ ; 319 - 03-Apr ; Linnet - 4+

Ramsley Res: Lesser Redpoll - 3+

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Song Thrush - 1 - singing @ 0530hrs ; Goldfinch - 7 - flock, visiting gardens ; Common Buzzard - 2 - high to E/SE @ 1113hrs

Redmires Res: Little Grebe - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 6 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling south side of Middle Res ; Willow Warbler - 34 - singing ; Redstart - 2 - singing males by Top Res ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

RVCP: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Common Tern - 1 - 1 'commic' tern briefly ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Silver Wood: Nuthatch - 3+ - Lots of activity and calling. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling. ; Treecreeper - 3+ - Calling.

Thrybergh CP: Swift - 13 ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 10+ - 7 birds in air together ; Kestrel - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Treeton SF: Carrion Crow - 20-30 - feeding on filters ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr

Treeton; Spa House Farm: Yellowhammer - 2 - calling ; Skylark - 01-Feb - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - male, flew SE

Ulley Brook Bog: Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Moorhen - 1 - calling ; Goldfinch - 2 - feeding at roadside ; Greenfinch - 1 - feeding with GO ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing by pull-in/gate ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - male, singing & collecting nest material ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Lapwing - 2 - chasing over field immediately NE

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 3+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing from low down in scrub ; Linnet - 2 - from gorse ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing from scrub

Wadsley: Swift - 25+ - Over Rockley Road, drifted N

Wentworth Park: Stock Dove - 1 - singing, Wood adj Deer Shed ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffle ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; 319 - 2 - 1 pair? W over Temple Hill Plantation

Baslow area: 321 - 1 in flight