Sightings Archive

Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing S of former pit site ; Skylark - 1 - singing, Little Lane

Scholes Ground: Skylark - 1 - singing

Scholes,: Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing

Silverwood Lagoon: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - heard briefly (probably for second day) ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 06-Jul - a few more in now ; Redshank - 1 - west at 08.45 ; Swallow - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - a pair regular in recent days. No Mute Swan to chase them off now ; Black-headed Gull - 3

Sothall: Blackcap - 1 - snatch of song nocmig recorded as bird passed over the garden 0155hr

Strines Moor: Ring Ouzel - 2

Thrybergh CP: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Sand Martin - 50 ; Swallow - c40 ; House Martin - 20 ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Swift - 2

Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 10 ; Tufted Duck - 14 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cetti's Warbler - 2+ ; Reed Warbler - 3 ; 319 - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Goldcrest - 2

Upper Ox Close Wood: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing

Wentworth, Cascades: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - 1pair ; Mallard - 17+ ; Tufted Duck - 7 - 3 pairs ; Swallow - 20+

Wentworth, Trowles Wood: 319 - 1 - over wood and adj field SW of Wentworth Woodhouse ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 2

White Edge Moor: Tree Pipit - 2 - singing males ; Redstart - 1 - singing male

Agden Side: Garden Warbler - 1 - At Agden crossroads/Kenney’s Moor.

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 5+ - At least 5 singing males ; Redstart - 3 - 2 singing males and a female ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - singing males ; Kestrel - 2 ; Raven - 1

Barlow Common: Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; House Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 2 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1

Burbage Valley: Meadow Pipit - 24+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - regular bird, north end ; Wren - 15+ ; Willow Warbler - 13+ - some new arrivals ; Reed Bunting - 5 - inc one pair, 4 males, one singing ; Linnet - 4 - 4 heading north ; Siskin - 2 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 - plantaion, singing males ; Blackbird - 2 - plantaion ; Song Thrush - 1 - plantation ; Ring Ouzel - 9 - paired birds & 2+ birds arrived overnight ; Dunnock - 4 - pair plus 2 singing males ; Robin - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - singing males ; Wheatear - 2 - pair M+F ; Woodpigeon - 10+ - further light passage north ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Curlew - 4+ - heard from Houndkirk Moor, Burbage Moor, Whitepath Moss & Callow Bank

Canklow Woods: Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Ecclesfield: Blackcap - 1 - Male singing in garden, Cross Hill.

Langsett Res: Cuckoo - 1 - Silently flew towards Upper Midhope. ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Swallow - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 4

Longshaw: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Mandarin - 2 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Seen together