Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley-upstream from S-bend: Nuthatch - 2 - Calling ; Mandarin - 1 - Male ; Dipper - 2 - Nest building

Roundwood Golf course: Blackcap - 2 - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Stock Dove - 4 - left towards Liberty Steels ; Sand Martin - 2+ - over SE edge/railway embankment (site of probable colony)

Silverwood Lagoon: Lesser Whitethroat - 2 - 1 singing in Hollings Lane meadows, 1 singing below N edge of Woodlaithes estate ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 8 - singing

Spout House Hill: Grey Partridge - 1

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - singing from pointy top of rock below the edge, between High Neb and Stanage End

Wharncliffe Side: Woodpigeon - 2 - nest in hedging in observers garden around 2m above ground level

White Lee Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - calling from plantation.

Graves Park: Mallard - 1+ - 1 with 7 small ducklings ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - male

Higger Tor: Ring Ouzel - 2 - Breeding pair

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - mobbed by Nuthatch

Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Wheatear - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 9 - Singing on circuit of lagoon ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Shelduck - 2 ; 320 - 11 ; Dunlin - 2

Midhope Res area: Curlew - 32 - Feeding in fields off Midhope Hall Lane. ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - My first here this year. ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; Little Grebe - 3 - 2 trilling ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Linnet - 3 ; Siskin - 1 ; Herring Gull - 1 - sub-adult

Morthen Lane: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing from mature gardens by roadside

Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 ; Hobby - 1 - through at 08:05

R Sheaf, Heeley: Moorhen - 1 - on nest, Broadfield Road

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Greenfinch - 1pr - in garden ; Chaffinch - 1pr - in garden

Redmires Top Res: Grey Plover - 2 - summer plumaged birds low N calling at 16:10

Silver Wood: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling in open area west of r/way line pond

Wyming Brook: Red Kite - 1 - low E and circling mid-afternoon ; Swallow - 1 - Wyming Brook Farm

Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 3 - pair and another male singing ; Tree Pipit - 3 - Pair and another singing male ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 - 2 singing males and a female ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 - another photo

Barlow Brook: Grey Wagtail - 1

Burbage Brook: Ring Ouzel - 2 - 2 male

Chatsworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - carrying food

Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 3 - all males ; Snipe - 1 - calling

Cressbrook: Chiffchaff - 1

Cressbrook Dale: Skylark - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - Top of Dale towards Wardlow

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - Nest with eggs. ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Males. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - 3 - Over main Res. No breeding site now cottage been demolished. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 5+ - Singing Males. ; Willow Warbler - 6+ ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pairs. ; Goldfinch - 6 - Inc nesting pair. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Linnet - 4 - Over.

Kimberworth: Chiffchaff - 1 - In garden feeding on aphids.

Litton: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Skylark - 1

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 2 - Pair ; Oystercatcher - 2

Miller*s Dale: Chiffchaff - 5 ; Dipper - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 4 - Pair+two singles ; Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing on moorland edge. ; Tree Pipit - 3 - At least 3 singing birds ; Pied Flycatcher - 6 + ; Tree Pipit - 3 - 2nd photo

Ravensdale: Chiffchaff - 2

Rawmarsh: Greylag Goose - 3 - very high to NE @ 0940hrs ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over incline then NW @ 0955hrs ; House Martin - 3 - 2 + 1, all N

Redmires Res: Tufted Duck - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 - displaying on Top Res ; 320 - 2 - pair on Middle Res ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - on Bottom Res ; Herring Gull - 2 ; Curlew - 6 ; Willow Warbler - 20 - c. ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing