Sightings Archive

Monday 18th April 2022

• Burbage Valley: Treecreeper - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5+ ; Robin - 2 ; Great Tit - 3+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 1
• Centenary Riverside: Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; 321 - 2 - River ; Canada Goose - 2 - Pair ; Cormorant - 1
• Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 2 - pair
• Crosspool-Den Bank Wood: Blackbird - 10 - Several singing ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 3 - Calling ; Coal Tit - 1 - On feeder ; Wren - 6 - Singing ; Robin - 7 - Most singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - Calling ; Dunnock - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Calling ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Bullfinch - 3 - Males ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 1 calling ; Brambling - 1 - Calling
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 4 - 2 pairs. ; Gadwall - 2 - Pair ; Mallard - 5 ; 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Carrying food. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Blackcap - 5+ - All Males.. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing in too Reed bed. ; Willow Warbler - 4+ ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male. ; Goldfinch - 2 - Pair nest building.
• Fulwood garden: Red Kite - 1 - Red Kite and Buzzard circling quite high then interacting ; House Sparrow - 3 - one gathering nest material ; Jay - 1
• Gleadless Valley LNR: Chiffchaff - 3 - singles ; Wren - 2
• Higger Tor: Wheatear - 2 - m & f ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Ring Ouzel - 3
• Hudson*s Rough: Mallard - 1 - male @ pond, SE of f/p ; Moorhen - 1 - @ pond ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - calls ; Wren - 2+ - singing ; Robin - 2+ - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1+
• Kimberworth Park: Song Thrush - 1 - singing, W side of Fenton Road
• Midhope Res: Garden Warbler - 1 ; Woodcock - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Linnet - 1+ ; Ring Ouzel - 1 male ; Whooper Swan - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Swallow - 2 west ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 imm West ; Snipe - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Goldcrest - 1 singing ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 singing ; Skylark - 1 singing ; 319 - 1 ; Little Grebe - 2
• Moss Valley, upper: Chiffchaff - 11 - 11 heard ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; 319 - 3 - singles ; Mandarin - 1 - m in stream ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Swallow - 1
• Norton Lees: 321 - 1 - over Warminster Road
• Old Ravenfield: Yellow Wagtail - 1 - On path between Pit Wood and Old Ravenfield.
• Orgreave Tip: Whitethroat - 2
• Oughtibridge: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing in the woods at the back of the health centre
• Owler Tor: Wheatear - 2 - m & f
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 6 - 5m 1f
• Redmires Top Res: Red Kite - 1 - low circling at 10:00, mobbed by local Crows
• Roughwood Rec: Rook - 2 - feeding
• Silverwood Lagoon: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 2 - still present at midday