Sightings Archive

Green Moor: Curlew - 4 - Two pairs

Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 individuals heard

Neepsend: Sand Martin - 4

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 16 ; Great Crested Grebe - 22 ; Scaup - 1 - ad male ; Scaup - 1 - another photo ; Goldeneye - 2 - 1 pair displaying ; Curlew - 1 - north at 06.30 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Wheatear - 5 - On plains at 10.00 ; Snipe - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - north at 09.40 ; Little Egret - 4 ; 321 - 2

Pike Lowe, Midhope: COMMON CRANE - 1 - Bird heard only - instinctively recognized but unable to find - having spent several minutes looking in air under good conditions?? I was presant birdwatching by Pike Lowe and heard the call coming from the SE direction of me - White Carr Ridge or possibly behind me? First time Iv heard one in the UK but unmistakable.

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Pied Wagtail - 1pr - in area all day; probably breeding nearby ; Swallow - 1 - NW @ 1003hrs

Redmires Top Res: Tufted Duck - 2

Rocher End: Redstart - 1 - singing intermittently

Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 3 - 2m, 1f, feeding on ridge

RVCP: Goldeneye - 4 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 - low over Wood ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 6 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing from SK395949,and 396951 ; Treecreeper - 2 - 1 pair, SK392951, passing food ; Treecreeper - 2 - 1 pair, SK392951, passing food

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 9 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - singing ; Little Grebe - 06-Aug - three or four pairs now established on territory

Thrybergh CP: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Sand Martin - 400+ - Great numbers again this morning ; House Martin - 30+ ; Swallow - 20 ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Willow Warbler - 6 ; Blackcap - 8 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 8 ; 319 - 8+ ; Marsh Harrier - 2 ; Sand Martin - 400+ ; House Martin - 30+

Tyzack*s Dam: Tufted Duck - 1 - Male on the water.

Upper Common, Scholes: Blackcap - 1 - singing near scrub

Wardlow Mires: Wheatear - 2 - males in field between Grindlow and Wardlow Mires

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Tufted Duck - 5 - 3m+2f ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - female

Wharncliffe Crags: Raven - 2 - flew over low

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Mandarin - 1 - male at dam pond, first site record ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 - males singing, one prospecting nest box, earliest site record by 3 days ; Tree Pipit - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 11 - singing ; Nuthatch - 12+ - 11 singing, 2 nest boxes with nests ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling ; Robin - 74 - singing ; Wren - 59 - singing ; Linnet - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 8 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Curlew - 1 - flew over reserve ; Common Buzzard - 1

White Rake: Wheatear - 2

Wortley: 319 - 10 ; Swallow - 2 - North ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Nuthatch - 8

Apperknowle: Swallow - 6

Baslow: Oystercatcher - 2 - Flew S E over observer’s house

Blackamoor: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Female calling at Blacka Hill then flew low towards Strawberry Lee plantation.

Broomhead Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 03-Apr ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - 1 singing dam wall, female western end

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 2 - m+f, female has blue+red+yellow and silver rings on left/right legs.

Chatsworth garden: Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 - male ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1

Chatsworth Park: Treecreeper - 2 - singles ; Song Thrush - 1