Sightings Archive

SBSG area: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1

Scholes Paddock, Wood: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1

Sunnybank: Chiffchaff - 1

Ughill: Linnet - c100 - flock foraging infield off Corker Lane

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - Singing. First of year here.

Watergrove: Oystercatcher - 2 - not the same pair as at Middleton Moor

Wharncliffe Chase: Swallow - 3 - Flying north ; Fieldfare - 100 ; Curlew - 2 ; Raven - 1 ; Stonechat - 2

Wharncliffe Wood: Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3

Wortley: Chiffchaff - 7+ - Singing ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; 319 - 5 - Circling

Agden Side: Snipe - 2 ; Curlew - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Skylark - 7 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Heard only

Aldwarke Lane: Kestrel - 1pr - sat on adjacent security lights by nesting site. Male visited Banana Plantation later.

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Raven - 1 - low over complex harassed by crow @ 0730hrs

Beauchief: Blackcap - 1 - Singing near the allotments

Blacka Moor: Curlew - 1 - over N ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ ; 319 - 2 ; Redwing - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 - males ; Wheatear - 2 - another photo ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - male ; Skylark - 10+ ; Skylark - 10+ - another photo ; Skylark - 10+ - another photo ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 1 male + pair ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Stonechat - 2 - pair

Canklow Woods: Woodcock - 1 - roding at 20:30

Cowell Flat: Peregrine - 1 - imm over ; Sand Martin - 2 - over N

Dalton: Mute Swan - 3 - over from direction of Thrybergh then SW towards canal basin @ 0855hrs

Dukes Road: Red Kite - 1

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 8 - at feeders

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 42 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mandarin - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 10 ; Goosander - 1 - a redhead ; 319 - 1 ; Raven - 2

Longstone Edge: Willow Warbler - 1 - male singing

Mayfield Valley: Swallow - 1 - headed W

Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 2 - heard

Norton Lees: Goldfinch - 3

Norton Lees garden: 324 - I - Brimstone butterfly flying through

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 7 ; Goldeneye - 6 ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 - Pair on remaining waste ground ; Redshank - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 - 2 males on "plains" ; Willow Warbler - 10 - At least 10 around site. ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - in SW corner of main lake ; Skylark - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Linnet - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Gadwall - 13 ; 320 - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 5 ; 319 - 2

Parkgate: House Martin - 1 - over traditional nesting area

Parkgate; *Banana* plantaton: Blackcap - 2 - a pair - male singing furiously ; Chiffchaff - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 1 N/NW, 2 N, all adults ; Siskin - 1 - heard over ; Magpie - 5 - inc pair with nest ; Linnet - 4 - singles NW/N/NE ; Stock Dove - 1 - flew in from golf course then left towards Liberty Steels ; Blue Tit - 4 - noisy party, inc 1 with a beakful of moss ; Sand Martin - 2 - over plantation briefly before heading N ; Rook - 4 - SW together ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ - heading generally N ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

R Derwent, Grindleford: Goldcrest - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Mandarin - 6 ; Goosander - 2 - M&F ; Chiffchaff - 1