Sightings Archive

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 2

Swinton Common; Wentworth Road: Goldcrest - 1 - calling ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing

Warren Vale Community Woodland: Song Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 7 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Redwing - 10 - NW ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from pylon ; Kestrel - 1 - on pylon ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult dead under powerlines (first noted 24/03); BTO ring W36587; yellow darvic 087 [ringed Sept 2013 at Ulley Res]

Warren Vale LNR: Tawny Owl - 1 - male calling @ 0800hrs ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male, drumming ; Treecreeper - 1 - feeding ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr

Warren Vale LNR; Birch Wood: Redwing - 6 - NW ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male, hunting ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Wharncliffe Chase (south): 319 - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Redwing - 10+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 1+ ; Raven - 1 - Mobbed by crow pair ; Skylark - 10+ - 15.30 1-2 singing, rest feeding quietly ; Lapwing - 6 - On territory on highest plain. ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Stonechat - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ ; Starling - c300 - 2 sizeable groups feeding ; Linnet - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Stock Dove - 3

Aughton: Red Kite - 1 - Circling over Main St at 16:00 ; Grey Heron - 1 - over ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - Feeding on School field

Bamford Edge: Black Redstart - 1 ; Ring Ouzel - 2 pairs

Barlow Common: 319 - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1

Blacka Moor: Tree Pipit - 4 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Fieldfare - 30 ; 324 - 1 - Weasel ; 324 - 5 - Peacock butterfly ; Stonechat - 4

Burbage Bridge: Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair alarm calling at Sparrowhawk ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - perched on bracken ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - several in song flights ; Stonechat - 1 ; Wren - 1 - singing from bracken ; Red Grouse - 4 - 'singing' males

Burbage Valley: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Briefly ; Snipe - 1 - Chipping in rushes ; Meadow Pipit - 40+ - Abundant ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Skylark - 3+ - Display flight over Callow Bank and Higger Tor ; Lapwing - 2 ; Curlew - 2+ - Heard only ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Pheasant - 2

Canklow Woods: Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair displaying ; Blackcap - 1 - 1 singing

Centenary Riverside: Kingfisher - 2 - Pair on river ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Dunnock - 6 ; Blue Tit - 05-Jun - One carrying nesting material ; Kestrel - 1 - Over ; Long-tailed Tit - 05-Jun - One carring nesting material. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair on river ; Canada Goose - 2 - Pair with white domesticated goose tagging along, seen previously.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 4 - 3f, 1m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring

Grindleford: Nuthatch - 1 - on a bird feeder ; Song Thrush - 1

Hail Mary/Falconer Woods: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - M & F ; 319 - 2 - overhead ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - together

Hathersage: Nuthatch - 1 - calling, Leam Lane ; Raven - 1 - Near Hazelford Hall

Hay Wood: Song Thrush - 2+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - heard

Houndkirk Moor: Curlew - c16 - Flying south across fields below Houndkirk

Howden Res: 320 - 2 - male and female, near Westend ; Mandarin - 2 - male and female, near Westend

Malin Bridge: Raven - 1 - Raven calling , very high over Norris Road,