Sightings Archive

Midhope Moor: Golden Plover - 1 - Song flight

Midhope Res area: Whooper Swan - 1 - Resting in the woods on the southern shoreline. ; Curlew - 40 - Majority in fields below res. ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; Snipe - 1 - chipping ; Little Grebe - 6 - Numbers building, 3 trilling

Orgreave Lakes: Reed Bunting - 2 - Females near the weir. ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Whooper Swan - 42 - flew NW at 07:30

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - calling from woodland ; Stock Dove - 2 - over towards Liberty Steels ; Greylag Goose - 2 - E @ 0815hrs ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - N ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Kestrel - 2 - m & f; possibly Minteq pair? ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 - inc pair with nest now complete

Parkgate; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 1 - E ; Red-legged Partridge - 2prs - on adjacent fields ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Peter Dale: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - male, drumming ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh; Barber*s Avenue: Mistle Thrush - 1 - over ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Magpie - 1pr - at nest in roadside tree

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Redwing - 20 - flock, NW @ 0625hrs

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, left treetop & circled away NW

Redmires Middle Res: Redshank - 1

Redmires Top Res: Reed Bunting - 3 - 2 males and a female chasing in bushes ; Goldeneye - 1 - imm male - my first for several years here ; Goldeneye - 1 - another photo

Roundwood Golf course: Mute Swan - 2 - NE @ 0714hrs ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Siskin - 1 - over

Rud Hill: Golden Plover - 120

RVCP, Main Lake: Whooper Swan - 40+ - flew north

Sheepbridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Stanage Edge, below: Stonechat - 2 - 2 Singing males ; Meadow Pipit - 25+ ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Skylark - 5+ - Singing males ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing male ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Dunnock - 3 - singing males ; Wren - 5+ - singing males ; Lapwing - 4 - displaying ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male Hollin Bank Car park

Thrybergh Tip: Shoveler - 21 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1

Tideswell: 319 - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Hare. Fields near Tideswell.

Wharncliffe Side: Greenfinch - 2+ - Singing and gathering nest material

Wheston: Fieldfare - c130 - flew over

Wyming Brook: Dipper - 2

Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Barbrook Pools: Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Raven - 3

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing @06.15 ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - Both alarm calling

Comberwood Farm, High Moor: Barn Owl - 0 - many droppings and pellets in barn

Firsby Res: Coot - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair. ; Greylag Goose - 2 - Arrived early morning ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 2 - Over early morning. ; Song Thrush - 3+ - singing. ; Redwing - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 6+ - singing. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 5 - 3m and 2f ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Greenfinch - 5 - including 2 males singing against each other ; Siskin - 4 ; Goldfinch - 5 - including singing male ; Starling - 20 - including one incorporating Buzzard and Oystercatcher calls into song ; 319 - 2 - displaying pair overhead ; Chiffchaff - 1 - flew in from S singing, landed in oak and sang before heading further N

Hathersage: Canada Goose - 18 - In field near Leadmill Bridge

Hurlfield: Siskin - 2 - male + female on feeders ; Chaffinch - 1 - male singing ; Greenfinch - 3 - on feeders ; Goldfinch - 10+ - on feeders ; Jay - 1 - in garden ; Starling - 5 ; Tawny Owl - 2 - calling 05:30