Sightings Archive

Poolsbrook Marsh: Sedge Warbler - 4 - singing ; Whitethroat - 5 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - males

Redmires Res: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling in long grass south of bank between middle & bottom res

Redmires Top Res: Siskin - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2+ - pair with 12 small chicks ; Canada Goose - 2+ - pair with 5 small chicks ; Sand Martin - 2 - hawking insects low over water ; Swallow - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 3 pairs interacting ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20+ - Moving north

Redmires, Hammond*s Field: Cuckoo - 1 - F - rested on fencepost then flew South

Rivelin Valley: Dipper - 2 - Adult and begging juvenile

Roughwood Rec: Jackdaw - 6 ; Starling - 15+ - feeding

Silver Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - 'drumming' in lower woods ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - pair nesting in woodland south of Hollings Lane ; Willow Warbler - 8 - majority singing along disused r/way line ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing on upper-level of Pingle Lane Tip ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing on Pingle Lane Tip ; Blackcap - 10+ - singing r/way line, Pingle Lane Tip and woods either side of Hollings Lane

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 16 - good numbers singing around pit top, but fewer than recent years ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; House Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Skylark - 6 - 2 singing ; Linnet - c.20 - pairs in all suitable breeding habitat on pit top ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 8 ; Willow Warbler - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 - east ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1

Treeton Dyke: Reed Warbler - 7 - singing males ; Garden Warbler - 4 - Singing males ; Blackcap - 3 - singing males ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing male ; LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 - female

Underbank Res: Mute Swan - 1 - scarce here ; Common Sandpiper - 5 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - a pair ; Grey Wagtail - 2+ - a pair feeding young

Wadsley Common garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male carrying nesting material. ; Stock Dove - 5 ; Whitethroat - 1

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 - at west end at 14:00

Aston: Barn Owl - 1 - A57 2210hr

Baslow: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing in observer’s garden

Graves Park: Wood Warbler - 1 - singing by Charles Ashmore Road car park at 09:00 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Swallow - 2

Midhope Res: Mistle Thrush - 6 - at least one new fledgling in small trees ; Lapwing - 4 - 2 pairs defending nest sites from Jackdaws, at least one seen sitting. ; Swallow - c10 - Feeding low over water in area sheltered from winds. ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - a pair ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Curlew - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - Sub-adults SW

Orgreave Lakes: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing in small reedbed at NE corner ; Goosander - 2 - males in to roost ; Wheatear - 01-Feb - female/s ; Wigeon - 1 - male ; Greylag Goose - 2 - including bird that has been associating with female Mallard and her brood since late April ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Dunlin - 3

Redmires Middle Res: Herring Gull - 5 - 3 adults and 2 x 3cy loafing on shoreline ; Oystercatcher - 1 - chasing HGs - presumably nesting nearby

Redmires Res: Herring Gull - 18 - mostly flew W ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - flew SW ; Little Grebe - 2 - seen in open on Top Res - assume breeding attempt has failed due to heavy rain yesterday ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - 3 pairs ; Greylag Goose - 2 - pair with 12 young on Top Res ; Canada Goose - 2 - pair with 5 young on Top Res ; Stonechat - 1 - female still feeding young

Stocksbridge: Kittiwake - 1 - ad flew west at 09:50

Treeton Dyke: LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 - female still present at 18.22hrs

Tyzack*s Dam: Tufted Duck - 2 - Male and female

Apperknowle: Swallow - 1

Blacka Moor: Woodcock - 3 - Roding ; Robin - 10+