Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Gadwall - 2

Tideswell: 319 - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Peacock butterfly ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Raven - 1

Ughill: Whimbrel - 1 - still with Curlew flock ; Curlew - 59 - inc yellow 'LA' still present ; Wheatear - 7

Wadsley Common garden: Kestrel - 1 - Circling above garden-uncommon here.

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Canada Goose - 2 - 1 on nest ; Mandarin - 1f ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Wren - 3 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair

Wharncliffe Chase + woodland fringe: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 02-Mar - Female circling low over res then pair seen later circling with Buzzards ; Skylark - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 25+ ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Wheatear - 2-3 males ; 319 - 6+ - Pairs seen circling high several times and displaying ; Stonechat - 3 pairs - Striking male near lodge ; Willow Warbler - 13 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 6 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Curlew - 1+ ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting on Chase and later mobbing Buzzard pair ; Stock Dove - 6 - One singing ; Fieldfare - 45 ; Redwing - 1 - With Fieldfare ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Lapwing - Pair - Female sitting on one egg. ; Swallow - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Only brief song/call ; Siskin - 1+

Blue Man*s Bower: Reed Bunting - 4prs+ ; Coot - 6 ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Mallard - 3prs ; Snipe - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Bolsterstone: Lapwing - 10 ; Curlew - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 10 ; Skylark - 6 ; Stonechat - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 25 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 324 - 5 - Brown Hare

Catcliffe Flash: Shoveler - 1pr ; Gadwall - 7 - 4m; 3f ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 20 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 - chasing away all comers; other bird presumably on concealed nest ; Coot - 18+ - inc at least 4 active nests ; Magpie - 1pr - one bird seen to take egg from unguarded Coot nest ; Mallard - 7+ ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Chatsworth Park: Pied Flycatcher - 4+ - At least 4 singing/calling males ; Redstart - 3 - Singing

Cross Hill, Ecclesfield: 319 - 2 - Pair circling over Hartley brook.

Frith Wood, Dronfield: Nuthatch - 1

Froggatt: Chiffchaff - 1

Hagg Lane Allotments: Greenfinch - 4 - Inc male singing ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Blackbird - 1 - Male clinging and feeding on suet ball feeder ; Robin - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Chaffinch - 2

Hay Wood: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; 324 - 2 - Red Deer

Heeley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over Chesterfield Road

High Bradfield: Redstart - 2 - singing male + female in church graveyard. ; Goldcrest - 2 - pair feeding in conifers in graveyard.

Langsett Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1

Malin Bridge: Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig 01:08

Middleton Moor: Grey Plover - 1 - Still present at 11.00am ; Grey Plover - 1 - still showing well 12.00 ; Fieldfare - 8+ ; Shelduck - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Dunlin - 1

Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - Pair ; Willow Warbler - 3 singing ; Curlew - 4+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 singing ; Crossbill - 2+ ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - Display