Sightings Archive

Midhope Res: Sparrowhawk - 1 female ; Mandarin - Pair ; Redshank - Pair ; Mallard hybrid - 39 - 10 adults + 29 ducklings ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2 males and a female ; Lapwing - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Linnet - 4 ; Siskin - 37 - including juvs ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 6 ; 320 - Pair ; Redwing - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ad ; Hawfinch - 1 - Call heard but not seen, only a ‘possible’

Norton Lees allotment: Dunnock - 1 - Carrying nesting material

Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 2prs ; Ringed Plover - 1 - seen in aerial display ; Little Ringed Plover - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Wigeon - 1 - drake ; Sand Martin - c50 ; Ringed Plover - 4 ; Little Ringed Plover - 7

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 11+ - at least 10m singing, 1f.

R Derwent, Grindleford - Calver Mill: 324 - 1 - Small Tortioseshell ; Mandarin - 10 pairs, + 1m ; Canada Goose - 6 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 11 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; 321 - 1 ; Goosander - 1 pair ; Wren - 3 ; 324 - 1 - Water Vole - first I’ve seen for years!

R Rother, Canklow: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 4 - 2m, 2f ; Wheatear - 2 ; Golden Plover - 5

Silver Wood: Whitethroat - 2 - first arrivals: 1 singing in hawthorns near Silverwood Test Centre, 1 singing upper-level of Pingle Lane Tip ; Willow Warbler - 6 - 4 singing along r/way line, 2 singing Pingle Lane Tip ; Blackcap - 10 - singing birds widespread in area now ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing on Pingle Lane Tip

Silverwood Lagoon: Whitethroat - 1 - singing in Hollings Lane meadows ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Wheatear - 1 - on broken ground beyond southern end of lagoon ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - singing ; Blackcap - 8 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - singing

Stannington: Rook - 6 - 3 nests in tall trees with pairs in attendance in fields below Oldfield Rd, off Long Lane

Summerley: Swallow - 3

Treeton Dyke: Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling (heard from Orgreave)

Treeton SF: Sand Martin - c150 - feeding over filter beds ; Carrion Crow - c40 ; Pheasant - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing

Treeton; Long Lane: Sedge Warbler - 1 - skulking bird singing from hedge opposite entrance to sewage works

Ughill: Curlew - 85 ; Whimbrel - 1 - still with Curlew flock

Ulley Brook Bog: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Greylag Goose - 2 - over towards Blue Man's Bower

Unstone: Blackcap - 2 - 2 males near Unstone Line path ; Nuthatch - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Wadsley Common: Goldcrest - 1 - Singing from conifer-very showy. ; Blackcap - 1 - Male on feeders. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Northwest over garden

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Cuckoo - 1 - calling

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Stonechat - 2 - males singing within 100m of each other northern rocky escarpment, one noticeably more colourful

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 5

Barkers Park: Song Thrush - 1 - feeding ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - feeding ; Magpie - 2 - feeding

Beeley Wood: Mallard - 40+ - 12 adults, 4 sets of very young ducklings on the river around Abbey Steel ; Woodpigeon - 33 ; Collared Dove - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Low in woods above railway line ; Moorhen - 1 - On river at footbridge ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 6 - Two separate pairs, one single and one other drumming at top of woods ; Jay - 6 ; Carrion Crow - 7 ; Coal Tit - 7 ; Blue Tit - 29 ; Chiffchaff - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Nuthatch - 6 ; Wren - 15 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackbird - 15 ; Dunnock - 1