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From the Sightings Archive you are able to search for archived sighting records which are more than 3 years old and dating back to 2011.

Monday 12th April 2021

  • Barlow Common: 319 - 2
  • Beeley Wood: Woodcock - 1
  • Blacka Moor: Wheatear - 2 - 2 males on Strawberry Lee Pastur8
  • Brincliffe Edge: Goldcrest - 1+ - Feeding in top of birch tree and singing earlier
  • Brownhills Lane: Lapwing - 7 - appeared to be on territories
  • Burbage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 4 - Two pairs
  • Cinder Hills: Kestrel - 1 - male
  • Coppice Wood: Pied Flycatcher - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1
  • Crabtree Pond: Chaffinch - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2+ - At least 2 birds calling in treetops ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - 2 males ; Moorhen - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1
  • Crosspool: Tawny Owl - 1 - in regular roost site
  • Forge Dam: Mallard - 1+ - female with 2 fresh chicks
  • Fulwood garden: Brambling - 9 - Minimum 5f and 4m around feeders
  • General Cemetery: Willow Warbler - 4+ - Still around the green space next to cemetery
  • Heeley: Sparrowhawk - 1 - over
  • Howden Res: Sand Martin - 3 - through N ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - displaying ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3
  • Hurlfield: Tawny Owl - 2
  • Ladybower Res, North arm: Oystercatcher - 2
  • Low Common: 319 - 1 - Quite low then chased by crow before soaring very high @ 15:00.
  • Malin Bridge: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig 01:18
  • Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 2
  • Midhope Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 - 16:00, new in ; Willow Warbler - 02-Mar ; Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - c30 - Feeding in fields ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; Meadow Pipit - c100
  • Midhopestones: Swallow - 2 - Settled on wires
  • Nether Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling’ for about 20 minutes in the St Andrew’s Rd area this morning
  • Norfolk Bridge: Mallard - 14 - Female with 14 young on shoals below weir.
  • Norton Lees: 319 - 2 - over Thorpe Estate
  • Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 4 - Females ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - White Wagtail ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - White Wagtail
  • Oughtibridge garden: Robin - 1m 1f - Nest box in Birch House Avenue
  • Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Male at nest box ; Siskin - 1
  • Porter Clough: Fieldfare - 50+ - feeding in fields at top of Clough Lane
  • R Porter, General Cemetery: Dipper - 2 - By the Aviva building,, spending a lot of time swimming and collecting nesting material
  • Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 2 ; Brambling - c10 ; Lesser Redpoll - Oct-15 ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1
  • Redmires conduit: Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair at conduit bridge where they nested last year
  • Redmires Middle Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 - much chasing ; Redshank - 2 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Wigeon - 1
  • Redmires Res: Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
  • Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 4 - 2m 2f, one female with a striking white nape patch, a bird seen here last week. ; Wheatear - 1 - m
  • Roper Hill: Skylark - 2 - singing ; Pheasant - 2 - males in dispute ; Pheasant - 2 - males - another photo ; Pheasant - 2 - final photo of fighting males
  • Shillito Wood: Wheatear - 2 - on fields behind ; Lapwing - 12 ; Brambling - 2 - male and female
  • Sothall: Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden
  • Ughill: Willow Warbler - 2 - singing wet shaw in wood.
  • Ulley: Skylark - 05-Jun - 3-4 singing off Guithwaite Commom lane 14.50 ; Kestrel - 2 - Possible pair . ; 319 - 1 - Hunting off Pleasley Rd near garden centre 15.00
  • Upper Common, Scholes: Lapwing - 2 - prob pair in recently ploughed field(8116) ; Woodpigeon - c300 - with at least 1 Stock Dove, feeding in field pos recently sown? ; Linnet - c100 - Still feeding in now, ploughed field. ; Carrion Crow - c40
  • Upper Derwentdale: Osprey - 1 - circling NE of Howden Res harassed by Raven, headed NW over Rocking Stones 11:15-11:20 ; Red Kite - 1
  • Wharncliffe Chase: 319 - 3 - Seen together ; Linnet - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Skylark - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Sunday 11th April 2021

  • Agden Res: Whooper Swan - 30 - at 10:00, 24 adults, 6 juvs. ; Whooper Swan - 30 - still present at 14.20hrs ; Whooper Swan - 30 - still present at 5pm ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - 1 metal ringed
  • Agden Rocher: Meadow Pipit - c100 - in fields under Rocher. ; Treecreeper - 2 - in hawthorn scrub.
  • Aldwarke SF: Common Buzzard - 2 - bird seen earlier joined by second. Both circled up & drifted off N ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Gadwall - 3prs

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