Sightings Archive

West Nab: Red Kite - 1 - in field mobbed by carrion crow

Wharncliffe Chase: Wheatear - 25 - Influx overnight ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - c150 - 2 large groups (c50 + c80) plus residents singing ; Redwing - 1+ ; Curlew - 1 calling ; Linnet - 2 ; Skylark - c25 - Numerous singing ; Stock Dove - 6 ; Fieldfare - c40 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Lapwing - 4

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in observers garden

Whirlow garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; 319 - 4 - flew over ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Siskin - 6 - still hanging on

White Lee Moor: Red Kite - 1 ; Crossbill - 1 - Single female picking at gravel track

Barbrook Valley: Skylark - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - F ; Lapwing - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 - M ; Mandarin - 2

Blacka Moor: Wheatear - 2 - 2 on Strawberry Lea Pasture ; Curlew - 1 - Strawberry Lea Pasture ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male Strawberry Lea Pasture

Bowden Housteads Wood: Sparrowhawk - 4 - with 3 Buzzards

Calver Sough: 319 - 2

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 4 - 4 in the air together at 1700

Coombs Dale: Chiffchaff - 7 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Wren - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 7 ; 324 - 1 - Peacock butterfly

Coombs Dale - top: Pied Wagtail - 1

Firsby Res: Chiffchaff - 8+ - singing round site, 2 in territorial dispute near Crusade bench. ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 - also 2 completed nests ; Great Tit - 5 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3 male 1 female ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting from posts in horse paddock ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Rook - 12+ - in Rookery at Birk Lodge farm, active nests ; Nuthatch - 1 - not seen on this site before by observer. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - male and female on sluice. ; Chaffinch - 4 - 2 males fighting in tree in cottage garden, 2 females ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Magpie - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 6 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Woodpigeon - c300

Fulwood garden: House Martin - 2 - low W late afternoon ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing on and off this morning ; Mallard - 1 - male over N ; Brambling - 5 - at least (mostly males) around feeders ; Siskin - 8 - at least around feeders - photo of male ; Siskin - 8 - photo of female ; Bullfinch - 2 - pair ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - adult male again ; 324 - 2 - Small tortoiseshell and Peacock butterflies

Hail Mary/Falconer Woods: Red Kite - 1 - over S, heading towards Aughton/Swallownest 17:00 viewed from Orgreave

Hathersage: Brambling - 1 - in observer's garden

Kimberworth: Mistle Thrush - 1 - Perched on a gravestone in Masbrough cemetery at Kimberworth. ; Song Thrush - 1 - in garden

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 13 ; Lapwing - 14 ; Tufted Duck - 4

Middleton Moor plus top of Coombs Dale: Skylark - c31 ; Skylark - c31

Orgreave Lakes: Goldeneye - 7 - 3m, 4f on large lake, all ducks flushed by kite surfer this evening ; Raven - 1 - over calling ; Sand Martin - 40++ - good numbers tonight ; 320 - 6 ; Wigeon - 4 ; Pochard - 8 - 3 large lake, 5 small lake. ; Redshank - 2 ; Redshank - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3

Ramsley Moor: Stonechat - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2

Redmires: Wheatear - 2 - 2 adult male perching on mole hills over the wall on Moorland to the left. Soughley lane entrance

Rivelin Valley: Wren - 1

Shillito Wood: Reed Bunting - 1 - M

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 88 - 2 pair now sitting ; Tufted Duck - 44 ; Black-headed Gull - C500 ; Herring Gull - 8 ; 319 - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 2 pair