Sightings Archive

Hathersage: Swift - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - Family ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Song Thrush - - heard ; Chiffchaff - 1 - heard ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - dead in rough grassland near Scraperlowe

Jordanthorpe: Barn Owl - 1 - Perched on goal post in field by Jordanthorpe Parkway

Mayfield Valley: Little Owl - 1 - near Old may House

Orgreave Lakes: Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Little Egret - 3

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Song Thrush - 1 ; Linnet - 9 - 6 N/NW; 3 N ; Blackcap - 2 - 1 singing ; Siskin - 2 - over calling ; Blackbird - 9+ - inc party of 9 mostly/all juvs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Cormorant - 2 - over from SE to N/NW ; Raven - 3 - singles low to NW @ 0810hrs; W/SW @ 0813hrs & SW pursued by crow @ 0815hrs. One returned to Liberty site & settled on floodlight @ 0847hrs

Ravenfield ponds: Swift - 4

Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 1 - over @ 1245hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - E @ 1510hrs

Redmires Bottom Res: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - Very active. Viewed from path leading from Soughley Lane end of reservoir to waterworks houses

Redmires Middle Res: Lesser Redpoll - 1

Roughwood Rec: Kestrel - 1 - Hunting over recently cut field and area of long grass and poppies adj Wingfield Road.

Roundwood Golf course: Chaffinch - 01-Feb - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Sand Martin - 8 - feeding over ; Chiffchaff - 3+ - inc 1 singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - low over, left towards Aldwarke

Sothall: Water Rail - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0143hr ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 2243hr

Stocksbridge: Crossbill - 5 - Flew over fox valley heading east

Tapton School: Swift - 200+ - at 16:30

Walkley Bank: Feral Pigeon - 1 - Adult tail sticking out of ventilation slit on stone house, Bentley Road, with sound of nestlings from within.

Barlow Brook: Kingfisher - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - three juveniles safely fledged ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 01-Feb ; Swift - 5 ; House Martin - 1 ; Swallow - 1

Firsby Res: Kestrel - 2 ; House Martin - 12 ; Swallow - c30 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Moorhen - 7 - 4 adults 3 small chicks ; Coot - 2 ; 319 - 2 - Adult feeding chick on nest ; Rook - c20 - Overhead East ; Magpie - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Jay - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing. ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Mallard - 4 ; Skylark - 4 - Singing over Wheat fields ; Woodpigeon - 12

General Cemetery, Sharrow: Chiffchaff - 1

Linacre Res: Tufted Duck - 32+ - 31 adults plus 1f with 5 small young ; Great Crested Grebe - 4+ - 2 confirmed breeding pairs:- 1 pr with 4 half-grown young & 1 nesting pair ; Moorhen - 1+ - an adult with 1 young ; Mallard - 1+ - f with 3 young

Meersbrook Park: Swift - 3 ; Swift - 3

Moss Valley, Lightwood Lane to Plumbley: Chiffchaff - 9 ; 319 - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Skylark - 4+ - Fields above Plumbley Farm ; Swift - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - heard

Orgreave Lakes: Black-tailed Godwit - 6 - Present until 06:40 when flew north ; Little Egret - 2 - 2 this morning

Redmires Res: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 40 - c. ; Herring Gull - 10 - c. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad - first of the year ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - juv ; Black-headed Gull - 11 - flew W ; Swallow - 8 - feeding around plantation by Middle Res ; Sand Martin - 1 - juv - with Swallows - first returning bird ; Crossbill - 12 - flew W in 3 parties ; Siskin - 8 - flew W - movt

Rother Valley; Canklow/Whiston: Peregrine - 1 - circling over, 1155-1205hrs

Baslow: Little Owl - 1

Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 3

Eldon Hill: Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - circling fields to E and looking to land, but spooked by farmer in ATV. Possibly same bird seen later over Smalldale and down on Middleton Moor. ; Wheatear - 3+ - 2 males, female and at least one juv, probably 2. photo male ; Wheatear - 3+ - juv ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - pair in Sycamore plantation

Ladybower Res, South arm: Common Scoter - 1 - drake

Middleton Moor: Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - largely asleep, with Curlews ; Curlew - 11