Sightings Archive

Burncross, Chapeltown: Swift - 06-Aug - Nesting again under eaves of house at the cemetery entrance

Edale: Cuckoo - 1 heard ; Mallard - 7 - Female marching her 6 ducklings across a field to the water ; Swift - 3 ; Swallow - 1 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 heard

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 6 ; Mallard - 4 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Over. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Carrying food. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - Pair. ; Swift - 10+ ; House Martin - 6+ - Visiting nests on cottage. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing.

Fulwood Lane: Swift - 6

Greystones garden: Blackcap - 1 - Male in observer's garden ; Blue Tit - 2 - 1 Juv 1st of the year

Heeley: Swift - 3+

Heeley Millenium Park: Chiffchaff - 1 heard

Longshaw: Chaffinch - 1 - m carrying food ; Robin - 1 - carrying food ; Mandarin - 1+ - f with 2 young on pond

Mam Tor: Linnet - 2 ; Stonechat - 1m ; Swift - 2 over

Mam Tor area: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - Heard in woods by NT Mam Nick car park ; Willow Warbler - 3+ heard ; Curlew - 1 heard ; Stonechat - 1 heard

Midhope Moor: Hobby - 2 - distant from Low Moor

Newbold, Chesterfield: QUAIL - 1 - Heard over garden last night.

Oughtibridge: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling in dead tree Birks Wood above quarries

Pike Lowe, Midhope: Red Kite - 1 - quartering Fenny Common

R Sheaf, Heeley: Mandarin - 3 - 1f with 2 ducklings - R Sheaf near the Sheaf View

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Kestrel - 2 - pair? flew S together @ 1234hrs

Redmires: Crossbill - 12 - several sightings in May - max 12 over top res

Redmires conduit: Curlew - 12 ; Lapwing - 7 - 1 Juv ; Lapwing - 7 ; Meadow Pipit - 11 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard

Redmires Middle Res: Goosander - 4 - 4 male Goosander on exposed rocks in middle res at 12.30

Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 1

Rivelin Dams: Wood Warbler - 1 - still singing, Reddicar Clough ; Cormorant - 1 - on bottom res

Silverwood Lagoon: Oystercatcher - 2 - circled lagoon then flew SW at 08.15

Totley Moss: Curlew - 2

Ulley: Yellowhammer - 3 - Singing males, 1 off Pleasley Road. ; 319 - 1 - High over, circling moving towards Brampton 14.45 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair, Ulley Brook 15.00

Wharncliffe Side: Oystercatcher - 1 - Flew over calling at 09:35

Whiston: Swallow - 15-20 - Feeding over field next to cricket ground 13.50 ; Greenfinch - 1 - Singing near motorway bridge, Doles Lane 14.15 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Linnet - 07-Aug - Off Morthen Lane. ; Whitethroat - 2 - Singing

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1

Agden Rocher: Wren - 1+ - adult feeding fledged young in holly bush. ; Red Kite - 1 - slowly heading south east @ 15.50.

Bar Brook Valley: Whinchat - 3 ; Pied Flycatcher - 6

Damflask Res: Little Ringed Plover - 1

Dronfield: Red Kite - 1 - Drifting North across Hallowes golf course ; 319 - 3 - Above Greendale then away to W

Ecclesall: Swift - 30 - c. feeding low over houses in misty and humid conditions

Graves Park: Reed Warbler - 1 ; Crossbill - 1+ - Calls heard over, heading west.

Hurlfield: Red Kite - 1 - flew high over North at 17:15.

Kimberworth Park: Swift - 1 - entering nest @Roughwood Rd SK401948 @21:20

Long Duckmanton: Hobby - 1 - one hunting adjacent to the M1 ; Red Kite - 1

Long Line: Green Woodpecker - 1 - my only record in over 80 hours birding in SK28 Apr-Jun

Longshaw: Redstart - 5 - Family group ; Redstart - 5 ; Treecreeper - 4 ; Tree Pipit - 4 ; Siskin - 1 - m ; Wren - 1+ - taking food to high nest ; Stonechat - 1 - m

Moss Valley, upper: Yellowhammer - 2+

Moss Valley, upper, Hazlebarrow area: Skylark - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Swallow - 2 ; 324 - 2+ - Meadow Brown

Norton: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Oughtibridge: Mallard - 5+ - Female with 4 well grown juvs

Ramsley Res: Chaffinch - 1+ - adult feeding 2+ fledged young