Sightings Archive

Walkley garden: Blue Tit - 2 - Visiting nestbox with caterpillars and suet.

Wentworth Park; Cortworth Field Plantn: Common Buzzard - 3 - soaring over together @ 0920hrs

Wharncliffe Heath: Blue Tit - 200+ - 72 occupied nest boxes ; Great Tit - 100+ - 49 occupied nest boxes

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 5+ - 2 active nests, male singing ; Tree Pipit - 5 - 4 singing on heath ; Blackcap - 10 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - 1 singing and another alarming ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing in tree tops to the south of the heath ; Willow Warbler - 20+ - singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 4 - 3 singing

Wharncliffe Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - nest on silver birch close to the River Don

Wigtwizzle: Barn Owl - 1 ; Woodcock - 2 - roding at dusk.

Baslow: Oystercatcher - 1 - Flying S over observer’s house calling

Birchen Edge: Raven - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Centenary Riverside: Blackcap - 4 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 01-Feb - calling ; House Martin - 2 - over ; Dunnock - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair feeding on river ; Mallard - 12 - 6 ducklings river ; 321 - 2 - river ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Goldfinch - 10+ - feeding family groups.

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 1 - Male. ; 319 - 1 - Call only. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swift - 5 - Low over Dam wall. ; Swallow - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 4 - All singing 2 each end of main Res. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Still present. ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing males. ; Greenfinch - 1 - Make with food on Arbour Lane. ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Skylark - 2 - Singing high over site. ; Linnet - 6 ; Whitethroat - 6+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing Males. ; Grey Wagtail - 3 - Family party on sluice. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair on farmland. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Feeding on path. ; Mistle Thrush - 5

Greystones: Swift - 3

Greystones garden: Song Thrush - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Swift - 1 - over

Leash Fen: Curlew - 1

Limb Valley: Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 3 ; Canada Goose - 2 - a pair ; Stonechat - 1+ - a male with 5 recently fledged young all lined up on a fence

Moorland fringe: Nightjar - 1 - churring briefly at 22:10

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 7 - inc 5 churring males at 4 sites

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Blackcap - 4 - 1 (SK4396); 3 (SK4296), all singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - singles SK4396 & SK4296 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 1 singing (SK4396); 2 singing + 1 (SK4296) ; Song Thrush - 6 - 1 singing (SK4396); 3 singing + 2 (SK4296) ; Willow Warbler - 12 - 11 singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calling ; Chaffinch - 4 - 1 singing (SK4396); 3 singing (SK4296) ; Swallow - 1 - feeding ; Herring Gull - 3 - S/SE ; Yellowhammer - 5 - 2 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - numerous - several family parties ; Kestrel - 1 - female, hunting ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 - over ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 01-Feb - disturbed from woodland; same or another calling from same area later ; Jay - 1

New Stubbin; Back Lane: Woodpigeon - c50 - feeding together in adjacent field

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - still present at 18:00 ; Kittiwake - 1 - On big lake from 07:00 ; Sanderling - 1 - On big lake ; Dunlin - 1 ; Peregrine - 3 - presumed pair drifted N over Treeton village, third bird at same time over Hail Mary Wood ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - small lake island ; Oystercatcher - 1 - ad and 2 chicks on small lake island ; Pochard - 2 - drakes on small lake ; Swift - 150++ - large feeding flock pm ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Adult