Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Reed Bunting - 1 - Female ; Pheasant - 1

Graves Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - drumming ; Long-tailed Tit - 3+

Hathersage Booths: Red Kite - 1 - soaring head into wind over mixed woodland below Millstone Edge just above Hathersage Booths.

Hurlfield: Common Buzzard - 7 - Up together over observers garden at 13:05

Kimberworth Park: 319 - 1 - soaring above Oaks Lane/Town Lane @ 11:30

Longshaw: Treecreeper - 1

Mosborough: Red Kite - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 19 - Including 2 immatures ; Whooper Swan - 19 - Left NW at 08:35 ; Dunlin - 2 - On Big Lake

Rocher Head: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Robin - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Blackbird - 1

Stanage Edge, below: Red Grouse - 2

Strines: Wren - 6 ; Robin - 6 ; Jay - 1 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Mallard - 2 ; Goldcrest - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Curlew - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Woodcock - 1 - below Wharncliffe Crags

Barbrook Res: Lapwing - 12 - 12 birds displaying over top area of old Barbrook reservoir

Botanical Gardens: Blackcap - 1 - male singing in tree below Mediterranean Garden at 13:30

Brownhills Lane, Redmires: Curlew - 45+ - Feeding and resting in fields above the lane.

Burbage Edge: 324 - 1 - Oak Eggar caterpillar

Ecclesall: Common Buzzard - 3 - inc pair displaying

Firsby Res: Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 4 - 3M 1F. ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair chasing. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing Male. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Starling - 25+ ; Grey Heron - 1

Longshaw: Curlew - 1 ; Brambling - c8

Longshaw Lake: Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mandarin - c6

Middleton Moor: Curlew - 135 - roosted ; Lapwing - 20 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Magpie - 18 - roosted ; Moorhen - 3 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead ; Pied Wagtail - 90 - c. roosted ; Stonechat - 1 - male by No. 4 lagoon

Monsal Trail: Tawny Owl - 1 - Flying between roost trees

Norwood Allotments: Blackcap - 1 - male singing subsong from privet hedge today. Presumably over-wintering bird but not seen since November.

R Wye, Cressbrook: Redshank - 1 - Redshank stood on flooded bank of River in the shallows, below crags and Hall. Unexpected location for species ; 320 - 5 - 4 Male 1 female on river between Litton Mill and Cresswell. ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 3 Male 1 female ; Little Grebe - 1 - Summer plumage ; Mandarin - 5 - 4 m 1 f, in flight

R Wye, Miller*s Dale: 319 - 7 - Soaring on thermals

Ravensdale: Marsh Tit - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 132 - Roosted this evening ; Oystercatcher - 3 - Roosted ; Fieldfare - 31 - W late afternoon, presumably to roost on moors

Silverwood Lagoon: Curlew - 1 - north at 08.00

Waverley: Golden Plover - 29 - On waste ground adjacent to AMRC ; Snipe - 1 - On waste ground adjacent to AMRC ; Lapwing - 12 - Six pairs ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair ; Skylark - 10 - At least 10 ; Lapwing - 1 - Pair adjacent to Mclaren

Wharncliffe Chase (north): Magpie - 13 - inc farmland on periphery ; Redwing - 6 ; Fieldfare - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 ; Curlew - 2 - Pair in field ; Skylark - 4 - Feeding together, brief song ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Starling - 30+ ; Lapwing - 12 ; 319 - 2 - Display ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Song ; House Sparrow - 30+

Barlow Common: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - including repeatedly singing