Sightings Archive

Carr Vale: Hobby - 1 ; Swift - 20+

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 - NE ; Grey Wagtail - 4 - W/SW together @ 0645hrs ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - 'alba' wagtail, SW ; Swallow - 5 - N/NE together (!?) ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting

Roundwood Golf course: Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2 - left W ; Herring Gull - 2 - adults, SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adult & juv, SW ; Swift - 1 - SW

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Swallow - 10+ - inc recently fledged young being fed on roofs

Baslow: Cormorant - 2 - Immature birds flying high to south at 8.15

Beeley Wood: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Nuthatch - 10+

Deepcar: Dunnock - 3 - Adults with at least one newly fledged juv

Hillsborough Park: Mistle Thrush - 11 ; Mute Swan - 6 - Pair with 4 cygnets ; Nuthatch - 2

Ibbotson*s Dam: Kingfisher - 1 - Flew downstream

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 1

Millhouses Park: Moorhen - 4 - Adult and three small young

R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - 6 - 3 juvs

R Don, Penistone Road: Goosander - 1 - juvenile (fully grown) on Steelbank Weir (/Packhorse Weir)

R Don, Stevenson Rd: Kingfisher - 1 ; Sand Martin - 6 - still around the colony

Ramsley Moor: Osprey - 1 - moving through WSW towards Baslow Edge at 11.00

Shalesmoor: Common Buzzard - 2 - over Rutland Road

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Egret - 1 - west at 09.10

Stone Circle, Broomhead: Nightjar - 0 - no sight or sound. ; Woodcock - 1 - late dusk

Tankersley Park Golf Course: Willow Tit - 1 - With a mixed tit flock moving through scrub below M1 embankment. ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Little Grebe - 2 ; Gadwall - 1 - eclipse m ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Swift - 30+ ; Sand Martin - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 24

Walkley Bank: 319 - 1 - low over rooftops and back gardens ; Swift - 1

Wharncliffe Wood: Common Buzzard - 2

Dore: House Martin - 150+ - HSBC sports ground early morning. A restless party of over 150 flying repeatedly over the playing field and perching up on the pavilion roof. Filmed by a member of the ground staff. Spectacular! ; House Sparrow - 30+ - feeding in observer’s garden

Millhouses: House Sparrow - 50+ - Springfield Rd garden

Redmires Res: Mallard - 40 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Hobby - 1 - adult hunting over Soughley Lane & Bottom Res at 07:30 ; Kestrel - 1 - Juv ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 50 - c. ; Herring Gull - 1 - 3CY ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - arrived with LBBs ; Black-headed Gull - 25 - c. ; Swallow - 40 - c. mostly SW ; House Martin - 25 - c. flew SW ; Tree Pipit - 1 - SW ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - S ; Meadow Pipit - 25 - c. first post-breeding flock around Bottom Res ; Goldfinch - 25 - c. around Bottom Res

Wharncliffe Side: Green Woodpecker - 1

Wharncliffe Wood: Spotted Flycatcher - 4+ - Adults feeding at least 2 recently fledged juvs in treetops ; Raven - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Whirlow Hall: Willow Tit - 1 - Calls heard only.

Burbage Valley: Whitethroat - 1 - ID photo ; Stonechat - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Male Red Deer, unusual sighting in the valley

Carterhall Lane: Swallow - 2

Ewden Height: Linnet - c90 - 2 large groups ; Swallow - c30 - 4 slowly south ; Meadow Pipit - c30 ; Jay - 1

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 3 - 2 adults,1 second winter ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female ; Pied Wagtail - 12+ - Catching insects on shoreline

Norwood Allotments: 319 - 4 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 ; Osprey - 1 - soaring in company with buzzards and sparrowhawks at 12:40. Left eastwards after a few minutes. ; Swift - 1 - only one left today.

Redmires Top Res: Chiffchaff - 5+ - small party feeding along the roadside bushes

Stubley Hollow: Swallow - 17 ; House Martin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Pheasant - 7 ; Pied Wagtail - 10

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - ad ; Little Grebe - 2 - ad ; Cormorant - 2