Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - call. ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing

Thrybergh Tip: Coal Tit - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Jay - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - 'ginger' juv, NE ; Grey Heron - 3 - juv/imms ; Mallard - 9 ; Gadwall - 5+ - + 6 juvs (well-grown broods of 2 & 4) ; 320 - 1 - female ; Coot - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Linnet - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Moorhen - 1pr+ - + 1 juv ; Lapwing - 1 - independent juv ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singles singing, SK4596 & 4696 ; Mute Swan - 4 - 1pr on flash + 2 SW @ 0738hrs ; Swift - c25 - feeding over ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Whitethroat - 10+ - inc 7 singing + 1 family party ; Reed Warbler - 4+ - inc 3 singing ; Blackcap - 9+ - inc 7 singing, 2 f/juvs ; Chiffchaff - 8 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing; typical WW song, finishing each phrase with a short burst of CC-like song

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 5 - male + 4 young ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - male

Fulwood: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - perched up in trees by observer's garden, then flew off E: garden first ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling and soaring over observer's garden; later seen carrying prey S

Greystones: Cormorant - 2 - Flying South over observer's garden ; Swift - 3 - over OG ; Greenfinch - 3 - Male & 2 Juveniles in OG

Little Don Valley, upper: Hobby - 1+ - 3 sightings throughout day, including a 2cy catching Northern Eggars in evening over Long Moor Edge ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - female, Laund Clough ; Stonechat - 4+ - female with at least 3 fledged juvs, Laund Clough ; Willow Warbler - 3+ - singing and feeding at Laund Clough in bracken and heather, very few small trees in valley. ; Woodcock - 1 - flushed early evening from side of track.

Orgreave Lakes: Tufted Duck - 73 ; Mandarin - 1 - Female

Outer Edge: 320 - 2 - pair on moorland pools ; Dunlin - 01-Feb - just fledged juvenile(s) seen at 2 different spots but possibly same bird. ; Golden Plover - 3+ - pair and one fledged juvenile

Sheherd*s Plantation: Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1+ ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calls ; Jay - 1 - calls ; Magpie - 1+

Stocksbridge: Swift - 2+ - back breeding - first I've had for five years or so, and twelve/fifteen years at this site.

Stubley Hollow: Blackcap - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Greenfinch - 12 ; House Sparrow - 19 ; 319 - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1+

Upper Derwentdale: 324 - 40++ - Painted Lady movement, singles on the move generally W throughout the day. Also good numbers of Northern Eggar moths on the wing.

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Nightjar - 3 - 2 males churring and female in scrub/bracken ; Tree Pipit - 4 - 3 singing ; Stonechat - 3 - Pair alarming near Wharncliffe lodge and another male singing further to the north ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Pair ; Raven - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 - Singing ; Skylark - 3 - Singing

Wharncliffe Side: Blackcap - 1 - Male singing in observers garden

Wharncliffe Wood: Nightjar - 3 - churring around new clearfell and silver birch scrub. ; Woodcock - 9 - Roding ; Tawny Owl - 3 - 2 adults and juvenile heard

Wincobank Hill: Swift - c70 - Numbers built up gradually during afternoon peaking at c70 around 7pm

Aldwarke: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 3 - SW @ 0845hrs ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - alarm calls ; Green Sandpiper - 1 - left N ; House Martin - c15 - feeding over & collecting mud from puddle ; Sand Martin - 1 - feeding over ; Ringed Plover - 1 - adult ; Pied Wagtail - 8+ - mostly independent juvs ; Linnet - 11 - inc 1 singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Goldfinch - c30 - post-breeding flock ; Kingfisher - 1 - male, by pond ; Raven - 3 - low to NE @ 0625hrs; settled on floodlight on Liberty site before dropping into stockyard area

Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Peregrine - 1 - sat on top of chimney, 0930hrs ; Cormorant - 1 - on pylon, then SW ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over stockyard

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 36 - feeding in roadside fields

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - 1 singing

Dore: Magpie - 2+ - adult pair feeding 2 fledged young