Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Long-tailed Tit - 12 - + in 2fam parties ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Bullfinch - 5 - +2.2..1 ; Reed Warbler - 3 - 2sing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - sing

Thrybergh Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 0625hrs

Tideswell Dale: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Ughill Moors: 319 - 2 ; Curlew - 2 - mobbing buzzards. ; Oystercatcher - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: 319 - 1 - Chased by 2 Carrion Crows ; Skylark - 1+ - singing

Walker Edge: Little Owl - 1 - dusk

Walkley garden: Starling - 25+ - Juveniles with few adults, still using local gardens to feed and socialise dawn to dusk.

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Mute Swan - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mallard - 2+ - 1f with 2 well-grown ducklings; 1f with 9 tiny ducklings

Wentworth Park: Whitethroat - 2 - singing, track bet Morley Pltn & Peacock Lodge ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - Female in hole/cavity of old Ash tree, E of Roman Ridge. Several Jackaws present.

Woolley Wood: Blackcap - 5 singing

Barbrook Pools: Canada Goose - 2 - 2 adults with a single small juv ; Mallard - 1 - a female with 6 small young

Barlow Common: QUAIL - 1 - singing repeatedly in the field on the east side of Bole Hill, heard from the public footpath running down the east side of the field. Grid Ref: SK336746. ; Lapwing - 1 ; Skylark - 5 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Linnet - 04-May ; Swallow - 1 ; Swift - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Big Moor: Wheatear - 1

Blacka Moor: Osprey - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 9 - mostly S males ; Wheatear - 2 - fems ; Stonechat - 5 - 3 males + ; Linnet - 7 - inc 3 m ; Song Thrush - 2 - s m ; Blackcap - 3 - s m ; Reed Bunting - 2 - males ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - s m ; Curlew - 1

Blacka Moor (Devils Elbow gate): Wood Warbler - 1 - male reeling, usual place

Burbage Valley: Woodcock - 2 - Roding ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling from plantation below Fiddlers Elbow

Calver Bridge: Greenfinch - 2

Calver Mill: Treecreeper - 1

Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 5 - 5 in the air together at 1045

Clough,Streamside: Woodpigeon - 2+ - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - Nest 8-10ft in Ash, both adults bringing food, faint calls of chicks. ; Skylark - 1 - At least one singing from adj fields. ; Wren - 2+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - family party ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls ; Yellowhammer - 2 - 1 pr,adj field.

Curbar: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Redstart - 1 - male

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 - No sign of chicks. ; Mallard - 2 - Pair on main Res. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Reed Warbler - 2 - Singing. ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Sing. ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Linnet - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Skylark - 2 - Over set aside field. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male. ; Red-legged Partridge - 1

Grindleford: Stock Dove - 1 ; 324 - 2 - Red Deer in field near Horse Hay Coppice ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard calling

Hathersage: Swift - 4

Hudson*s Rough: Woodpigeon - 1+ - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - Adults still feeding chicks,male briefly drumming on branch below nest. ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing