Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Swift - 5+ - High over heath

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 ; Wood Warbler - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Flew upstream while calling ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 - M&F ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 6 - singing, plus others ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Blackcap - 5 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - singing ; Chaffinch - 10+ - singing ; Robin - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - near Fox Holes ; Wren - 8 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 4+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling and drumming ; Wood Warbler - 2 - 1 crossing main path at head height dozens of times over 20 mins ; Curlew - 1 - heard W ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1+ - seen at different times near same spot ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 - calling

Burbage South edge: Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Stonechat - 1pr+ - #NAME?

Carr Vale NR: POMARINE SKUA - 1 - adult pale morph flew over north at 08:45

Greystones: Swift - 1 - Over observer's garden

Grindleford Station: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - flew up brook, calling

Lawrence Field: Cuckoo - 2 - inc one singing ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Blackcap - 1 - singing, SE edge

Middleton Moor: Ringed Plover - 4 ; Sanderling - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 3

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 2 - males churring at two sites

Offerton Moor: 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Curlew - 1 heard ; Wheatear - 1 ; 324 - 8+ - Green Hairstreak butterflies

Orgreave Lakes: Turnstone - 2 ; Greenshank - 1 ; Ringed Plover - 5 ; Black Tern - 5 - at 12:15 ; Black Tern - 5 - Still on main lake at 13.15 ; Black Tern - 4+ - at least 4 still present at 16:45. ; Black Tern - 5 - Left high to the east 21.20. ; Turnstone - 2 - present tonight ; Black Tern - 5 - still on large lake 20:00 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - adult with 3 chicks on island ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2cy on Tern rail ; Goosander - 1 - drake ; Turnstone - 2 - Early morning then north ; Turnstone - 2 - Early morning then north ; Turnstone - 2 - second photo ; Black Tern - 5 - At midday, presumably birds at RVCP earlier. ; Barnacle Goose - 1 - In from north then rested on island before no doubt continuing it's long journey north! ; Great Crested Grebe - 32 - 27 on Big Lake + 5 on Small Lake inc 3 newly hatched young ; Turnstone - 2 - Ad and 1st yr

Overdale: Kestrel - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Padley Gorge: Willow Warbler - 5 - singing ; Siskin - 2+ ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Pied Flycatcher - c10 - singing ; Redstart - 3 - 1pr + 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 3+ - 1 singing; 1pr + fledged juvs harassed by crows ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2prs+ - nestbuilding; possibly a third pair ; Treecreeper - 2-3prs - 2 with nests ; Woodcock - 2 - flew up valley through woodland, calling ; Goldcrest - 02-Mar - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Ramsley Moor: Stonechat - 2 - family party of 2 adults & 3 recently fledged young ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - a singing male ; Garden Warbler - 1 - a singing male

Redmires conduit: Cuckoo - 1 - Heard calling from trees on 'upside' of conduit. Heard today and Wednesday in same area.

RVCP, Main Lake: Black Tern - 5 - Present from 0855-0945hr at least ; Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1

RVCP, Meadowgate Lake: Ringed Plover - 1 - Left to the East

Shatton: Mandarin - 1f ; Raven - 1 ; Peregrine - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Mute Swan - 2+ - resident pair with at least 3 cygnets. Only came out of reeds briefly so difficult to count ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling at southern end ; House Martin - 15

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 32 - inc.18left n