Sightings Archive

Sunday 5th May 2019

• Cinder Bridge Field: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing
• Coombs Dale: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Redstart - 1 - Singing
• Cowell Flat: Meadow Pipit - 3+ ; Lapwing - 2+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Curlew - 2+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1+ ; Snipe - 1 - drumming male flying high ; Blackbird - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Crabtree, Norwood: 322 - 1 - Alexandrine Parakeet - Male feeding from garden fatball feeder
• Dale Dike Res: Blackcap - 1+ ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 2+ ; Kestrel - 1+ - hunting ; Wren - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1+ ; Robin - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Jackdaw - c30 - chasing off carrion crows ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Mallard - 3+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2+ ; Oystercatcher - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1+ - 2 heard singing in area today ; Swallow - 2+ ; Canada Goose - 2 - flew over from Strines Res. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Great Tit - 2 ; House Sparrow - 1+
• Damflask Res: Common Sandpiper - 1
• Dukes Road: Curlew - 2+ ; 324 - 3+ - Mountain Hares ; Red Grouse - 3+ ; Swallow - 3+ ; Meadow Pipit - 2+
• Eyam: Whitethroat - 1 - Singing
• Firsby Res: Coot - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mute Swan - 0 - No sign and nest empty. No great surprise due to off road motorbikes and a 4 x 4 full of dogs in set aside field. ; 319 - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - carrying food. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Treecreeper - 1 - beak full of insects. ; Dunnock - 2 - Feeding young ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Goldfinch - 2 ; Linnet - 4 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Still present and singing. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 4 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair on sluice. ; Swallow - 6 - Through together.
• Hathersage: Swift - 1 - Over Roslyn Road
• Hope: Swift - 1 - Over church
• Kimberworth: Blackcap - 1 - Female looking for insects in soil freshly turned over earlier in the day.
• Linacre Res: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing
• Longstone Edge: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing on wooded slope below Longstone Moor
• New Stubbin; Back Lane: Whitethroat - 4 - singing ; Swallow - 3 - 2 N; 1 W ; Linnet - 5 - over ; Lapwing - 6+ - + brood of 4 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - males (one singing) ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - N ; Stock Dove - 2 - W ; Pheasant - 4 - 1pr + 2m ; Red-legged Partridge - 6 - 2prs + 2 singles ; Cormorant - 1 - high to NE @ 0636hrs ; Skylark - 15 - inc 3+ singing. Lots of set-aside this spring
• Oughtibridge: Swift - 2 - at the bottom of Church Street
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - N ; Herring Gull - 2 - N ; Swallow - 4 - N ; House Martin - 2
• Rivelin Filters: Canada Goose - 6 - e pair with 4 small goslings
• Roundwood Golf course: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 2
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4