Sightings Archive

Thursday 2nd May 2019

• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Pair ; Mute Swan - 2 - Still present. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Over calling early morning. ; Little Grebe - 1 - Chased from reed bed by Coot. ; 319 - 1 - Perched on telegraph pole. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at dawn. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Calling from woodland. ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Over with food. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Feeling in leaf litter. ; Blackbird - 8 - All males. ; Linnet - 3 - Over. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 3+ - Singing Males @ dawn. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing Male on hedgetop. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing from opposite ends of main Res. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Blackcap - 6 ; Wren - 3 - Singing. ; Robin - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 2 - Set aside field. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - imm over.
• Grindleford: Swift - 1 ; House Martin - 10+
• Harthill Res: Reed Warbler - 5 - inc 4 singing males ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - m ; Chiffchaff - 7 - 6 singing males ; Reed Bunting - 4 - pr + 2 singing males ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing male ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 - pr displaying, 2 nesting birds ; Swallow - 1 ; House Martin - 8 - over ; Gadwall - 2 - over, plus 5 Mallard, only ducks present, odd ; Robin - 2 - Ad with juv ; Mute Swan - 2 - one sitting on new nest site this yr
• Hathersage: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Killed & ate pigeon in observer's drive & hedge ; Dipper - 2 - adult with fledged young ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female returned to kill,l but local cats had left little
• Kimberworth: Bullfinch - 1 - Male on sunflower heart feeder.
• Lawrence Field: Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Stonechat - 1pr ; Cuckoo - 1 - male, pursued by MPs ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling from SE edge ; Tree Pipit - 4 - inc 2 singing, SE edge
• Middle Common: Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Skylark - 1 - sing
• Millhouses: Swift - 6 - Earliest I've seen here in 40 years.
• Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 - Adult ; Common Tern - 1 - Adult
• Padley Gorge: Mistle Thrush - 1 - carrying food ; Nuthatch - 4 - inc 1pr & 1 singing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1pr - on brook ; Pied Flycatcher - 12 - 10m; 2f ; Siskin - 2+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Redstart - 4 - singing ; Treecreeper - 5 - inc 1 singing & 1 entering nest under bark of dead oak ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - f, disturbed from ground, flew off carrying prey ; Mandarin - 3 - 2m; 1f, by brook ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - carrying food ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Coal Tit - numerous ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 ; Redstart - 2 ; Siskin - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - moorland fringe ; Cuckoo - 2 - moorland fringe ; Tree Pipit - 2 - moorland fringe ; Tawny Owl - 1 - roosting
• Rivelin Dams: Canada Goose - 4prs ; Tufted Duck - 2prs ; Mallard - 3+ - 2m; 1f + brood of 4 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Rockingham Wood: 319 - 2 - Soaring high over N end of wood. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling @ 10:55am ; Woodpigeon - 2+ - sing ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Robin - 1+ - sing ; Blackbird - 1 - sing ; Blackcap - 2 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pr ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 2pr ; Mute Swan - 3 - res.pr+1m