Sightings Archive

Monday 22nd April 2019

• Froggatt Bridge: Redstart - 2 - pair
• Hallam Moors: Common Buzzard - 1 - Mobbed by Curlew ; Curlew - 3
• Heeley City Farm: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - feeding on elm blossom ; Jackdaw - 2 - flew west at 09:20 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Killamarsh: Greenfinch - 1 - Singing
• Longshaw: Red-legged Partridge - 1 - Only heard calling ; Cuckoo - 2 - Two calling. ; Brambling - 2
• Middleton Moor: Hen Harrier - 1 - flew through at 07:19 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Redstart - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 7 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Lapwing - 7 ; Red Kite - 1 - flew towards Coombs Dale at c09:20 ; Dunlin - 2 - dropped in at c09:15 ; Garden Warbler - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 ; Wheatear - 4 ; House Martin - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - imm dropped onto lagoon ; Black-headed Gull - 195 ; Common Gull - 2 - 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ads ; Peregrine - 1 - 2cy fem, harassing Gulls, primary missing in right wing. ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Whitethroat - 1 - song flighting ; Raven - 2
• Millhouses Spring Wood: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair, Male singing ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair. Female gathering nest material.
• Monsal Dale: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Redstart - 5
• Moscar Cross: Sand Martin - 2 - N
• Moss Valley: Song Thrush - 1 - Long Wood ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 heard - Long wood
• Norton Lees: House Sparrow - 2 - Bishopscourt Road garden. Pair copulating in fuschia bush.
• Orgreave: Grasshopper Warbler - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - White wagtail ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing males
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 02-Mar ; Redstart - 1 ; Siskin - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2
• R Derwent, Grindleford: Goosander - 4 - 2 pairs ; Mandarin - 8 - 4 pairs ; Dipper - 1 - left river bank and headed off high to the N ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - on river bank
• Ramsley Moor: Whinchat - 1 - a singing male ; Cuckoo - 2 ; Linnet - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - a pair
• Rawmarsh: Common Buzzard - 02-Mar - 2 soaring very high together @ 1140hrs; 1 W/SW @ 1200hrs ; Kestrel - 1 - soaring over @ 1140hrs
• Redcar Brook, Door Moor: Willow Tit - 1 - singing
• Redmires conduit: Merlin - 1 - One male ; Fieldfare - 1 ; Snipe - 1
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 - a pair mating
• Ringinglow: Wheatear - 1
• Rivelin Valley: 319 - 7
• Rocher Head: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male in field
• Roughwood Rec: 319 - 1 - S @ 11:10 ; Kestrel - 2 - Prob Pr, one hunting near Hudson's Rough. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Over field drifted W @ 11:45.
• Scholes Coppice: Wren - 1+ - sing ; Robin - 1+ - sing ; Blackbird - 1 - sing ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - 1 sing ; Brambling - 4+ - At least 4 calling from Scoles Wood @ Scholes Lane. ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls
• Sherriff Wood: Common Buzzard - 5 - circling ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair circling ; Raven - 1 - overhead
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mute Swan - 44 - inc 18 left w ; Egyptian Goose - 1 ; Gadwall - 5 - 2pr +1m ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Herring Gull - 2 - imm left ne ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 11 - 10 singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing