Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Egyptian Goose - 1 - in from n with 3 g/lag ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 4 - pair with nest (cob colour-ringed 593 yellow); 2 SW @ 0822hrs ; Coot - 10 ; Gadwall - c20 ; Canada Goose - 5 - inc 2 N ; Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 5 ; Pochard - 5 - 4m; 1f ; Grey Heron - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 2 territorial m; 1f ; Greylag Goose - 3 - SW @ 0822hrs ; Egyptian Goose - 1 - SW with 3 GJ & 2 MS @ 0822hrs ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - on pylon ; Jay - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 1pr ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 4 - singing ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Long-tailed Tit - 7 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 15 - inc 10 singing ; Chiffchaff - 15 - inc 11 singing; anxiety calls and bird carrying nest material ; Bullfinch - 3 ; Herring Gull - 3 - SW ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1

Whiteley Woods: Blackcap - 2 - Males, singing & territorial dispute ; Treecreeper - 1

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 1 - singing ; Wood Warbler - 1 - singing ; Siskin - 2 - males displaying ; Willow Warbler - 5 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing

Abbey Crescent, S7: Blackcap - 1 - Male singing in garden

Agden Beck: Cuckoo - 1 - singing up valley W of Mortimer Road

Agden Side: Little Owl - 1 ; Cuckoo - 3 - Singing birds

Blacka Moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - 1 reeling for over an hour ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - 1 male singing ; Snipe - 1 - Calling and flying low. ; Stonechat - 3 - 2 male 1 female ; Tree Pipit - 5 - Singing and parachuting ; Canada Goose - 2 - Flying over ; Mistle Thrush - 3

Bradfield Moors: Siskin - 1 - male in plantation ; Robin - 2 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - in Thornseat plantation ; Wren - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - over Harrison Plantation ; 319 - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Stock Dove - 2 - heard close to derelict Thornseat Lodge ; 324 - 30+ - Green Hairstreak Butterflies along track by moors and in Harrison Plantation SSSI

Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 2 - Pair

Cressbrook: Swallow - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Blackcap - 1m

Cressbrook Dale: Willow Warbler - 2+ heard

Cressbrook Mill: Grey Wagtail - 1

Damflask Res: Oystercatcher - 2 - left west am

Dukes Road: DOTTEREL - 1 - probable, flew over Brusten Croft Ridge calling 8:50 , came from Round Hill direction, heading NE parallel to Dukes Road path. ; Wheatear - 6+ - Flint Hill area

Ewden Heights: Golden Plover - 1

Firsby Res: Red Kite - 1 - Low over res cottage going S-W towards Ravenfield. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - In small mixed flock of Linnet and Chaffinch ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Linnet - c80 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 7 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Skylark - 4 ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 8

Green Moor: Brambling - 6+ - At least 4 males singing

Hathersage: 319 - 1

Holbrook Marsh: Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling

Holme Hall: Redwing - 1 - Feeding on green area on residential road. ; Blackbird - 3 - 1 male, 1 female and 1 fledgling. Male feeding fledgling.

Hunshelf Bank: Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Kiveton Community Woodland: Whitethroat - 1 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - Calling

Litton: Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - 1 heard

Malin Bridge: Dipper - 2 - in Rivelin ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Moorhen - 4