Sightings Archive

Stone Moor/stocksbridge: Blue Tit - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Rook - 12 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Magpie - 2

Ughill Moors: Linnet - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4+ ; Skylark - 2+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; Red Grouse - 1+ ; Curlew - c4 ; Greylag Goose - 6+ - on pool at former quarry ; Canada Goose - c2 ; Mallard - c2 ; Lapwing - 6+ - on sheep pasture ; Golden Plover - 1 - with lapwings ; Pheasant - 1+ ; 319 - 1

Wadsley: Brambling - 2 - singing in wood, Loxley House

Wet Shaw: Curlew - 29+ - feeding in sheep pasture ; Peregrine - 1 - swooped down on 29 feeding curlew ; Oystercatcher - 1 - feeding in sheep pasture along with curlews ; Carrion Crow - 1 - chasing peregrine ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Robin - 1

Whirlow Hall Farm: 321 - 1 - over

Wyming Brook: Blue Tit - 3+ ; Great Tit - 3+ ; Chaffinch - 4+ ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2+ ; Chiffchaff - 2+ ; Blackbird - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Wren - 3+ ; Mallard - 2 - pair ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Dipper - 2 - on the brook itself; within 100m of each other, so possibly a pair ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Goldcrest - c4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Robin - 3+ - inc a fledgling calling to parent for food

Abbeydale Golf Club: 319 - 2 - over 6th green

Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 3

Castleton: Swallow - 1 - Over top of Winnatt's Pass

Chapeltown: 319 - 5 - 11.30 Circling together over Tesco petrol station before slowly drifting apart

Dore Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling briefly near Hathersage road @ 18-00

Fox Hagg, Rivelin: Willow Tit - 1 - singing male ; Brambling - 1 - male adjacent Lodge Lane car park

Green Moor: Brambling - 6+ - Still singing ; Siskin - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Tree Sparrow - 10+

Greystones garden: Brambling - 1 - observer's garden

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: COMMON CRANE - 2 - circling low at 14:10 then drifting towards Ewden Heights

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 1 - yellow leg 828 ; Greylag Goose - 10 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1

Moscar Cross: Greylag Goose - 25 - in fields

Orgreave Lakes: Yellow Wagtail - 3 - On southern shore of Big Lake ; Whitethroat - 1 - On east side near bench ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Wheatear - 2 - On rocks by footbridge ; Goosander - 4 ; Wheatear - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - between bridges. ; Blackcap - 1 - between bridges. ; Whimbrel - 1 - on island on smaller lake, then flew north with curlew at 11.40 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - white spp. on shore of small lake ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - on small lake ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing along river

Orgreave Tip: House Martin - 2

Redmires Top Res: Mallard - 2 with 10 chicks

Rockingham Wood: Cuckoo - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1+ - singing ; Blackcap - 1+ - singing

Rother Valley Golf Course: Moorhen - c14 - 2 separate family groups of adults with 4-5 fledglings in pools next to greens. ; Swallow - 7 - 6+1 north ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 3

RVCP, Main Lake: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - Flew from the shore onto the main water sports car park

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - singles ; Mute Swan - 45 - most left w ; Gadwall - 6 - 3pr ; Tufted Duck - 8 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 2 - crow. ; Skylark - 5 - sing ; Sand Martin - 1