Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Swallow - 5 - thro n ; Wren - 11 - sing ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - thro w ; Blackbird - 17 ; Blackcap - 9 - sing ; Whitethroat - 1 - brief song 0810 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 5 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; House Sparrow - 1 - #NAME? ; Tree Sparrow - 2 ; Chaffinch - 8 - 6sing ; Linnet - 3 ; Goldfinch - 13 ; Bullfinch - 2 - mf ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Yellowhammer - 1

Ughill Moors: Golden Plover - 80 - in fields at Wet Shaw ; Curlew - 37 - feeding in field Wet Shaw

Upper Coppice Wheel, Rivelin Valley: Brambling - 2 - both singing

Wharncliffe Chase: Cuckoo - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1+

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - Singing near pond ; Brambling - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 20+ - Singing ; Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing

Wheata Wood: Brambling - 1 - n car park, nearly summer plumage ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1+ ; Blackcap - 1+ ; Chiffchaff - 1+

Agden Rocher: Ring Ouzel - 4 - Mobile in field from path at W end of crags

Agden Side: Ring Ouzel - 8+ - hillside behind T Junction at 11:40

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male

Barlow Common: Blackcap - 2 - pair ; Swallow - 2 - pair ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; 319 - 02-Mar ; Jay - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1

Bradfield: Blackcap - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Siskin - 2 - males ; Mandarin - 1 - male ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2

Brincliffe Edge Wood: Jay - 1

Brogging Moss: Willow Warbler - 6 - A number of birds singing away around area. ; Whimbrel - 1 - Single bird flying at height calling as it moved north west.

Burbage: Oystercatcher - 1 - flew east, observer's first here

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 - ad male ; Canada Goose - 1 - still sneaking around ; Gadwall - 20+ ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Pochard - 3 - 2m, 1f ; Little Grebe - 2+ - a pair + trilling ; Black-headed Gull - 15

Chapeltown Park: Brambling - 1 - Male singing and calling

Cinder Hills: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - 1pr, 1 carrying nest material.

Dog Kennel Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3+ ; Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+

Dronfield: Brambling - 1 - Female on front garden feeder

Green Moor: Brambling - 10+

Hangingwater garden: Siskin - 2 - m & f

Longshaw: Brambling - 1 - m near pond

Low Flat Farm: Swallow - 2

Middleton Moor: Little Gull - 1 - an immature present for 10 mins from 10.10 ; Oystercatcher - 2 - a copulating pair ; Wheatear - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - a pair ; 320 - 2 - a pair

Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1pr in adj field - Low Common ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Mallard - 5+ ; Tufted Duck - 4 - 2pr ; Coot - 1+ ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 5 ; Common Scoter - 1 - Female from 07:10 ; Common Sandpiper - 3 - On Small Lake early morning