Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Tip: Blue Tit - 8 ; Dunnock - 4 ; Goldfinch - 8+ ; Woodpigeon - 12 ; Collared Dove - 8 ; Magpie - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 4 ; Jackdaw - 5 ; Mute Swan - 2 - 1 sat on nest. ; Shoveler - 3 - All males.

Upper Midhope: Fieldfare - 70 - Over East

Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 4

Wharncliffe Side: Whooper Swan - 2 - over observers garden

Wincobank Wood: Common Buzzard - 2

America Lane, nr Hoober: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Barlborough: Red Kite - 1 - Passing slowly over the village flying east.

Blackburn Meadows NR: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing 08.15 ; Cormorant - 1 - Successful hunt on canal between Holmes and Iccles lock. ; Canada Goose - 3 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Iccles lock ; Kestrel - 1 - Male hunting over site 13.55 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pair ; Greenfinch - 2 - Pair ; Chaffinch - 3 - 1 pair, 1 male singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - 1 male, 1 female ; Robin - 1 - Singing ; Goldfinch - 2 - Pair, male singing ; Pheasant - 3 - 2 males, female flushed.

Calver: Swallow - 1 - low S ; Dipper - 2 - pair under bridge ; Rook - c35 - 25 active nests by river near Mill ; Mandarin - 2 - males over S

Calver Bridge: Oystercatcher - 1 - Flying south calling

Catcliffe: Whooper Swan - c40 - flying NW calling at 09.02 (seen from Orgreave).

Cowell Flat: Woodcock - 2 - roding dusk

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 3 ; Moorhen - 2 - Squabbling. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - Calling. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Flew from nest ; Siskin - 1 - over calling. ; Bullfinch - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing Males. ; Chiffchaff - 3 - All singing. ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Tree Sparrow - 2 - At bird table. ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - On fat cake.

Freeman*s Spring wood: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Gorrell Spring wood: Jay - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 2 - 1pr?Low over Walkworth Wood calling. ; Pheasant - 2 - calls ; Stock Dove - 1 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffle ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls from Lower Kennel Wood. ; Skylark - 5+ - At least 1 singing, All @ Watson's Tip. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - Feeding among cattle in field S of Barber Wood. ; Wren - 6+ - sing ; Robin - 6+ ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 1 - sing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 10 - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing @ Ockley Bottom. ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 4+ - sing ; Great Tit - 2+ - sing ; Nuthatch - 2 - sing ; Treecreeper - 3 - 2 sing ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 1+ ; Jackdaw - 2 ; Carrion Crow - 4+ ; Chaffinch - 3+ - sing ; Greenfinch - 1 - sing ; Bullfinch - 2+ - inc pair in Barber Wood@ Thundercliffe Grange.

Green Moor: Brambling - 11+ - 8 males some in full summer plumage and singing - territorial behaviour ; Yellowhammer - 5 - Feeding together ; Brambling - 11+ - photo ; Brambling - 11+ ; Brambling - 11+ ; Brambling - 11+ ; Greenfinch - 5 ; Tree Sparrow - 6

Hangingwater garden: 319 - 1 - over S mobbed by carrion crow

Hollin Bank Car Park: Crossbill - 2 - Male and female. Male singing. ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Brambling - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Wren - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - Male ; Curlew - 1 - Overhead. Flew toward Stanage Edge. ; Blackbird - 1 - Male ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male