Sightings Archive

Silverwood Lagoon: Chiffchaff - 7 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing

Street Lane, Hoober: Long-tailed Tit - 2prs ; Mallard - 1 - drake, on fishing pond ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing

Street, nr Hoober: Lapwing - 1 - displaying ; Linnet - 30 - in field ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Cormorant - 3 - N ; Goosander - 1 - female, NW ; Stock Dove - 5

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 9 ; House Sparrow - 18 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Skylark - 2 ; Great Tit - 17

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Mute Swan - 68 - inc 14-2cy ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Wigeon - 1 - m ; Tufted Duck - 66+ ; 319 - 2 - soaring in SE ; Kestrel - 1 ; Water Rail - 0 - seem to have gone ; Oystercatcher - 2 - flew east ; Black-headed Gull - 300+ ; Herring Gull - 2 - imm. ; Sand Martin - 15 ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - 2pr ; Tree Sparrow - 2 - call ; Bullfinch - 8 - 04/02/2002 ; Brambling - 5 - 3m2f ; Reed Bunting - 13 ; Yellowhammer - 2

Troway: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - a pair ; 319 - 2

Ulley CP: Barnacle Goose - 1

Upper Haugh; Chapel Walk: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1

Wadshelf: Swallow - 1 - 1 at farm above Wigley.

Waverley, Stephenson Road: Golden Plover - 119 ; Lapwing - 8

Wentworth Park; Mausoleum Plantation: Common Buzzard - 2 - high over, in aerial display

Wharncliffe Chase: Wheatear - 2 ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 6

Aldwarke: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ c0945hrs

Birley Edge: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing ; Lapwing - 1 - Flying over headed west; unusual here

Bolehill Flash: Tree Sparrow - 1 - By Flatts Farm

Callow Bank: Meadow Pipit - 5 - Males displaying to females ; Skylark - 2 - Singing in flight then came down to female ; Curlew - 1 - Calling

Chatsworth Park: Oystercatcher - 2 - Pair mating

Fiddler*s Elbow: Ring Ouzel - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 2 - Males. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair appeared to be starting to nest build. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Male. ; Tree Sparrow - 1 - On bird table. ; Chaffinch - 2 - Singing Males. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Both singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 4 - On bird table fat cake.

Fulwood garden: Brambling - 11 - at feeders still

Fulwood Head: Fieldfare - 62 - single party feeding in a field

Gleadless Valley LNR: Blackcap - 1 - singing in clearing by Coneygree Wood ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - singing throughout woods

Graves Park: Brambling - 3+ - Chantreyland Meadow ; Chiffchaff - 2+ - singing

Green Moor: Brambling - 6 ; Fieldfare - 1

Hangingwater garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling high and calling

Heeley City Farm: Blackcap - 2 - 2 males chasing around

Higger Tor: Ring Ouzel - 3 - 3 males disputing territory ; Chaffinch - 1 - Male ; Meadow Pipit - 8 ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male, flew along the south side of Higger Tor

Leash Fen: Stonechat - 2 - pair

Middleton Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; 320 - 15 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 - 2 pairs ; Robin - 1 - Nest-building

Orgreave Lakes: Swallow - 1 - Early morning

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 2

Porter Clough: Willow Tit - 2 - Pair, male singing at SK29266 84204

Redmires Bottom Res: Oystercatcher - 3

Shirecliffe: Brambling - 1 - single male still coming to garden feeders ; Lesser Redpoll - 12 - taking nyjer seed. numbers dropping fast this week and no mealy redpolls.

Stanage Edge: Curlew - 3 - Flying west to east and calling