Sightings Archive

Rawmarsh; Collier Brook: Bullfinch - 3 - 1pr + 1f ; Long-tailed Tit - 2prs ; Pheasant - 2 - crowing ; Treecreeper - 1 - calling ; Moorhen - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 5 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Linnet - 6 ; Song Thrush - 5 - inc 2 singing

Rawmarsh; Collier Brook marsh: Mallard - 1pr ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - female ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1pr ; Stock Dove - 1 - on adjacent pylon

Rawmarsh; Sandhill Park: Fieldfare - 2 - W, calling ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - pair + 1 singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Long-tailed Tit - 2prs

Rawmarsh; Warren Vale tip site: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing

Redmires conduit: Wheatear - 1 ; Moorhen - 1 - on tiny res at end of conduit

Redmires Middle Res: Wheatear - 3

Redmires Res: Oystercatcher - 4 - on Top Res ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Linnet - 70 - c. on Middle Res

Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 2

Ringinglow: Wheatear - 2 ; Red Grouse - 5

Rivelin Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male by Wolf Wheel ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2

Rocher Head Fields: Wheatear - 3

Roundwood Ponds: Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Water Rail - 1 - calling ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Coot - 1+ ; Gadwall - present - calling ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Moorhen - 1 - calling

Rud Hill: Lapwing - 20 - c. small flock in fields ; Golden Plover - 15 - inc. several obvious northern race birds

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; 319 - 2

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Mute Swan - 35 ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Shoveler - 2 - m ; Tufted Duck - 46 ; 319 - 4 - soar 3 in n1 in se ; Kestrel - 3 - 1-2disp ; Red Kite - 1 - drifting NW between 0851-0858 ; Water Rail - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 150+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - ad ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Sand Martin - 11 ; Wren - 12 - singing ; Dunnock - 16 - 12 singing ; Robin - 25 - 11 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Fieldfare - 1 - call ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Chaffinch - 14 - 6 singing ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr at f/stat ; Reed Bunting - 18 - around site ; Yellowhammer - 5 - inc.4 at f/stat ; Brambling - 15+ - at f/stat

Abbeydale Road: 319 - 1 over

Agden Rocher: Ring Ouzel - 1 - feeding in sheep field . ; Wheatear - 6 - feeding in sheep field . ; Stonechat - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male

Arbourthorne: Mallard - 10 - 5 pair on pond.12:00 ; Moorhen - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in trees by pond. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over at 12:05.

Baslow Edge: 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Beeley Wood: Nuthatch - 4 - Including one nest building ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2

Bents Green: House Sparrow - pair - Copulating

Big Moor: Kestrel - 1

Bole Edge Plantation: 319 - 3 - Up to three birds over plantation with two displaying.

Bole Hill Rec: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Bramley: Grey Heron - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Singles over. ; Common Gull - 1 - Eating worms on school field. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Over. ; 319 - 3 - Pair in air together high over village calling. Single through at speed.