Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Common Tern - 2 ; 319 - 4+

Wadsley Common garden: Blue Tit - 6 - Family party. ; Swallow - 4+ - At least two young in nest in outbuilding

Wentworth: Common Buzzard - 1 - circling low over Cortworth Lane @ 1240hrs

Bassingthorpe Lane: Kestrel - 1+ - Adult male probably taking food to nest site, female and or juv(s) present, at former sports ground. ; Rook - 40+ - feeding in paddock ; Whitethroat - 2 - song and calls from hedgerows S of farm ; Skylark - 1 - singing

Clough Stream: Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing

Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Mallard - 10 - 4 Adults 1 well grown duckling and 5 new borns. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Kestrel - 2 - Calling while carrying prey. ; 319 - 1 - Sat on telegraph pole in set aside field. ; Tawny Owl - 3 - Adult and owlets calling at dusk. ; Rook - 20+ - Down on grassed area. ; Swallow - 5+ - Around houses. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing Male. ; Reed Bunting - 2+ - Calling from crops. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing Males. ; Skylark - 1 - Singing. ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing sluice Reed bed. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male.

Greystones garden: Blue Tit - 4 - Adult feeding 3 Juvs in observer's garden - 1st this year

High Low: Pheasant - 3 - 3 males very tame.

Ibbotson Wheel Dam: Mallard - 8 - Female + full brood of 7 now feathering up

Parkgate Canal Basin: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - Calling @13.00

Redmires conduit: Oystercatcher - 2 - In horse fields

Redmires Middle Res: Tufted Duck - 4 - 2m, 2f

Rivelin Valley: Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 1 ; Jackdaw - 3 ; Robin - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 5 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 2

RVCP: Common Sandpiper - 6 - party of 6 flew in together,,unusual to see that here

Shepherd Wheel Dam: Mandarin - 7 - Female and brood of 6 still together

Soughley Lane, Redmires: Greenfinch - 3

Thrybergh CP: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Canada Goose - 64 ; Mute Swan - 26 ; Common Tern - 3 ; Swift - 6 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 6 ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - Southern arm ; Red Kite - 1 - Flew west over southern arm 10:10

Tyzack*s Dam: Swallow - 6+ - Adults persistently mobbing two Magpies on the museum roof. ; Grey Heron - 2 - Adult and juv.

Ughill: Golden Plover - 2 - Pair in fields NE of Wet Shaw lane

Canklow Woods: Sparrowhawk - 1 - displaying

Foulstone Delph: Woodcock - 2+ - Roding.

Little Moor above Hathersage: Curlew - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1+

Longshaw: Nuthatch - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2

Longshaw Lake: Moorhen - 1+ - ad + 2 young ; Mandarin - 5 ; Mallard - 2+ - 1 adult with 8 ducklings, 1 with 6 ducklings

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 3 ; Common Tern - 3 ; Pochard - 18 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Adult

Padley Gorge: Robin - 1 - juv ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1

Rivelin Valley: Grey Wagtail - 4 - 2 juvs being fed ; Dipper - 1

Scraper Low: Skylark - 1

Sothall: Little Grebe - 1 - nocmig recorded 0007hr - addition to garden list ; Barn Owl - 1 - nocmig recorded over garden 0016hr ; Tawny Owl - 1 - nocmig recorded

Thrybergh CP: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Common Tern - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Common Tern - 2 - 2 together fishing from 10;43pm, noisy chasing 'courtship' ? Perching on buoys where Tern Rafts used to be moored. ; Reed Bunting - 3 - Fledglings on Dam wall path in rain. ; Swift - 20c - Over Dam.