Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Reed Warbler - 3+ - 1singing along Southern arm 2 singing in Reeds, plus juveniles in reed bed.

Burbage Valley: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Singing ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Swift - 3 ; Stonechat - 6 ; Stonechat - 6 - 3 Juvs ; Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Visiting nest site ; Wren - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing

Castleton: Wheatear - 4+ - Pair with at least two young - bred

Cressbrook Dale: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 4+ - 2 pairs + ; Raven - 3 - over

Damflask Res: Oystercatcher - 4 - on shoreline in evening

Endcliffe Student Village: Moorhen - 11 - pond - 2 ads + 4 chicks (brood 3) + 5 nearly-fledged from brood 2: some taking food from parents; some helping to feed chicks

Guilthwaite: Hobby - 1 - West over Pleasley Road

Hay Dale: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

High Green: Red Kite - 1

Kirk Edge: Red Kite - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Swallow - 3 ; Swift - 1

Longshaw: 319 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling briefly in open area SW of White Edge lodge

Middleton Moor: Oystercatcher - 3 ; Curlew - 15 - numbers building before roost time ; 320 - 3 ; Shelduck - 2 - pair still with 6 chicks ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 - inc green colour ringed 2cy, presumably from Lancashire. ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Raven - 1 - independent juv mobbed by Lapwings and Carrion Crows. ; Sand Martin - 6

Monsal Dale: Little Grebe - 1 ; Dipper - 1 - juv by footbridge ; Mandarin - 4 ; Bullfinch - 2

Norton Lees: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - heard in tree at back of gardens

RVCP: 320 - 3 ; Common Tern - 2

Scholes: Whitethroat - 2 - singing,at Little Lane, W of pond,1 carrying food to probable nest in brambles ; Skylark - 2 - singing field S of former pit site ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing near farm buildings, near Scholes Lane

Stanley Moor: Little Owl - 2 - adults at roadside

Thorpe Hesley: Swallow - 7 - 2 + 5 juv at Westfield Farm

Tyzack*s Dam: 321 - 1 ; Mandarin - 9 - 3 ads, 6 juvs

Wardlow Hay Cop: Stonechat - 3 - independent juvs, presumably bred nearby, my first here. ; Redstart - 3+ - adults, plus one fledged juv. ; Willow Warbler - 6+ - singing ; Skylark - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - singing

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Coot - 1

White Rake: Wheatear - 2 - pair feeding 4-5 fledged juvs

Bole Hill, Treeton: Sedge Warbler - 3 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1

Brick Kiln Plantation: Wren - 1+ - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing from E edge ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - calls of juvs ; Great Tit - 1+ - calls of adults and juvs ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls

Curbar Edge: Red Kite - 1

Grange Park Golf Course: Garden Warbler - 1 - singing behind 8th tee ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Greasbrough Dam,Wentworth: Swallow - 4 - at least 2 fledgling being fed on wires ; House Martin - 4 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1

Hallowes, Dronfield: Red Kite - 1 - flew over observer's garden at 10:20

Heeley: Swift - 3 - Broadfield Road area

Meersbrook Park: Swift - 3

Middleton Moor: Canada Goose - 5 - 2 ads & 3 young ; Greylag Goose - 7 - inc pair with one new(ish) young ; Mallard - 9 - ad female with 8 well-grown young ; Shelduck - 8 - pair with 6 young ; Lapwing - 6 ; Oystercatcher - 4 - 2 pairs - showing much territorial behaviour between each other - perhaps the local pair v some interlopers? ; Curlew - 63 - roosted ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - ad ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 90 - c. roosted ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - ad and 2 CY ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Reed Warbler - 6 - 3 pairs ; Pied Wagtail - 18 - roosted ; Swift - 2 - flew SW