Sightings Archive

Poolsbrook Marsh: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing by road ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3 males + pair carrying food ; Swift - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 - overhead ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; MARSH WARBLER - 1 - singing

R Don, Aldwarke: Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Kingfisher - 2 - calling around nest site ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Redmires: Woodcock - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 2 - 2 birds calling

RVCP: Herring Gull - 85 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20 ; Common Tern - 5 - party of 5 north

Scraper Low: Skylark - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Curlew - 1

Stanage area: Curlew - 2

Stanage Edge: Kestrel - 1

Thrybergh: Pied Wagtail - 1 - Doncaster Road

Thrybergh Tip: Song Thrush - 5 - inc 3 singing, 1 alarming ; Blackcap - 6 - inc 5 singing ; Chiffchaff - 9 - inc 8 singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Goldfinch - 13 - flocks of 6 & 7 ; Whitethroat - 6 - singing ; Tufted Duck - 11 - 8m; 3f ; Pochard - 1 - drake ; Great Crested Grebe - 2prs+ - + 2 juvs carried by female ; Cetti's Warbler - 2 - singing ; Coot - 5+ - no evidence of breeding ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over to E/SE ; Stock Dove - 1 - over ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Mute Swan - 1pr+ - + 6 juvs ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Canada Goose - 12 - in noisily from N/NW; left N/NW a little later ; Gadwall - 2 - moulting drakes ; Reed Warbler - 7+ - 3 chasing through reedbed, 4+ singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singles SK4596 & SK4696, both singing ; Cormorant - 5 - N, 2 circled & dropped in, 3 continued ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - inc fledged juvs ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 1pr ; Little Egret - 1 - N/NE @ 0805hrs; presumed same bird SW @ 0840hrs ; Garden Warbler - 4 - a bumper year: 2 in vocal 'face-off' (SK462959); 1 (SK460956); 1 (SK458961), all singing

White Edge: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeling about 200 metres south of lodge

Bell Ground, Tankersley: Black-headed Gull - 10+ - One dead which was seen recently with symptoms of bird flu. ; 319 - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Swallow - 3 ; Lapwing - 7 - Incl. sitting adult and well grown juv. ; Lapwing - 11 - At least 2 active nests ; Swift - 3

Broomhill: Red Kite - 1 - circling over Hallamgate Road at 13.40 hrs - flew south-east

Fairholmes: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Nest in box fitted with camera at Ranger service now has hatched young

Frecheville: Swift - 5 - Flying at rooftop height around Alport Avenue.

Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1

Nether Edge: Swift - 2

Norton Lees: Bullfinch - 1 - male in Tamarisk bush in a front garden - Norton Lees Crescent

Parkgate: Kestrel - 1 - low over Retail World early p.m. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring high over mobbed by crow early p.m.

RVCP: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Shoveler - 1 ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - pair still with one young

Shepherd Wheel: Moorhen - 6 - 2 adults + 4 (visible) young

Shirebrook Valley: Mallard - 3 - On the Visitors Centre pond. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - Flew from Rainbows Meadows carrying a Grey Squirrel. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Female sat on the nest and male in tree close by. ; Moorhen - 5 - Singles on Carr Forge Dam, Visitors Center, and 1 with 2 young chicks on Rainbow Meadows. ; Swift - 5 - Feeding over Stone Lane ; Kingfisher - 1 - On Carr Forge Dam. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male along Stone Lane. ; House Martin - 11 - Feeding over Stone Lane. ; Chiffchaff - 15 - 10 singing males. Plus a party of 4 fresh juveniles with 1 adult bird. ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing males. ; Blackcap - 8 - Singing males. ; Goldcrest - 3 - Singing males. ; Treecreeper - 2 - Singing males. ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing male on Carr Forge Dam.

Stanage Edge, below: Woodcock - 2 - Flying NE from Dennis Knoll at 2130 and 2150

Westwood CP, High Green: Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair nesting, first record on this site? ; Swift - c30 ; Blackcap - 05-Jun ; Willow Warbler - 1

Whiteley Woods: Willow Warbler - 1 - In overgrown area directly south of Whiteley Woods House.

Wortley: Long-tailed Tit - 22 - Single group ; Swift - 3 ; House Martin - 5 ; 319 - 3

Yorkshire Bridge: Dipper - 2 - Adult feeding juvenile on R. Derwent