Sightings Archive

Barbrook Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 3 - 2 singing males and a female

Baslow Edge: Stonechat - 2 - Pair, with female carrying food

Bingham Park: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Male display flight followed by mating on a roof in Westwood Road S11

Brinsworth: Yellowhammer - 2 - singing males, Wood Lane ; Whitethroat - 3+ - singing birds, Wood Lane ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing males ; Carrion Crow - 2+ - 1 pair with a nest on a pylon ; Woodpigeon - 2+ - Display flights.

Cinder Hills: Tawny Owl - 1 - kee- wick calls, 11:35 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calls ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing

Cutthroat Bridge: Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Whinchat - 1 - singing male ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Stonechat - 1 - singing male ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Dronfield: Blackbird - 2 - Adult and 1 juvenile

Ecclesall: Hobby - 1 - circling over Ansell Road - briefly tangled with a Common Buzzard ; Kestrel - 1 - flew S mid-morning

Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 - Male and two females in Cross Hill garden in pine. ; Swift - 4 - Cross Hill

Ewden Height: Curlew - 10+ - Much calling, pairs in display flight plus one alarming suggesting young nearby ; Willow Warbler - 8 - Singing ; Siskin - 01-Feb ; Redstart - 1 - Singing ; Swallow - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 15+ - Some display noted ; Skylark - 2 - Singing ; Linnet - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Stonechat - 3 - At least two active nest sites. A pair taking food to one and a female to another. ; Stonechat - 3 - Another pic ; Swift - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Stoat ; Lapwing - 2 ; Cuckoo - 01-Feb ; Snipe - 2 - Chipping plus display ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Over towards Midhope Res.

Foxhill, Shaw Hill: Swift - 1

Hangingwater garden: Jay - 1 - left feeder with peanuts in bill

Hordron Edge: Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Tree Pipit - 3 - 2 singing males ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - singing male in plantation

Jack Flat: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Males singing

Little Barbrook Res: Whinchat - 1 - singing male ; Canada Goose - 2 - pair ; Mallard - 3+ - including one small chick ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - including one carrying food ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing

Load Field Road Quarry: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male singing

Lodge Moor: Rook - 25 - 16 occupied nests at top of Crimicar Lane - new rookery

Midhope: GREAT WHITE EGRET - 1 - flew west across Mortimer Road, Low Midhope at 08:37 following the course of the Little Don. ; Hobby - 1 - circling south from Midhope Hall Lane feeding on the wing.

Moorland Fringe: Nightjar - 6 - 6 with 5 churring males at three sites.

Poolsbrook Marsh: Reed Warbler - 12 - including 10 singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - calling from edge of reedbed ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing

R Sheaf, Duchess Road: Grey Wagtail - 5 - 2 pairs, 1 feeding a juvenile ; Sand Martin - 6+ - visiting nests ; 320 - 1 - male still present

Redmires Res: Sedge Warbler - 1 - song-flighting on south side of Middle Res ; Redstart - 2 - singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - singing by Bottom Res

Redmires Top Res: Mandarin - 1 - male late morning ; Little Grebe - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 3+ - pair feeding 3 chicks in SW corner ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - pair still present ; Reed Warbler - 4 - singing ; Cetti's Warbler - 1 - still singing on and off

Smithy Wood: Redstart - 1 - 1m ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - flying over with prey ; Blackcap - 1

Whitwell Moor: Song Thrush - 5 - incl. adult feeding two fledglings. ; Curlew - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 6 - Singing ; Linnet - 2 ; Goldcrest - 3 - Singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2+ - Definitely 2, possibly 3 singing. ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Siskin - 4

Aldwarke: 319 - 1 - High over Liberty Steels melting shop @12.00 ; Raven - 6 - Group interaction most of day around melting shop.

Bell Ground, Tankersley: 319 - 2