Sightings Archive

Ringinglow: Red Kite - 1

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 5+ - 1 duck and 2 very small young busy feeding and 4 males one of which kept harassing the female ; Mallard - 4 - 2 pairs ; Mallard hybrid - 2 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; 319 - 1 - circling ; Starling - 2 - pair feeding young in house gutter nest

Silver Wood: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling near railway line pond at 08.00, later moved to pit top

Silverwood Lagoon: 320 - 3 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 11 ; Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 13 - singing ; House Martin - 4 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling at southern end 09.00-09.20 then moved further away towards Listerdale ; Jay - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Coot - 10+ - good productivity this year, 4 broods being fed already ; Coot - 10+ - good productivity this year, 4 broods being fed already ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 - over

Sothall: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 2310hr

Stanage Edge, below: Stonechat - 3 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3+

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 43 - 7 cygnets this morning ; Oystercatcher - 4 - 7 cygnets this morning ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - 7 cygnets this morning ; 319 - 4 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Swift - 10 ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - First record late this year ; Yellowhammer - 1M ; Reed Bunting - 4

Wadsley Common: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 12+ - 10+ singing males, 2 females incubating, 2 other nests under construction, one nest seemingly abandoned/ failed ; Tree Pipit - 4 - 3 singing males, pair observed on ground feeding ; Willow Warbler - 35+ - singing, numbers still lower than usual for the time of year ; Linnet - 2+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 4+ - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 4+ - 2 singing ; Dunnock - 8 - singing ; Wren - 65+ - singing ; Robin - 64+ - singing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Tawny Owl - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - flew over west ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair calling in woodland ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - mobbed by carrion crow ; Woodpigeon - 6 - singing

White Lee Moor: Stonechat - 2 - pair , female food carrying. ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Linnet - 11 ; Dunnock - 1+ - adult feeding young at nest in plantation.

Agden: Wood Warbler - 1 - 1 trilling in plantation opposite top of windy bank/ Mortimer road junction ; Common Sandpiper - 2+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - Pair on res ; Greylag Goose - 4 - 2+2 juvs on dam wall ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing opposite bus terminus ; Mandarin - 3 ; Mallard - 6+ - Several broods of young seen

Bingham Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Sitting on small tree stump in woods calling before flying away further into woods

Dronfield: 319 - 1 - Over Monk Wood

Frith Wood, Dronfield: Nuthatch - 2 - Pair at nest hole

Hallowes, Dronfield: Kestrel - 1 - Golf course

Linacre Res: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 12 ; Blackcap - 2

Middleton Moor: Peregrine - 1 - Male

Midhope Res: Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Curlew - 15+ - 15-20 ; Cormorant - 1 - east ; Swallow - 4 ; 319 - 1+ - 01-Feb ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3+ - 3-4 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 2 - 1 pair ; Wheatear - 2 - second photo ; Little Egret - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; House Martin - 7 - collecting mud from pebbles on the plains and taking it to the housing estate ; Shoveler - 2 - males ; Pochard - 2 - males ; Black-headed Gull - 18 - feeding on a shoal of small fish. ; Tufted Duck - 8

Owlthorpe: Lapwing - 1 - Heard not seen