Sightings Archive

Burbage Valley: Garden Warbler - 1 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 ; Blackbird - 3 - 3 singing males

Canklow Woods: Sparrowhawk - 2 - pair displaying

Ecclesfield: Ring-necked Parakeet - 4 - Calling in pines in Cross Hill.garden,flew off south.

Foxhill: Swallow - 4 - Around Shaw Hill Farm nest sites ; Goldfinch - 1 - To sunflower hearts feeder

Hathersage - Baulk Lane: Swallow - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Hathersage - Green’s House: Redstart - 1m

Hathersage - woodland at Green’s Mill: Pied Flycatcher - c2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 heard

Hathersage Outseats: Siskin - 1m on garden feeder

Jack Flat: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 - Pair plus another singing male ; Redstart - 1 - Singing ; Cuckoo - 1 - Calling

Lawrence Field: Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing and in display flight from Rowan at south end of field

Leash Fen: Garden Warbler - 1 - in tree, singing, along northern edge of the fen ; Whinchat - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Swallow - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 1

Orgreave Lakes: Little Egret - 1 ; Little Egret - 1 - second picture ; Wheatear - 4 ; Wheatear - 4 - second picture ; Gadwall - 2 - 1 pair on river below weir. ; Canada Goose - 6 - Pair with goslings on main lake ; Sedge Warbler - 3

Overstones Farm: Curlew - 3 ; Lapwing - 4+ ; Rook - 1 ; Pheasant - 1

Padley Gorge: Redstart - 1 - Singing male

Ramsley Res: Tree Pipit - 2 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4+ ; Siskin - 1 ; Swallow - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 2

Rawmarsh; Bellows Road: Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing from mobile mast

Rawmarsh; High Street: Sparrowhawk - 1 - soaring over @ 1310hrs

Redmires Res: Tree Pipit - 1 - singing from dead tree by track to Stanage ; Stonechat - 2 - pair alarming by track ; Wheatear - 1 - Female flew across Soughley Lane late afternoon

Redmires Top Res: Cuckoo - 2 - calling and chasing ; Cuckoo - 2 - One pursued by Mipit ; Common Sandpiper - 4 - territorial disputes ; Common Sandpiper - 4 - display flights ; Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Greylag Goose - 6+ - 3 pairs with total of 19 chicks ; Canada Goose - 4+ - 2 pairs with total of 7 chicks ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 3 pairs ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing from beech scrub

RVCP, Main Lake: BITTERN - 1 - a single bird picked up flying south at great height,continued south well over Killamarsh and well into Derbyshire before slowing back and heading towards Pithouse West. the first time I've observed this species flying at such height,

Sharrow Vale: Grey Wagtail - 1 - in full song by Porter Brook PH

Sheffield University: Peregrine - 2+ - 4th chick hatched

Silverwood Lagoon: Whimbrel - 1 - calling bird in at 05.35, rested on northern shoreline for 5 mins then flew north

Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 1 - singing by Cowper Stone ; Stonechat - 3 - pair with food by Hook's Carr ; Whinchat - 1 - male by Dennis Knoll ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling by Dennis Knoll ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Snipe - 2 - separate birds 'chipping' ; Curlew - 2 - pair displaying by Dennis Knoll ; Hobby - 1 - adult flew N at 12:36 hrs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 - flew W

Stanage Edge below: Meadow Pipit - 1

Stanage Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 - calling

Surprise View: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling n trees north of Car Park

White Path Moss: Curlew - 6 - 3 pairs ; Canada Goose - 6 - inc a pair with at least one young ; Mallard - 2 - males ; Reed Bunting - 2 - pairs in softrush ; Wheatear - 1 - showing characteristics of Greenland Wheatear ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Meadow Pipit - 34 ; Skylark - 4

Wyming Brook: Mistle Thrush - 1 - carrying food ; Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing & flitting through trees

Agden Side: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk.

Bar Brook Valley: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male, calling from treetop ; Whinchat - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Redstart - 1 - Male ; Willow Warbler - 4 - Singing ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing ; Skylark - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 3

Barbrook Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 - Seen and heard ; Pied Flycatcher - 3 - 2M 1F

Blacka Moor: Wood Warbler - 1 - still c. 500 yards bellow piper Gate