Sightings Archive

Poolsbrook CP: Mute Swan - 7 ; Great Crested Grebe - 10 - inc 8 ads & 2 young ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Poolsbrook Marsh: Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 6 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 3 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swift - 6 ; Long-tailed Tit - 14 - family party

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - adult, flushed by mobbing Blackbirds ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 3+ - 2 singing + female feeding fledged juv(s) ; Common Buzzard - 2 - one over from E joined a second ; Nuthatch - 2 - adults feeding together; first site record ; Blue Tit - breeding confirmed - fledged juvs ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: House Sparrow - 7 - feeding on aphids on climbing rose

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Chaffinch - 3 - singing ; Swift - c20 - feeding just above canopy ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Chiffchaff - 3 - 2 singing

Redmires conduit: Whitethroat - 3 ; Lapwing - 5 ; Curlew - 3 ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Snipe - 4+ - Several heard, and one in flight. ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Curlew - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard towards plantation

Rocher Head Fields: Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Rocher Wood: Little Owl - 1 - 1 bird hunting mid afternoon ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Redstart - 2+ - Singing males

Snake Pass: Cuckoo - 1

Thrybergh: Red Kite - 1 - low over village towards Thrybergh CP with local buzzard in attendance

Wentworth Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 7 - 3 pairs and a singing male, 2 active nests, one nest predated by stoat, all juvs killed

Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 2+ - 2 ads feeding 2 newly fledged young

Barlow Common: Raven - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Swallow - 01-Feb ; Pied Wagtail - 4 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Hathersage: Grey Wagtail - 2 - 1 adul; 1 juv by brook in village

Hathersage Moor: Cuckoo - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Haywood: 319 - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singles

Longshaw: Curlew - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Swallow - 1

Morthen: Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ 1140hrs

R Derwent, Leadmill - Grindleford: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - juvs ; Mandarin - 2 - 1f, 1 duckling ; Canada Goose - 10 ; Grey Wagtail - 2

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: House Sparrow - 3 - feeding on aphids ; Greenfinch - 1 - male

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 25 ; Greylag Goose - 26 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male on Top Res ; Little Grebe - 1 - seen amongst vegetation in south-west corner of Top Res ; Stonechat - 1 - female carrying food by Middle Res ; Whinchat - 1 - male still singing in Fairthorn Clough somewhere! ; Common Sandpiper - 6 - inc ad alarming within wood by Top Res & ad alarming by Middle Res - presumed young present ; Cuckoo - 2 - pair along conduit - mobbed by Meadow Pipit ; Curlew - 2 - pair guarding area in field along Conduit - presumed young present ; Snipe - 1 - ad again on wall along conduit ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Swift - 25 - c. Flew NW

Rowlee Bridge: Tree Pipit - 1 - Singing and song flight ; Cuckoo - 1 - Heard

Wharncliffe Chase + woodland fringe: Willow Warbler - 11 - singing ; Blackcap - 9 - 7 singing + 2 fledglings ; Linnet - 13+ - incl at least 2 juvs ; Goldfinch - 5 - incl 3 juvs ; Skylark - 10+ ; Meadow Pipit - 16+ - Incl birds food carrying and parachute song flight ; Stock Dove - 7 - Incl. juvs and pair leaving nest hole ; Starling - c150 - Numerous juvs ; Tree Pipit - 12+ - 2 singing, at least 2 juvs been fed by adults + others carrying food ; Stonechat - 7+ - Family group incl 2 juvs, pair carrying food to nest plus male singing and performing song flight also. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 20 - Post breeding group including several juvs