Sightings Archive

Wharncliffe Chase + woodland fringe: Curlew - 3 - Pair on Chase together but not territorial, maybe failed breeders? Separate bird in in nearby fields. ; 321 - 1 ; Redstart - 1 - Singing from Pales Wood ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Flew into Roundabout Wood ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 ; Crossbill - 1 - Flew across Chase calling ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

White Edge Moor: 319 - 1 ; Curlew - 1

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 2 - carrying food

Bamford: Little Owl - 1

Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 - Juv ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Over. ; 319 - 1 - Soaring high ; Swift - 2 ; House Martin - 20+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing. ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male. ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing Males ; Reed Bunting - 3+ ; Stock Dove - 2

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 6 - inc 5 singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc 2 singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 16+ - in 3 flocks ; Willow Warbler - 6 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 5 - inc 4m (2 singing) ; Swift - c25 - feeding over tip ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1pr ; House Martin - 2 - over with Swifts ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Greylag Goose - 4 - over to N, 2 circling back to S ; Chaffinch - 4 - singing

New Stubbin; Roman Ridge: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Orgreave Lakes: Oystercatcher - 5 ; Sedge Warbler - 3 - Singing males

Ramsley Moor: Song Thrush - 1+ - ad collecting food plus recently fledged juv

Ramsley Res: Mallard - 1+ - f with 10 tiny ducklings

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Tawny Owl - 1 - adult roosting high in Sycamore, mobbed by Blackbirds ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - one singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - cock

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: House Sparrow - 1pr - feeding in climbing rose again. ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Collared Dove - 1 - singing

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 4+ - two pairs feeding young ; Moorhen - 2+ - pair with young ; Mute Swan - 2+ - pair and 8 cygnets ; Reed Warbler - 6+ - 3 singing, others calling in phragmites ; Reed Bunting - 3 - singing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Jay - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 5 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Swift - 4 ; House Martin - c.20 ; Coot - 4+ - two pairs with broods

Stanage North: Ring Ouzel - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 22 - Including newly fledged ; 319 - 1 ; Golden Plover - 2 ; Curlew - 6 - At least 3 pairs including young chick ; Carrion Crow - 9 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6 ; Red Grouse - 2

Summerley: Kestrel - 1

Unstone: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Pair feeding chicks at nest hole

Agden Rocher: Carrion Crow - 50 - Probably more. ; Cuckoo - 1 - Later heard calling ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Kestrel - 1 ; Curlew - 2 - Agitated by the crows nearby ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Swift - 2