Sightings Archive

Lodge Moor: Marsh Harrier - 1 - cream crown N over road by Sportsman pub, drifted slowly across Rivelin Valley, heading over ridge towards Dungworth 19:20-19:30

Midhope Res: Oystercatcher - Pair ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; House Martin - 3 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 juv

Moscar House: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Snipe - 2 - chipping and drumming

Peat Pits: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Lapwing - 4 - adults, with 2 chicks

Rawmarsh; High Street: Swift - 10-Dec - over

Redmires Middle Res: Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Herring Gull - 7 - 1s and 2s ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2

Redmires Plantation: Stonechat - 3 - One adult and 2 juveniles in scrub away from woodland heading up to Stanage Pole

Rocher Flat: Golden Plover - 3

Silverwood Lagoon: Little Grebe - 2+ - pair feeding downy young ; House Martin - c.15

Stanage Edge: Wheatear - 2 ; Snipe - 2 - At least 2 heard in heath around Stanage Pole

Storrs: Siskin - 5 - at Green Farm ; Whitethroat - 1 - at Hazlehurst Farm

Ughill Moor: Curlew - 12

Ughill Moors: Stonechat - 1 - male and 3 fledged juvs.

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 3 - singing ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting low over heath ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Common Buzzard - 3 - over Wharncliffe Crags

Wharncliffe Wood: Redstart - 1 - singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - singing

Wragg*s Pond: Tufted Duck - 3 - males ; Moorhen - 2 - at nest

Barlborough: Swift - c110 - Very large flock, well over 110 birds flying due south.

Baslow Edge: Red Kite - 1 - Flying south along Edge

Bassingthorpe Spring: Woodpigeon - 2+ - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing

Canklow Woods: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing

Dale Dyke: Woodcock - 1 - roding at dusk.

Fulwood garden: Woodpigeon - 1+ - adult attending recently fledged (and begging) juv

Handsworth Garden: Starling - 10 - 10 juveniles feeding on bird table

Holmebrook Valley Park: Swift - 9 - Screeching above field, left of the lake. ; 324 - 1 - Brown Hare in field left of lake. Hopped into undergrowth.

Hudson*s Rough: Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 4 - singing ; Blackbird - 2+ - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing

Kimberworth Park: Swift - c12 - Remount Road adj to Oaks Lane

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Swift - 8 - Hawking low over trees ; Swift - 8 - Hawking low over trees

Norfolk Heritage Park: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flying over

Oaks Piece: Woodcock - 2 - roding at dusk.

Orgreave Lakes: Redshank - 2 - 2 on south side of smaller lake. ; Cormorant - 1 - Drying off on main lake.

Padley: Cuckoo - 2 - pair on the heath towards Surprise View car park

Shirecliffe: Swift - 4 - flying around last years nest site.

Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 5 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing ; Swift - 2 ; House Martin - 6 ; Swallow - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2+ - pair and 8 cygnets ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - c.15 - two family parties

Thrybergh: House Sparrow - 24 - Many now feeding young at feeders

Thrybergh CP: Blackcap - 3 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Swift - C80 ; Sand Martin - 20 ; House Martin - 8 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; 319 - 1

Ughill Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; Skylark - 2 - singing ; Golden Plover - 2 ; Lapwing - 10