Sightings Archive

Thrybergh Lane/Ravenfield Lane: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Ughill: Garden Warbler - 1 - Singing in hedgerow

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 11 - 10 males singing, 1 female ; Blackcap - 11 - singing ; Robin - 59 - singing ; Wren - 44 - singing ; Blackbird - 6 - singing ; Dunnock - 10+ - 8 singing ; Treecreeper - 7+ - 2 singing, pair with at least 3 juvs ; Willow Warbler - 31 ; Nuthatch - 6+ - 3 occupied nest boxes ; Great Tit - 50+ - 44 occupied nest boxes ; Blue Tit - 100+ - 72 occupied nest boxes, at least 20 nest boxes used by blue and great tits abandoned ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 4 - singing ; Chaffinch - 10+ - 8 singing

Agden Rocher: Redstart - 5 - 3 singing males+ pair attending nest. ; Great Tit - 1 - visiting nest with food. ; Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male singing. ; Cuckoo - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - mobbing jay. ; Lapwing - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - food carrying. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - food carrying. ; Robin - 5 - around site.

Blacka Moor: Cuckoo - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 3

Bolsterstone: Curlew - 3 ; Swallow - 2 ; Cuckoo - 2 - Calling ; Skylark - 6 - Singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Lapwing - 7 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Linnet - 1

Brincliffe edge wod: Song Thrush - 1 - Singing

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Took off then low over river moving South 12.30

Brooks Bank Farm: Lapwing - 4+ - one bird very likely sitting on eggs ; Grey Heron - 3 - poss 1 adult and 2 juvs ; Curlew - c12 - feeding and bathing in field ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - collecting inverts and taking them back to nest ; Stonechat - 1 - male perched on fence ; Mallard - 6 - all males, sunbathing ; Swallow - at least 2 - feeding over field ; Snipe - 1 - heard chipping and then later perched on a wall within a few metres of us as we walked along Mortimer Rd ; Meadow Pipit - 4+

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 1 - agitated male ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling N end ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing repeatedly at dusk

Calver: Goldcrest - 1 - gathering moss, presumably for nest ; Swift - 8 ; Swallow - 6 ; Rook - 10+ - at least 10 occupied nests, some with calling juvs

Chapeltown: Kestrel - 1 - male over trading estate

Denaby Common: Hobby - 1 - over E towards Old Denaby ; 321 - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 01-Feb ; Greylag Goose - c15 ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Lapwing - c10 - several pairs ; Woodpigeon - c120 - in fields

Ecclesfield: Swift - 30 - feeding over Wheel Lane

Edge Mount: Lapwing - 3 - adult with 2 small chicks.

Froggatt: Wood Warbler - 1 - calling from mature beeches where Stoke Brook joins R Derwent ; Great Tit - 2+ - pair feeding fledged juv

Froggatt Bridge: Mandarin - 1+ - female with 5 small chicks

Froggatt Edge: Wood Warbler - 2 - two singing in close proximity near the northern end

Handsworth garden: Stock Dove - 2 - Pair under feeders ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2 pair

Hathersage Booths: Red Kite - 1 - Soaring over Surprise View

Kimberworth Park: Swift - 8 - over Roughwood Rec

Limb Valley: Green Woodpecker - 1 - Upper Limb Valley ; Whitethroat - 1

Middleton Moor: Little Egret - 1 - v unusual here. Left to E at 10.10 ; Shelduck - 2 ; Swallow - 2 ; Canada Goose - 1

Moorwood Lane, near Stannington: Lapwing - 4 - 4 adults and 2 chicks with rushy pasture to south of Moorwood Lane.

Morehall Res: 324 - 1 - Muscovy Duck ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - on dam ; Swallow - 10+ - feeding over water and grassy dam slope ; Swift - 1 ; Mallard - c40 - all males but one female with her mate ; Mallard hybrid - 1 - one white duck ; Great Crested Grebe - 01-Feb - looked for nest but none seen ; Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Robin - 2 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Woodcock - at least 1 - roding over woodland S of Res (Carr House Farm) ; Tawny Owl - 1+ - calling

Old Denaby Flash: Red-legged Partridge - 1 - on house roof ; Tufted Duck - 3 ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing