Sightings Archive

Rivelin Valley: Mandarin - 2 - adult female with 1 duckling on river downstream of Hollins Lane bridge.

Woodall Common: Red Kite - 1

Burbage Rocks: Ring Ouzel - 1 ; Siskin - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Burbage Valley: Stonechat - 6 ; Cuckoo - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1

Dukes Road: Osprey - 1 - W over Hurkling Stones, heading towards Derwentdale 17:30

Greystones garden: Long-tailed Tit - 3 - 3 juveniles in observer's garden ; Starling - 8 - 4 juveniles in observer's garden, one caught & killed by Fox ; House Sparrow - 10 - 4 juveniles ; Dunnock - 2 - 1 juveniles ; Coal Tit - 3 - 2 juveniles ; Bullfinch - 2

Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 1 - carrying food ; Song Thrush - 1 - recently fledged juv ; Robin - 1 - carrying food ; Stonechat - 5 - family group including recently fledged juvs ; Swift - 4 - feeding over moor

Redmires conduit: Hobby - 1

Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 44 - Most of cygnets lost to pike predation ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Sand Martin - 6 ; House Martin - 2 ; Swift - C40 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; 319 - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 34 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Yellowhammer - 1m

Aldwarke; Liberty Steels: Raven - 3 - presumably juvs, together on rooftops

Bar Brook Valley: Whinchat - 5 - two pairs and female south of pond. ; Stonechat - 9+ - two family groups of 4 and 5 and several singles. ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing south of pond.

Baslow Edge: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling; heard from observer’s garden

Brown Edge: Swift - 6

Cowell Flat: Tree Pipit - 1 - displaying.

Dukes Road: WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - 1 - seen distantly towards top of Abbey Brook 13:40 ; Red Kite - 1 ; 319 - 3 - 1 mobbing Red Kite the other 2 soaring high up ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ ; Golden Plover - 3+ - several adults seen plus three dead fledglings lying within impression of tyre tracks by flagstone path - looked like they had been run over by a vehicle! ; Curlew - 2 - pair apparently in distress ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - in birch trees next to entrance gate. ; Dunnock - 1 ; Stonechat - 5 - adults with 3 fledged juv's. ; Whitethroat - 1

Firsby Res: Coot - 6 ; Mallard - 6+ - F with ducklings. ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Lapwing - 2 - Pair on farmland. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 2 - Pair circling site high. ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swift - 7 - Low over farmland. ; House Martin - 4 - Over Arbour Lane. ; Swallow - 1 - Near houses. ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Blue Tit - 4+ - Chicks in nest in stump. ; Reed Warbler - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4+ ; Blackcap - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Linnet - 10+ ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing Adult ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Singing Males.

Frog Walk: Grey Wagtail - 3 - a family

Grange Park Golf Course: Coal Tit - 1+ - Gallery Bottom - adult, food to nest, in base of Hornbeam? ; Bullfinch - 2 - 1 pair, former car park. Possible nest site in bramble patch, ; 319 - 1 - low over Far Bank, N edge of park ; Kestrel - 1 - Possible pair, calls from woodland adj to 10th tees. ; Swallow - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 1+ - including 1 feeding on 17th fairway ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - feeding on 18th fairway ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing between 17th and 18th fairways

Grange Park Golf Course, Upper Kennel Wood: Grey Heron - 1 - up from edge of pond into trees ; Moorhen - 5+ - family party, 2 adults with 3+ recently fledged chicks ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1+ - nest in dead tree, calls of juv(s) and adult(s) ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing

Lady Canning*s Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Middleton Moor: Shelduck - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 3 - Singing

Orgreave Lakes: Arctic Tern - 1 - 1 briefly at 09:50.

Owlthorpe: Willow Warbler - 2 - Heard on sites C and D, but video from site D

Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Linnet - 1 ; Greenfinch - 2