Sightings Archive

Orgreave Lakes: Sand Martin - C150 ; Swallow - C20 ; Ringed Plover - 1

Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c100 - c50 Rocher Flat, c50 Peat Pits.

Pebley Pond: Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 8 ; Canada Goose - 6 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4

R Don, Effingham St: Herring Gull - c100 - mainly 2cy and 3cy, one adult, on weir ; Canada Goose - 9 - 7 on weir plus resident pair, female incubating. ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - 2cy and 3cy's ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ad and 3cy

Ravensdale: 319 - 1 - Being mobbed by Raven ; Song Thrush - 1

Redmires Middle Res: Dunlin - 2 - one male, other only seen briefly

Scholes Coppice: Stock Dove - 2 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 3+ - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Wren - 7 - singing ; Robin - 6 - singing ; Blackbird - 7+ - at least 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - 2 singing 1 feeding @ Raspberry Plantation ; Blue Tit - 1+ - 1 singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 4+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Collared Dove - 1 - singing adj to wood ; House Sparrow - 1+ - adj to wood ; House Sparrow - 1+ - adj to wood

Stanage Edge: Raven - 2 - Hunting in rock crevices ; Wheatear - 2 - Both females ; Ring Ouzel - 2 ; Curlew - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 - Violent attack on ravens driving them from area ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Red Grouse - 2

Strawberry Lea: Wheatear - 3 ; Skylark - 3 - Display flight ; Curlew - 1 - displaying flight

Thorpe Hesley: Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Taking food to nest site, and performing hover. ; Swallow - 1

Tideswell Dale: Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Wren - 3 - a pair, plus one other ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1

Totley: Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair mating

Ughill: Whimbrel - 1 - still with Curlews ; Curlew - c50

Upper Common, Scholes: Red-legged Partridge - 3 ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - male singing in scrub.

Upper Ox Close Wood: Stock Dove - 1 - singing

Walkley Cemetery: Stock Dove - 1 - singing in upper branches of mature oak.

Wardlow Mires: Pied Wagtail - 1

Water-Cum-Jolly-Dale: Mute Swan - 2 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Mallard - 4m ; Coot - 3 ; Song Thrush - 1 - with food ; Chiffchaff - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - male singing near Dam Pond

Woodseats: 319 - 1 - Circling over Homebase searching for prey ; )

Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 2 ; Pied Flycatcher - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 2

Birley Edge: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 2 - Pair on newly seeded field ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Stock Dove - 5 - on newly seeded field ; Chiffchaff - 1

Bowden Housteads Wood: Blackcap - 7 - Singing males in NW section ; Chiffchaff - 6 - singing males in NW section ; Nuthatch - 4 - 4 Territorial pairs in NW section. One pair taking food to nest hole ; Coal Tit - 2+ - 1 pair feeding young

Bradfield Dale: Tree Pipit - 2 - singing to west of Holes Wood.

Chee Dale: Blackcap - 1 - female by Blackwell cottages ; Dipper - 1 ; Mandarin - 3 - males

Cinder Bridge Field: Lapwing - 6 - on spring-sown field; 1 displaying ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - over ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 2

Cowell Flat: Cuckoo - 1 - Calling and seen in flight. First sighting of year, cheered me up ; Lapwing - 1

Derwent Edge: Red Kite - 1

Grange Park Golf Course: Mallard - 2 - pair in Brick Kiln Plantation ; 319 - 1 - High over Walkworth Wood