Sightings Archive

West Nab/Swan Height: Meadow Pipit - at least 4 - brief courtship display from one ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - c60 - skein flew from Peat Pits area then veered NE

White Lee Moor: Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 9+ - singing males ; Coal Tit - 10 - 6 singing males ; Robin - 6 ; Wren - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - flew in from nearby garden ; Blackbird - 1 - male ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Worrall: Skylark - 3 - Low Ash Farm ; Pied Wagtail - 2 ; Common Gull - 12 - circling towards Oughtibridge.

Agden Res: Mandarin - 12 - on Dam Wall ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling dusk ; Barn Owl - 1 - hunting dam wall at dusk

Back Tor, Derwentdale: Golden Plover - c70 - 2 tight flocks over calling ; Golden Plover - 2 - pair back on territory, feding quietly and songflighting briefly

Barkers Park: Nuthatch - 1 - Calling from park then into Redscope Pantation. ; Greenfinch - 1+ - singing ; Black-headed Gull - 17 - @ football pitches. ; Dunnock - 1 - singing from hawthorn hedge behind Redscope School.

Barlow Common: Stonechat - 1 - never seen one close to the village before; male, showing v. well ; Raven - 7 - up to 7 ; 319 - 4 ; Skylark - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Goldfinch - 4+ ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1

Barrow Hill (Wentworth): Lapwing - 2 - displaying ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing

Birley Edge: Bullfinch - 2 - 1 male; 1 female ; Yellowhammer - 2 - 2 males ; Red-legged Partridge - 1

Blackbrook Wood: Woodpigeon - 88 - 88 in flock in tops of trees

Bramley: Collared Dove - 1 - One egg on flimsy nest in observers garden. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling village.

Brownhills Lane: Curlew - 42 - Single flock landed in fields briefly before heading up to Roper Hill ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Feeding in wet flush in fields

Burncross, Chapeltown: Greenfinch - 4 ; 319 - 2 ; Starling - 20+ - 1 mimicking Curlew call

Calver: Common Buzzard - 3

Calver Bridge: Common Buzzard - 2 ; Mandarin - 1 - male flew into wood

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - now 2 singing at 1730

Cowell Flat: Dunnock - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - flew over ; Skylark - 1 ; 324 - 1 - Stoat running alongside wall ; Reed Bunting - 1

Cowell Flat/Rocher Flat: Snipe - 3+ - Males "chipping" ; Pheasant - 2 - males ; Red Grouse - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - briefly up singing and displaying ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing male ; Lapwing - 1 ; Curlew - 1 - flew over calling

Dale Dike Res: 319 - 2 - soaring and brief display stooping

Damflask Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1

Dore: Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffling from ash tree in obs garden - first in 30 years!

Dukes Road: Stonechat - 6 - 3p around Rushy Dike

Ecclesall: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male displaying overhead ; Bullfinch - 1 - in a garden on Ansell Road

Ecclesall Woods: Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Female, drumming ; Jay - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; 319 - 1

Elsecar Res: Greylag Goose - 1 - flew SW ; Gadwall - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 2 pairs displaying ; Water Rail - 1 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Cormorant - 1

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 - Pair now in residence. ; 320 - 1 - F still present. ; Mallard - 2 - Pair on shore. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - On sluice. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Along stream. ; 319 - 1 - Down in sheep paddock. ; Kestrel - 1 - Perched on set aside boundary. ; Stock Dove - 4 - On farm building. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling near road. ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - Singing Male. ; Linnet - 4 - Over.