Sightings Archive

Morehall Res/ Ewden Village Area: Blackbird - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 8+ ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Pheasant - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 4

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 5 - 1 singing ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - over, harassed by corvids ; Meadow Pipit - 15+ - S/SE ; Kestrel - 1 - f/juv, hunting ; Sand Martin - 2 - SW ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Swift - 2 - S @ 0858hrs ; Willow Warbler - 1 - feeding low in hawthorn & asters ; Goldfinch - c30 - in three flocks ; Chaffinch - 4 ; Jay - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 4 - over ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 12 - S; mostly adults

Parkgate: Canada Goose - 9 - NE @ 0738hrs

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Long-tailed Tit - 10+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - in tit-flock ; Coal Tit - 1

Rawmarsh; Haugh Road: Rook - 13 - max on playing field ; Magpie - c15 - max on playing field ; Carrion Crow - 18 - max on playing field ; Black-headed Gull - 8 - on playing field ; Jackdaw - 3 - on playing field

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Chiffchaff - 4 - 1 singing ; Blackcap - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Pheasant - c30 - in adjacent field-edge; recently released

Silverwood Lagoon: Siskin - 13 - in alders and birches at Woodlaithes end of pit top

Skye Edge Fields: Ring-necked Parakeet - 12 - Two group, 7 and 5, flying to roost

Swinton: Osprey - 1 - flying west at 12.45

Thrybergh CP: Hobby - 1 ad - Moved west catching dragonflys

Broomhead Moor: Stonechat - 5 - 3 (m,f,juv) Stone Circle, 2 shooting lodge. ; Merlin - 1 - chasing pipits Oaken Clough

Callow Bank: Kestrel - 3 ; Whinchat - 1 - Area below Callow Bank

Canklow Woods: Raven - 2 - 2 south calling at 1050 ; Kestrel - 2 - 2 hunting over field

Cattis-side Moor: Kestrel - 1

Cowell Flat: Whitethroat - 1 - in roadside vegetation. ; Wheatear - 1

Ewden Height: Greenfinch - 4 - south ; Meadow Pipit - 38 - Incl 28 south ; Stock Dove - 4 - south ; Swallow - 18 - south ; Siskin - 26 - south ; House Martin - c110 - One large group with c70 breaking west and c40 south ; Starling - 5 - west ; Snipe - 1 - west ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 - South ; 319 - 1 ; Raven - 2 ; Stonechat - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 5 - Juvs ; Wheatear - 3 - Incl 1 juv ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Juv ; Greylag Goose - c130 - Flew locally west towards Langsett Res

Hathersage: Wheatear - 1 - near Cattis-side

Low Common: House Martin - 20+ - feeding over and some landing in field, dry, no crop.

Middlewood: Tern sp (Common/Arctic) - 1 - 1 low over houses on Rockley Road, Middlewood at 15:30 heading N.

Midhope Res: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - Juvenile ; Siskin - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1

North Lees: 319 - 1

Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Siskin - 5 - low to S @ 1050hrs

Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 12 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Merlin - 1 - Female/imm briefly hunting over moorland N of Middle Res ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female ; Swallow - 20 - flew SW ; House Martin - 50 - Flew W ; Crossbill - 12 - flew W ; Siskin - 15 - Flew W ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5 ; Mistle Thrush - 8 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 20 - Flew W ; Meadow Pipit - 25 - Flew SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - Ad arrived from NE

Rivelin Dams: Cormorant - 4

Skye Edge Fields: Ring-necked Parakeet - 15 - Group flying to roost

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 4 ; Swallow - 4 ; Robin - 14 ; Greenfinch - 12 ; Blackbird - 15 ; 319 - 2 ; Kestrel - 1