Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mute Swan - 1 - Feeding in front of sluice reed bed. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - Adult low over site. ; 319 - 2 - Circling over farmland. ; Swallow - 6+ - At crop height. ; House Martin - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over calling. ; Corvid - 25+ - Mixed flock of Rooks and Jackdaws over. ; Linnet - 5

Manor Fields Park: Kestrel - 1 - hunting over at 06:30. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - with weak song briefly. ; Chiffchaff - c5 - inc 1 singing early AM. ; Stock Dove - 2 ; Mallard - 9 ; Moorhen - 6 - 2 Ad 4 well grown young on pond ; House Martin - 2 - between 06:20-07:40

Moscar Cross: Peregrine - 1 - juv over ; Swift - 2 - with House Martins ; House Martin - c30

Orgreave Lakes: Mediterranean Gull - 1 - ad winter again 09:30 ; Raven - 1 - Flew SW at 16:30 ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - Adult winter on tern rail mid afternoon ; Greenshank - 1 - Early morning ; Dunlin - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Snipe - 2

Peak Forest: Whinchat - 1 - At roadside, near Greenknoll Farm ; Wheatear - 3

Redmires Res: Cormorant - 1 - flew S ; Ringed Plover - 1 - flew N at 08:18 hrs ; Black-headed Gull - 60 - tight-knit group arrived from the south and dropped onto Bottom Res ; Common Gull - 1 - 2nd year with BHGs ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 - c. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - ad still with LBBs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male over Roper Hill ; Common Buzzard - 3 ; Kestrel - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - by Top Res ; Chiffchaff - 10 - around res perimeter ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Siskin - 85 - flew N/NE ; Swallow - 20 - flew N ; House Martin - 6 - flew N ; Meadow Pipit - 10 - flew SW

Ringinglow: Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 1

Rocher Flat: Wheatear - 2 - on walls and fences ; Whinchat - 1

Silverwood Lagoon: Common Buzzard - 6 - in the air together over The Close at 08.10

Stoney Middleton: Swallow - 6

Strines Moor: Kestrel - 1 - fem/imm hunting from fenceposts in rain

Stubley Hollow: Chiffchaff - 4 ; Blackcap - 1F ; Swallow - 14 ; Jackdaw - 33 ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Treeton Dyke: Red-crested Pochard - 1 - eclipse drake mid-morning

Hope: House Martin - 10 - Flying around the house where they bred, on main road on eastern end of village. Adults and juvs.

Linacre Res: Goldfinch - 140 - feeding together in uncut hayfield ; Mandarin - 28 ; Tufted Duck - 21 ; Great Crested Grebe - 8

Middlewood: Swift - 3 - over Ganton Rd in heavy rain for about 20mins. 1st here since 12th when local birds left. ; House Martin - 6 - including birds still feeding at nest on Overton Rd.

Orgreave Lakes: Shelduck - 3 - 2 ad and 1 juv ; Little Egret - 8 - Came in at 07:10 6 left after disturbed by juv Peregrine ; Cormorant - 14 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 1 - North ; Mediterranean Gull - 1 - Adult winter in at 09:05 ; Shoveler - 2 ; Peregrine - 1 - Juv

Rawmarsh: Swift - 2 - N in miserable conditions @ 1256hrs

Redmires Middle Res: Dipper - 1 - Never seen a Dipper in this location before

Walkley Bank: Blackbird - 5+ - two adults feeding 3+ recently-fledged juveniles in garden.

Baslow: Swallow - 23 - On telephone wires “grounded “ by early morning mist

Birley Edge: Starling - 300 - On telegraph wires on Skew Hill - flew off forming a 'mini-murmation'

Chapeltown: Swift - 6 - North 10am

Fulwood garden: Crossbill - 1+ - Over calling, heading E just before 9 this morning ; Cormorant - 5 - Party of adults N, second record in 20 years ; Swift - 8 - Feeding with House Martins overhead ; House Martin - 12 - Hawking with Swifts ; Swallow - 2 - Over S ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Over NW ; Siskin - 1 - Smart male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Feeding in bushes ; Long-tailed Tit - 10 - Family party ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Male

Green Moor: Siskin - 10+ ; Tree Sparrow - 15+ - Daily this month

Hudson*s Rough: Grey Heron - 1 - Pos juv, took off from edge of pond, NE @10:05. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ - calls and song ; Blue Tit - 1+ - calls and song ; Great Tit - 1+ - calls and song ; Nuthatch - 1+