Sightings Archive

Big Moor: Skylark - 2 ; Goldfinch - 2

Blacka Moor: Cuckoo - 3 - 2 males calling. 1 female mobbed by up to six meadow pipits while attempting to lay eggs ; Stonechat - 4 - 1 male, 3 juveniles on Cowsick Bog ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - feeding young in nest ; Woodcock - 2 ; Tree Pipit - 2 - singing ; Stonechat - 6 - 2 separate singing males + pair with 2 juvs ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing

Blacka Plantation: Pied Flycatcher - 1 - singing male ; Lesser Redpoll - 2

Burbage Brook: Ring Ouzel - 3+

Centenary Riverside: 319 - 1 - High over constantly harassed by a crow. 11.55 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - pond ; Moorhen - 2 ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Pair feeding by river ; Whitethroat - 3 - 1 pair + 2 males singing and alarm calling. ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Jackdaw - 4 - Feeding near top pond ; Carrion Crow - 1 - With Jackdaws.

Green Moor: Little Owl - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 4 - Two adults and two owlets ; Tawny Owl - 4 - Two adults and two owlets

Greno Wood: Wood Warbler - 1 - Singing on territory

Hathersage: Kestrel - 1 - Nr Millstone Pub

Orgreave Lakes: BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Lone bird on large lake pm ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 76 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 - Still present ; Pochard - 3 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

Owler Bar: Swallow - 2+

Ramsley Moor: Chiffchaff - 5 - Also many Willow Warblers heard ; Blackbird - 2 ; Song Thrush - 4 - (1, 1, 2) ; 319 - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 2

Ringinglow: House Martin - 1+ ; Swallow - 2+

Shillito Wood: Yellowhammer - 2 - 1m, 1f ; Robin - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - m ; Great Tit - 1 ; Pheasant - 3 - 1m, 2 f ; Skylark - 1 - In fields at back of wood ; Lapwing - 1 - Field near Shillito/Ramsley

Sothall: Moorhen - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0015hr ; Oystercatcher - 1 - nocmig sound recorded over garden 0117hr

Stanage Edge, below: Curlew - 6 - seen, 4 calling ; Jackdaw - 6 ; Rook - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 20+ ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - pair carrying food ; Kestrel - 1 - m ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - m one apparently sunbathing (record shot), one carrying food

Stubley Hollow: House Sparrow - 31 ; Starling - 60 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Blackcap - 4 ; House Martin - 7 ; Swallow - 11

Thorpe Hesley: House Martin - 6

Walkley garden: Swift - 2 - Pair diving and squealing, one entered cavity and daily since 21st May.

Wharncliffe Chase: Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 8 ; Stonechat - 3 - Male and a pair on territory - possibly 6 territories in the area. ; Whitethroat - 2 - Singing ; Goldfinch - c20 ; Stock Dove - 11 - 3 singing ; Linnet - 15+ ; Swallow - 7 ; Skylark - 30+ ; Lapwing - 5 ; Starling - c200 - Feeding group incl young ; Yellowhammer - Pair - Nest building on new territory ; Cuckoo - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Redstart - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 3 ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Crossbill - 1 - flew over calling ; Great Tit - 4+ ; Blue Tit - 6+ ; Nuthatch - 5+ - adults feeding juveniles in boxes, 9 pairs in boxes in 2020

Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 3

Bar Brook Valley: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Wren - 2

Blacka Moor: Wheatear - 3