Sightings Archive

Scholes Coppice: Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - sing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+

Stanage Edge: Short-eared Owl - 1

Stanage Edge, below: Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male in flight at 07:25 ; Snipe - 2 ; Curlew - 2 ; Red Grouse - 2 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - Parachuting song flights ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Lapwing - 10

Wharncliffe Chase: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Jay - 4 ; Stock Dove - 4 - Display ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Buzzard sp - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 50+ - 25 north + numerous displaying ; Curlew - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male ; Skylark - 30+ - Widespread display/territorial activity ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Linnet - 5 - Song ; Red-legged Partridge - 5 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Good views as it fed on the ground ; Cormorant - 1 - WNW ; Redwing - 10+ ; Fieldfare - 50+ ; Starling - 40+ ; Pied Wagtail - 3

Wharncliffe Side: Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Raven - 1 - mobbed by a carrion crow to the north of the village

Big Moor: 324 - 1 - c. 45 Red Deer

Bingham Park: Jay - 1 ; Dipper - 2

Brown Edge Farm: Red Kite - 1 - Hunting over rough pasture west of farm, harassed by Lapwings.

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 1 - Male

Callow Bank: Skylark - 5

Carhead Rocks: Skylark - 1

Castle Dyke playing fields: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - Mooching

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 2 - 2 singing

Chapeltown: Meadow Pipit - 1 - Calling over at 08:00

Cinder Bridge Field: Lapwing - 5+ - displaying

Endcliffe Park: Black-headed Gull - 16 - lower pond ; Mandarin - 6 - M&F ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing

Ewden Height: Raven - 2 ; Curlew - 23 - Roaming group calling ; 319 - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - c40 - Display plus 8 north ; Merlin - 1 - Low south 14.46 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing ; Red Grouse - 8 ; Lapwing - 16 ; Starling - c30

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 4 ; Mallard - 4 - Pair on each Res. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair over heading towards Ravenfield Park. ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On stream near road. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - On cottage roof and in paddock. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Call along stream. ; Grey Heron - 1 - Over. ; Kestrel - 1 - Hunting Over Arbour Lane. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling over set aside field. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - On wires in sheep paddock. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 1 - Single over. ; Treecreeper - 2 - Chasing in trees next to road. ; Tree Sparrow - 3 - Exploring cottage eves. ; Skylark - 2 - Singing high over site. ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Goldcrest - 1 - Close views along path. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Bullfinch - 6 ; Goldfinch - 4 ; Black-headed Gull - 40+ - Over farmland. ; Herring Gull - 1 - With BHG flock. ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - In sheep paddock. ; 324 - 3 - Bats out hunting in day light @ approx 12:00PM in woodland over wall. ; Fieldfare - 4 - In sheep paddock, with Starlings.. ; Starling - 8 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Cormorant - 1

Forge Dam: Song Thrush - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - M&F

Froggatt Bridge: Mandarin - 6 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Coal Tit - 2