Wednesday 23rd July
New Whittington: Red Kite - 1 at 1700h (K.Gould)
Tuesday 22nd July
Redmires Res: Whimbrel 1 over (D.Wood)
Wharncliffe Heath: Nightjar - 2 males churring; Woodcock - 2 roding (A.Hill)
Bingham Park: Pied Flycatcher - male (B.Burdett)
Monday 21st July
Wentworth Estate: Great Crested Grebe - 23, including 5 broods; Common Tern - 1; Swallow - numerous juvs (D.Stables)
Dale Dike Res: Kingfisher - 1 (P.Mella)
Cowell Flat: Whinchat - pair (A.Hill)
Canyards Hills: Common Buzzard - 1; Stonechat - male (A.Hill)
Sunday 20th July
Thrybergh CP: Dunlin - 1 adult; Common Sandpiper - 1; Common Tern - 5 adults and at least 2 juvs not yet fledged (P.Leonard)
Thrybergh Tip: Little
Grebe - at least 6 juvs; Lapwing - 38; Common Tern - 4 adults and 2
fledged juvs (presumably Thrybergh CP birds) (P.Leonard)
Aldwarke SF: Ringed Plover - 1 adult; Green Sandpiper - 4 adults; Grey Wagtail - 2; Yellow Wagtail - 1 S (P.Leonard)
Barbrook Pools: Whinchat - pair with fledged juvs; Stonechat - male; Peregrine (A.Deighton)
Middleton Moor: Yellow-legged Gull - 2nd-summer in the pre-roost; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 20; Black-headed Gull - 65 (A.Deighton)
Redmires Res: Goosander - 3 flew E; Merlin - 1; Peregrine - 1; Stonechat - 3 juvs (C.Hurst)
Strines-Agden area:
Hobby - 1 over Duke's Drive towards High Bradfield; Peregrine - female
at Agden; Common Buzzard - singles at Strines and High Bradfield;
Swallow - steady movement up Bradfield Dale and across Strines Moor
(D.Herringshaw)
Saturday 19th July
Redmires Res: Whimbrel - 4 through W; Stonechat - pair with fledged juvs (A.Deighton)
Baslow SF: Hobby - 1 flew S (D.Williams)
Ulley CP: Cuckoo - 1, first here since 2005; Kingfisher - 1; (D.Bye)
Wednesday 16th July
Kiveton Park: Hobby - 1 over N (R.Dale)
Tuesday 15th July
Ulley CP: Sedge Warbler - 1; Tree Sparrow - 2 (G.Featherstone)
Monday 14th July
Wharncliffe heath: Nightjar - male, 4 Woodcocks roding (A.Hill)
Woodhouse Washlands: Mistle Thrush - 31 (R.Twigg)
Pebley Pond: Common Sandpiper - 1, Common Tern - 1, Tufted Duck - 12, Coot - 26 (R.Twigg)
Sunday 13th JulyRedmires Red: 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Oystercatchers, 1 Little Ringed Plover (C.Hurst)
Aldwarke SF: Sparrowhawk - female tried unsuccessfully to take a Lapwing on the
ground, Green Sandpiper - 6 together (P.Leonard)
Ulley CP: 1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling, 1 Little
Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Tawny Owl, 2 Grey
Partridge (D Bye)
Saturday 12th JulyStubley Hollows: Pair
of Little Owl with one young; 10 juv Swallows; also juv
Yellowhammers, Goldfinch, House Sparrows and Mistle Thrushes (J.Sherwin)
Photograph Copyright © (C.Hurst)
Friday 11th JulyWybourn Estate: female Peregrine (C.Hurst)
Thursday 10th July
M1, junction 31: Red Kite - untagged adult drifting low S, 0725-30h (R.Dale)
Kiveton Waters: Common Tern - 1, Reed Warbler - 5 (R.Dale)
Tuesday 8th JulyUlley CP: 1 male Wheatear (first since 2004), 1 Common Tern, 3
Treecreeper (G
Featherstone)
Monday 7th July
Ulley CP: Common Tern - 1, Kingfisher - 1 (D.Woodriff)
Sunday 6th July
Orgreave Opencast: Common Sandpiper - 1 (M.Reeder)
Ulley CP: 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4ad & 2imm Common Tern, 1 Garden
Warbler (D.Bye)
Saturday 5th July
Ulley CP: Common Sandpiper - 1, Common Tern - 1 (D.Bye)
Moorgate: Hobby carrying and dispatching a
Swift on the wing (J.Middleton)
Friday 4th July
Wharncliffe Heath: Nightjar - male churring and wing-clapping, Woodcock - 4 roding (A Hill)
Wednesday 2nd July
Wharncliffe Heath: Nightjar - pair showed well on SBSG field trip, also 2+ roding Woodcock (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: Quail - 1 singing (per D.Bye)
Tuesday 1st July
Upper Derwent Valley: Crossbill - 50+ (R.Dale)
Sunday 29th JuneThrybergh Tip: GC Grebe - 4 pairs bred with at least 6 juvs,
Gadwall - 2 new broods of 5 & 6, Ringed Plover - 1,
Common Sandpiper - 1 (P.Leonard)Aldwarke: Crossbill - party of 11 low to SW calling, Black-headed Gull - 53 + 3 juvs at the sewage farm (P.Leonard)
Saturday 28th June
Redmires Res: Merlin -
1, Common Sandpiper - 2, also Peregrine at North Lees Hall and Little Owl at Agden Side (C.Hurst)
NW Moors: Bradfield -2 Spotted Flycatcher on Smallfield Lane; Agden Res - 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Spotted Flycatcher (P.Mella)
Upper Derwent Valley:
Cuckoo - juv being fed by Meadow Pipits at Slippery Stones, Crossbill -
c40 between Fairholmes and Howden Res, Green Woodpecker - juv near
Fairholmes (D.Wood)
Ulley CP: Turtle Dove - 1 singing, Common Tern - 3 (D.Bye)
Thursday 26th June
Upper Derwent Valley: Red-footed Falcon - adult female seen from Back Tor at 1pm, flew W towards the Valley (J.Hornbuckle)
Wharncliffe Wood: Crossbill - 3, Wood Warbler - 8, Spotted Flycatcher - 2 feeding young (R.Dale)
Wednesday 25th June
More Hall Res: Hobby - 1 (A.Hill)
Broomhead Res: Common Sandpiper - 2 (A.Hill)
Woodlands Valley: Crossbill - 2, Wood Warbler - 3 singing, Spotted Flycatcher - 4 (R.Dale)
Tuesday 24th June
Ecclesall Road: Hobby - 1 flew S at 8:40pm (R.Hill)
Monday 23rd June
Waverley Opencast: Whimbrel - 3 flew SW at 7:20pm (R.Twigg)
Friday 20th June
Upper Derwent Valley: Crossbill - 70+ (R.Dale)
Strines: Crossbill - 7 (R.Dale)
Upper Hollow Meadows: Stonechat - pair with 4 juvs (M.Dyson)
Rod Moor: Stonechat - male with 2 juvs (M.Dyson)
Wharncliffe Chase: Lapwing - 24 (B.Priest)
Thursday 19th June
Wyming Brook: Redstart - female with 3 juvs (K.Glossop)
Loxley Valley: Teal - 1 drake (P.Mella)
Wednesday 18th June
Harthill: Corn Bunting - 1 singing, Tree Sparrow - 20 (D.Woodriff)
Tuesday 17th June
More Hall Res: Woodcock - 6 (A.Hill)
Monday 16th June
Wheata Wood, Grenoside: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 drumming (exceptionally late), Spotted Flycatcher - 1, Crossbill - 1 over (R.Dale)
Sunday 15th June
Rother Valley CP: Arctic Skua - 1 dark phase adult flew NNE at 0950h (R.Greasley, K.Gould)
Langsett Res: Crossbill - 52 (R.Dale)
Wharncliffe Chase: Stonechat - pair with recently fledged juv, Lapwing - 16 (A.Hill)
Saturday 14th June
Upper Derwent Valley: Crossbill - 60+ in several flocks (R.Dale)
Wharncliffe Chase: Redstart - fledged young seen, (D.Woodriff)
Mayfield Valley: Curlew - 20, Lapwing - 40+ (C.Hurst)
Redmires Res: Spotted Flycatcher - 4, Siskin - 20 (C.Hurst)
Friday 13th June
R Rother, New Brimington: Willow Tit - 3+ with mixed tit flock (R.Dale)
High Green: Crossbill - heard calling over Spring Land (D.Woodriff)
Thursday 12th June
Langsett Res: Crossbill - 30 (D.Woodriff)
Wednesday 11th June
Woodcock Coppice, Ladybower Res: Pied Flycatcher - 3 pairs feeding young, Redstart - pair feeding young (R.Dale)
Langsett Res: Oystercatcher - 2 in fields east of reservoir (D.Woodriff)
Tuesday 10th June
Brightholmlee: Tree Sparrow - 1, local rarity! (R.Dale)
Monday 9th June
Fairholmes:
Pied Flycatcher - pair feeding young in nest box, Great Spotted
Woodpecker - pair feeding young, close to fledging; nest
in car park 'totem pole' (R.Dale)
Sunday 8th June
Langsett Res: Crossbill
- 7, Spotted Flycatcher - 3, Cuckoo - 1, Common Sandpiper - 1 defending
young from Jay, Common Buzzard - 2 mobbed by 4 Curlews (B.Spencer)
Redmires Res: Spotted Flycatcher - 3 singing, Tree Pipit - 1, Canada Goose - 55 (R.Hill)
Wyming Brook:
Wood Warbler - 3 singing, Spotted Flycatcher - 1 singing, Pied
Flycatcher - 1 singing, Tree Pipit - 2, Bullfinch - family party
(R.Hill)
Rivelin Hagg: Whitethroat - 3 singing, Lapwing - 3 pairs (R.Hill)
Rivelin Filters: Tufted Duck - pair (R.Hill)
Renishaw Park: Kingfisher - 2 juvs, Gadwall - 4, Great Crested Grebe - 1 (R.Dale)
R. Rother, Renishaw: Gadwall - female with 4 small ducklings, Tufted Duck - pair (R.Dale)
Markham Court reedbeds: Grasshopper Warbler - 2 reeling, Reed Warbler - 4 singing, Sedge Warbler - 3 singing (R.Dale)
Slippery Stones: Lesser Redpoll - numerous (M.Hodgson)
Saturday 7th June
Wharncliffe Chase: Redstart - 1 male, Cuckoo - 1, Lapwing - 17, (D.Woodriff)
More Hall Res: Great Crested Grebe - 3 (A.Hill)
White Lee Moor: Little Owl, Lapwing, Curlew, Kestrel - 2, Linnet - 4 (A.Hill)
Thursday 5th June
Mickleden Beck: Grasshopper Warbler - 2 reeling, Curlew - pair with small chick (R.Dale)
Low Moor, Langsett: Curlew - pair with 2 small chicks, Snipe - 2 drumming, Oystercatcher - pair (R.Dale)
Barbrook Plantation: 2 Spotted Flycatcher and 3 Redstart singing, Tawny Owl
hunting in daylight (J.Hornbuckle)Lady Canning's Plantation: female Crossbill with one juv, also singing Lesser Redpoll (D.Wood)
Wednesday 4th June
Derwent Res: Crossbill - flock of 50+ birds roaming the area this afternoon (R.Dale)
Strines: Curlew - pair with 2 small chicks, Redstart - pair feeding young (R.Dale)
Hollow Meadows: Stonechat - 2 pairs feeding young (M.Dyson)
Win Hill:
top of Parkin Clough - 2 Spotted Flycatchers, Cuckoo, 7 Whitethroats
singing south shore of Ladybower below New Barn (M.Hodgson)
Tuesday 3rd June
Burbage Moor: Woodcock - 3+ roding, Tawny Owl - 2 (N.Porter)
Monday 2nd June
Ulley CP: Oystercatcher - 6 in from W, then flew off NW; Gadwall - male; Sedge Warbler - 1 (D.Bye)
Gores Plantation, Derwent Res: Crossbill - 9+, Wood Warbler - 2 singing, Redstart - 4 singing (R.Dale)
Sunday 1st JuneLangsett: Wood Warbler - 2, Curlew - 6 (C.Hurst)
Ditch Clough, Westend: Wood Warbler - 3 singing, Spotted Flycatcher - 3, Redstart - 1 singing (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: Gadwall - male, Cormorant - 1 (D.Bye)
Padley Gorge: Wood Warbler - 2 singing, Redstart - 2+ singing, Pied Flycatcher - 2 singing (L.Sanders, P.Baines)
Saturday 31st May
Whiston: Red Kite - 1 flew NE over Moorgate at 18:35 (J.Middleton)
Agden Side: Nightjar - 1 male churring, Woodcock - 2 roding (R.Dale)
Wharncliffe Wood: Spotted Flycatcher - 2, Woodcock - one flushed, carrying at least two small chicks between its feet (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: Turtle Dove - 2 singing, the first here since 2006; Gadwall - 3, Common Buzzard - 1 (D.Bye)
Friday 30th May Redmires: Redshank
2, Golden Plover 7 - inc 1 confiding bird - see attached photo,
Little Owl 1, Merlin 1, LBB 7 NW, Swift
c.70, Stonechat 3 (R.Hill)
Photograph Copyright © (R.Hill)
Thursday 29th MayWharncliffe Chase: Cuckoo - 1, Redstart - 2,
Lapwing - 3, Yellowhammer - 4, Stonechat - 2(male and female) alarming to the
north of Pales Wood (A.Hill)
Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 3 (A.Hill)
Blacka Moor: Whitethroat 3m, Whinchat 3, Stonechat 3 (R.Hill)
Thrybergh CP: pair of Common Scoter present all morning - photo attached.
Photograph Copyright © M.Smethurst Monday 26th May
Agden: 1 Merlin, 1Snipe, 4 Linnet, 2 Tree Pipit, 1 Garden Warbler, 3 Goldfinch,
4 Mistle Thrush (C.Hurst)
Thrybergh CP: 3 pairs of Common Terns sitting eggs on the rafts, due to hatch in the next few days. A 4th pair recently
arrived. See photo.(M.Smethurst)
Photograph Copyright © M.Smethurst
Sunday 25th May
Redmires Res: Ringed Plover - 1, Cuckoo - 1, Merlin - 1 (C.Hurst)
Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 5, Spotted Flycatcher - 2 (B.Spencer)
Ughill: Golden Plover - 23 (M.Dyson)
High
Green: Crossbill - 4 north over Hall Wood, Tawny Owl - 1
adult mobbed by 4 Blackbird Spring Wood. D.Woodriff)
Saturday 24th May
Thrybergh CP: Osprey - 1 flew N this morning, low over the reservoir before being seen off by resident Common Terns (M.Smethurst)
Rocher Head: Redstart - 2, Snipe - 3 displaying, Tree Pipit - 1 (P.Mella)
Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 3 (P.Mella)
Hope: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 singing, Goshawk - 1 over, Tawny Owl - 1 recently fledged juv (R.Dale)
Raynor Clough: Woodcock - 3 roding, with 2 also roding at More Hall Plantation (A.Hill)
Friday 23rd May
Hagg Side: Crossbill - 5 (R.Dale)
Thursday 22nd MayHaywood farm Grindleford: first Tawny juv fledged from
owl box (S.Bailey)
Photograph Copyright © S.Bailey
Wednesday 21st May
Upper Derwent Valley: Crossbill - 23 at Linch Clough (R.Dale)
Padley Gorge: Wood Warbler - 1 nest-building, Pied Flycatcher - 4, Spotted Flycatcher - 1, Redstart - 3, Tree Pipit - 3 (S.Guymer)
Tuesday 20th May
Upper Derwent Valley: Marsh Harrier - adult female flew N at Shepherd's Meeting Stones (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: Oystercatcher - 4, Grey Wagtail - feeding young (D.Woodriff)
Agden Side: Stonechat - 1, Tree Pipit - 3 (P.Mella)
Monday 19th May
Elsecar Res: Common Tern - 1, Cuckoo - 1 (M.Pearson)
Langsett Res: Crossbill - 5, Cuckoo - 1 (D.Woodriff)
Wharncliffe Chase: Redstart - 5, Wheatear - 1, Tree Pipit - 3 (A.Hill)
Wharncliffe Heath: Tree Pipit - 5 (A.Hill)
Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 2 (A.Hill)
Ughill: Tawny Owl - 3 fledged juvs (R.Dale)
Stannington : Little Owl at Bingley House Riding School and another at Woodbank Road, also 3 pairs of tree sparrows and a pied wagtail at Flash Lane (M.Dyson)
Photograph Copyright © M.Dyson
Sunday 18th May
Broomhead Moor: Goosander - 2 males flew E, attacked half-heartedly by an immature Peregrine (R.Dale)
Padley Gorge: Redstart - 3, Wood Warbler - 2, Spotted Flycatcher - 2, Pied Flycatcher - 1, Tree Pipit - 1 (M.Hodgson, B Spencer)
Wharncliffe Heath: Nightjar - 1 female (D.Buttle)
Saturday 17th May
Rod Moor: Corncrake - 1 singing at dusk (D.Wood)
Blue Man's Bower: Dunlin - 1 (M.Reeder)
Redmires Res: Ringed Plover - 2 (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A.Deighton, R.Twigg - Bird Race)
Thrybergh CP: Common Sandpiper - 2 (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A.Deighton, R.Twigg)
Loscar Common: Corn Bunting - 2 singing (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A.Deighton, R.Twigg)
Pebley Pond: Hobby - 1 (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, R.Twigg)
Rother Valley CP: Common Sandpiper - 1, Oystercatcher - 2 (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A.Deighton, R.Twigg)
Denaby Common: Barn Owl - 2 (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A.Deighton, R.Twigg)
Stanage: Whinchat - 1, Stonechat - 1 (C.Hurst)
Friday 16th May
Agden Side: Nightjar - 1 male (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A,Deighton, R.Twigg)Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 8 (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A,Deighton, R.Twigg)
Derwent Res: Red-breasted Merganser - male (K.Clarkson, R.Dale, A.Deighton, R.Twigg)King's Tree: Crossbill - 2, Goshawk - soaring male had the wind put up it by a low level fly past of a Lancaster bomber ... (R.Dale)
Wednesday 14th May
Langsett Res: Crossbill - 1, Spotted Flycatcher - 1, Cuckoo - 1, Oystercatcher - pair, Common Sandpiper - 2, Snipe - 1 displaying (D.Woodriff)
Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 3, Spotted Flycatcher - 2 (M.Brew)
Slippery Stones: Raven - 8, Cuckoo - 1, Whinchat - 2, Lesser Redpoll - 2 displaying (R.Dale)
More Hall resevoir: Great Crested Grebe - 2,
Woodcock - 3 (A.Hill)
Tuesday 13th MayWharncliffe Chase: Red Legged Partridge - 2, Reed Bunting - 1, Curlew - 1 (B.Priest)
Stanley Hill:
Yellowhammer - 2, Linnet - 7+ in Gorse bushes. (B.Priest)
Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 7 singing, Spotted Flycatcher - 3 (R.Dale)
Monday 12th May
Thrybergh CP: Turtle Dove - 1 north (M.Smethurst)
Strines: Wood Warbler - 1 singing, Redstart - 2 singing, Pied Flycatcher - 1 (R.Dale)
Hollingdale Plantation: Crossbill - 3 (R.Dale)
Westend Valley: Crossbill - pair with 3 recently fledged juvs, Wood Warbler - 3, Spotted Flycatcher - 2 (R.Dale)
Alport Castles: Peregrine - pair, Raven - adult and fledged juv (R.Dale)
Sunday 11th May
Tinsley SF: Yellow Wagtail - 1 (K.Bower)
Saturday 10th May
Padley: Red Kite - one flying towards Lawrence Field at 9:00am (R.Green)
Wharncliffe Chase: Cuckoo - 3, Wheatear - 3, Tree Pipit - 17, Redstart - 7, Snipe - 1 drumming (R.Dale)
Wharncliffe Wood: Wood Warbler - 2 singing (R.Dale)
Wheata Wood: Spotted Flycatcher - 1 (R.Dale)
Friday 9th May
Hagg Side: Crossbill - 4+ (R.Dale)
Thursday 8th May
Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 8m, 3f; Redstart - 1m, 2f; Tree Pipit and Whinchat at Lawrence Field (P.Ridsdale)
Longshaw: Tree Pipit - 3 (P.Ridsdale)
Spout House Wood: Hobby - 1 over (A.Hill)
Cowell Flat: Snipe - 5 (3 drumming) (A.Hill)
Rocher Flat: Snipe - 2, Stonechat - 2 (A.Hill)
Broomhead Moor: Whinchat - 2 (A.Hill)
Crookes: Oystercatcher - 1 over at midday (B.Steel)
Grindsbrook Clough, Edale: Spotted Flycatcher - 3, Whinchat - 1 (B.Steel)
Tuesday 6th May
Blackamoor - last 5 days: Little
Owl - 1 regularly at Strawberry Lees Lane, Woodcock - 2-4 roding plus one
roding over Cricket Inn, Curlew - 1, Cuckoo - 2
singing, Whinchat: 2+ males, Wheatear - 5+ Strawberry Lees
Pastures, Grasshopper Warbler - 2 reeling, Willow Tit - pair at
Strawberry Lees Lane, Lesser Redpoll - 2 so far including one
song-flighting
Raven: 3 (J.Clarke)
Langsett Woods & Res / Low Moor: Spotted
Flycatcher 1, Garden Warbler 1, Cuckoo 2, Common
Sandpiper – 4: all on dam wall, Lapwing 12: including 3
chicks, Curlew 4, Snipe 2, Siskin 7,
Linnet 1, Redpoll 2, Bullfinch 2, Red
Grouse 3, Canada Goose 12 incl 3 chicks (D.Woodriff)
Ulley CP: 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Garden Warbler, pair of Gadwall, 2 Common
Buzzard. (D.Bye, G.Featherstone)
Broomhead moor: Red kite, 3 Buzzards, 4 Ravens and a pair of
Whinchats (A.Hill)
Monday 5th MayRedmires reservoirs:1 Short-eared Owl this evening (B.Steel)Loxley Valley: Spotted Flycatcher on branch over River Loxley near Rowell Bridge, just into SK38E, also
1 Dipper (P.Mella)
Bamford area: singing male Yellowhammer below the Edge, Little Owl
in fields between Bamford and Ladybower Dam, also Oystercatcher calling nearby
overhead at Hope (but not seen). (D.Wood)
Longshaw : Redstart 2, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker
(3 heard yaffling) (M.Snook)
Froggatt Edge: Crossbill , also Cuckoo on White Edge (M.Sherwin)
Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher 2m 1f, Redstart
3, Green Woodpecker (1 heard); Lawrence Field: Tree Pipit 4; Burbage Valley (southern end): Stonechat
1m (M.Snook)
Beeley Wood: Woodcock - 2 roding (R.Dale)
Coumes Vale: Woodcock - 2 roding (R.Dale)
Stannington: Short-eared Owl (M.Dyson)
Photograph Copyright © M.Dyson
Treeton Dyke: 2 Reed Warblers, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler (A.Deighton); Garganey (M.Reeder)
Sunday 4th MayElsecar Reservoir: Oystercatcher 1, Common Tern 2, Black Tern 2, Cuckoo 1 (D.Pickering); 1 pr Ruddy Duck and 1 Common Sandpiper (M.Pearson)
Thybergh CP: G C Grebe - 2prs, 1 with recently hatched juvs; Gadwall -
2prs + 1 hybrid drake; Common Tern - 9; Garden Warbler - 1 singing (P.Leonard)
Thrybergh Tip: L Grebe - at least 2prs; G C Grebe - 2prs; Greylag Goose -pr with 9 goslings; Gadwall - 13; Mandarin - 1 drake;
Common Tern - 2; Kingfisher - 1; Sedge warbler - 4 singing; Blackcap - 4 singing
+ pr nestbuilding; Garden Warbler - 1 singing; Whitethroat - 9 singing;
Chiffchaff - 4 singing; Willow Warbler - 8 singing. (P.Leonard)
Aldwarke SF: Shelduck - 1pr; Gadwall - 13; Tufted Duck - 17; Lapwing -
4 + juvs; Little Ringed Plover - 1; Swift - 10; Sedge Warbler - 1 singing;
Lesser Whitethroat - 1 singing; Whitethroat - 3 singing. (P.Leonard)
Blackamoor: 2 Wheatear, 2 Whinchat
singing (J.Hornbuckle)
Wyming Brook: 8 Wood Warblers, 3 Tree Pipits, Raven over the woods, also 3 Woodcock and 2 Blackcap in Fox Hagg (P.Ridsdale)
Saturday 3rd May
Redmires Reservoirs: Dunlin
- 1 displaying, Little Ringed Plover - 2, Common Sandpiper -
6, Grasshopper Warbler - 1 reeling, Merlin - 1 N, Wheatear - 2 females on Roper Hill - one of which showed some characteristics
of the Greenland race (R.Hill)
Photograph Copyright © R.HillLoxley Valley: 2 Lesser Whitethroat and 1Common Whitethroat, all singing, on path south
of river Loxley (P.Mella).
Stanage area: agitated pair of Ring Ouzels at Edge, with climbers
nearby, 4 circling Common Buzzard at Moscar (D.Wood)
Hathersage:1 male Red-breasted Merganser and 2 Dippers on the River Derwent, also 1 Tree Pipit and 1 Cuckoo on New Road, Bamford (A.Bell)
Agden Res: Common Sandpiper - 3, Tufted Duck - 1 male, Woodcock - 1 roding (R.Dale)
Friday 2nd MayWyming Brook: 2
Wood Warbler, 1 Tree Pipit, 15 Willow Warbler. Also 1 Cuckoo at
Redmires and 1 Raven Ringinglow Moor (J.Sherwin)
