Monday 12th May
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)
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)
Loxley 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)
Padley area: in the Gorge - Pied
Flycatcher M 7 F 2; Lawrence field - Pied Flycatcher M 1, Redstart - M 2
(fighting) F 2, Tree Pipit 1; Longshaw - Cuckoo 1, Redstart - M 1 F1, Pied
Flycatcher M 1(S.Bailey)
Rocher Head: Wheatear - 3 (R.Dale)
Bent Hills: Wheatear - 1 (R.Dale)
Barbrook Plantation: Cuckoo - 1 calling
(J.Hornbuckle)
Redmires Reservoirs: 2 x Woodcock roding, Grasshopper warbler reeling, Golden plover, Lapwing 10, Curlew 3 (G.Stride)
Upperdale: 1 singing Pied Flycatcher, 3 singing Redstarts, also Barn owl
hunting at Foolow (R.Twigg)
Wharncliffe chase: Raven, 4 female and 3 male Wheatears, 2 Tree pipits and
Short eared Owl (A.Hill)
Thursday 1st MayCrookes: Tawny Owl dozing in trees on edge of Crookes Valley Park/Uni Sports Centre (C.Stride)
Ulley CP: Hobby – 1, Buzzard – 1,
Sparrowhawk – 1, Kestrel – 1 female, Mute Swans – pair nesting. (D.Woodriff)
R Derwent: 6 Mandarins (5m1f) at Calver, one male displaying, Spotted
Flycatcher at Bubnell (A.Deighton)
Padley Gorge: 4 Pied Flycatcher (3m1f), 1m Redstart, 1 Tree Pipit (A.Deighton)
Haywood Farm Grindleford: Pied Flycatcher - M singing, Kestrel chasing off Tawny
Owl from nestbox 14:30, 2 Common Buzzards plus further one over Froggatt Edge.
Also Cormorant S over Grindleford. (S.Bailey)
Wooler Knoll: Wood Warbler - 1 singing (R.Dale)
Harley: female Whinchat on coach road near Spittal House (Michael)
Wednesday 30th AprilThrybergh Country Park: 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Ringed Plover, 4 Common Tern, 4 Whitethroat (A Bell)
Tuesday 29th AprilElsecar Res: Garden Warbler 1, Cuckoo 2, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1
Male, Great Spotted Woodpecker 1,Kingfisher 1, Whitethroat 1, Little Owl 1(M.Pearson)
Froggatt Edge: Cuckoo - 1 calling (S.Bailey)
Millhouses: 10+ Swifts flying over, 'screaming' and moving NW (A.Johnson)
Ladybower Res: Common Sandpiper - 34+, Red-breasted Merganser - 4, Sand Martin - 4 (R.Dale)
Harthill village: Corn Bunting singing (M.Sherwin)
Monday 28th AprilBotanical Gardens: single House Martin over (B.Spencer)
RVCP: American Wigeon showing well on reserve lake, also Goosander. From reserve
lake along river to old railway bridge and along old railway to Killamarsh were
2 Grasshopper Warblers, 4 Lesser Whitethroats, 12 Common Whitethroats 1 Sedge
Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 9 Chiffchaff and 16 Willow Warblers. a pair of Kestrels
nesting on pylons nearby, 1 Swallow and a Willow Tit (P.Ridsdale)
Haywood Farm: Grindleford: 9 Swifts feeding over farm
and Hay Wood (S.Bailey)
Millhouses: At
least two Tawny Owls calling, House Martin nest building, along with
Grey Wagtail and Moorhen on the River Sheaf. Also pair of
Mandarin in local garden (A.Johnson)
Sunday 27th AprilElsecar Res: Cuckoo - 1, Swift - 3, Sedge Warbler - 2, Common Tern - 1, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1 (M.Pearson)
Blacka Moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 reeling, Cuckoo - 2, Tree Pipit - 2 (R.Hill)
Redmires Res: Grasshopper
Warbler - 1 reeling, Dunlin - 6, Little Ringed Plover - 3, Common
Sandpiper - 6, Wheatear - 1, Firecrest - 1 (R.Hill)
RVCP: American Wigeon - drake still present, Osprey - 1 briefly, Oystercatcher - 1, Egyptian Goose - 2, Swift - 20 (A.Deighton)
Ulley CP: Sedge Warbler - 1, Common Sandpiper - 1, Little Ringed Plover - 3, House Martin - 1, Whitethroat - 5, Gadwall - pair (D.Bye)
Warren Vale LNR: Lesser Whitethroat - 1, Willow Tit - 1 (P.Leonard)
Thrybergh CP: Buzzard - 1, Dunlin - 1, Common Tern - 6, Swift - 3, Yellow Wagtail -
2, Sedge Warbler - 1 singing, Lesser Whitethroat - 3 inc 1 singing,
Whitethroat - 7 singing, Blackcap - 2 singing, Chiffchaff - 1 singing,
Willow Warbler - 4 singing (P.Leonard)
R. Don, Aldwarke: Goosander - 5 (P.Leonard)
Aldwarke SF: Shelduck - 1 pr; Gadwall - 17, inc 1 hybrid drake; Tufted Duck - 17;
Lapwing - breeding confirmed; Whitethroat - 3 singing; Blackcap - 1
singing; Willow Warbler - 1 singing (P.Leonard)
Pit-house West: Sedge Warbler - 1 (S.Guymer)
Bolehill Flash: single Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler and
Swift (B.Croxton)
Redmires: Reeling Grasshopper Warbler on Hammond's Field, a Tree Pipit around bottom res
and 3 Northern Wheatears along the conduit, including one 'Greenland' female (D.Wood)
Saturday 26th April
Pit-house West: Reed Warbler - 1, Wheatear - 2 (M.Reeder)
Wharncliffe Side: Swift - 4 this evening (R.Dale)
Chapeltown: Swift - 1 back this evening (T.Dale)
Westwood Country Park: Woodcock - 4 roding, Tawny Owl - 2, Tree Pipit - 1 (R.Dale)
Blackburn Meadows NR: Lesser Whitethroat - 2, Sedge Warbler - 2, Whitethroat - 9 (R.Dale)
Wharncliffe Chase: Wheatear
- 4, including one Greenland Wheatear, Redstart - 3, Tree Pipit - 2,
Cuckoo - 1, Swift - 2 N, Fieldfare - 9 (D.Woodriff)
Rocher Head: Wheatear - 2 (P.Mella)
Agden Side: Tree Pipit - 2 (P.Mella)
Redmires Res: Wheatear - 4 (R.Hill)
Ulley CP: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 (D.Bye)
Edale: Cuckoo - 1, Peregrine - 1 (D.Bye)
Friday 25th April
Low Moor / Langsett Woods : Crossbill – 4, Common Sandpiper – 2, Snipe – 6: all seen displaying at the same time (D.Woodriff)
Hey Bank, Upper Derwent Valley: Redstart - 1, Tree Pipit - 1, Woodcock - nest with 3 eggs (R.Dale)
Elsecar Res: Peregrine - 1, Whitethroat -1 (M.Pearson)
Redmires Res: Wheatear - 1, Little Ringed Plover - 2 (R.Hill)
Thursday 24th April
Padley Gorge: 2M 1F Pied Flycatcher and 1 singing Redstart (J.Sherwin)
Thrybergh CP: first 3 Whitethroats, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, Cuckoo calling
beyond Silverwood wood, 4 Common Terns, 1 Ringed Plover and 1 Whimbrel (dep. E
at 0815) (M.Smethurst.)
Photograph Copyright © M.Smethurst
RVCP: Drake American Wigeon present still this morning (see attached
photo).Also a Swift over the main lake with hirundines; singing male
Whitethroat
and Lesser Whitethroat. (D.Wood)
Photograph Copyright © D.Wood
Redmires Res: late this afternoon
singing male Redstart and 4 Common Sandpiper(D.Wood)
Hagg Side: Crossbill - 9+ including juvs (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: Yellow Wagtail - 1, Lesser Whitethroat - 1 (G.Featherstone); Little Ringed Plover - 1 (D.Bye)
Wednesday 23rd April
Barbrook Res: Little Ringed Plover - 2, Common Sandpiper - 2, White Wagtail - 1, Snipe - 1 drumming, Redstart - male (M.Brew)
Ramsley Res: Cuckoo - 1 (M.Brew)
Cold Side, Howden Res: Cuckoo - 1 (R.Dale)
RVCP:
Drake
American Wigeon on Meadowgate Lake this evening (M.Reeder)
Haywood Farm, Grindleford: Pair of Kestrels
mating, M bringing voles to F and making frequent visits to kestrel box. See
photos of M preening and F with unexpected lizard, probably caught on Froggatt
Edge (S.Bailey)
Tuesday 22nd April
Hall
Wood: Tree Pipit - 1 singing, and 1 also at Low Hall
Wood (R.Dale)
Wharncliffe Chase: Cuckoo
- 1 calling (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: 3 Common Buzzards, 3 Blackcaps – all singing males, 5 Song Thrushes – all singing, 6 Linnets – 3 pairs with at least 1 singing / displaying, 5 Great Crested Grebe – 1 pair, 4 Yellowhammer – 2 pairs (D.Woodriff)
Monday April 21st 2008
RVCP:
Red-crested Pochard - a drake present at 11:00,
Wigeon - pair, Yellow Wagtail - 2 (P.Brown); Whitethroat - 1 (S.Guymer)
Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 746 (R.Dale)
Rocher Flat: Ring
Ouzel - 1 (R.Dale)
Rocher Head: Wheatear
- 10 (R.Dale)
Ecclesall Woods: min 5 Heron nests with 3,2,2,0,0 well-grown young, one nest
still under construction (S.Bailey)
Elsecar Res: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - pair, Sand Martin - 50+, Swallow - 60+ (M.Pearson)
Sunday April 20th 2008
Peat Pits Lane: Approx 300 Golden Plover, 100+
Fieldfares, 2+ displaying Snipe, 8 Curlew. Also 60+ Fieldfares
at the junction of Kirk Edge Road and Onesmoor Road (B.Spencer)
RVCP: 1 Common Tern, 23 Goldeneye, Sand Martin - building up all
day, with a minimum of 500, 28 Pied Wagtail, 3 White Wagtail, 6
Yellow Wagtail (K.Gould)
High Bradfield: 150-250 approx Golden Plover at Peat Pits
farm, 300+ Fieldfare near Edge Mount, 3 Snipe near Tinker Brook Farm
(J.Stobart)
Harthill Reservoir: Common Buzzard 1, Mandarin 2 (m +
f), Ruddy Duck 1m, Sand Martin c.30, Swallow c.15 (R.Hill)
Pebley Pond: Tufted Duck c.10 (R.Hill)
Saturday April 19th 2008
RVCP: 2 Common Terns, 10 Goosander, 12
Herons and still hundreds of Sand Martins (R.Twigg); 2 Avocet NW @
0625, 1 Greenshank N @ 0650, 1 Peregrine @ 0710 (K.Gould)
Ulley: 5 Great Crested Grebes, 27
Swallows, 2 Willow Warblers, 1 Blackcap.(R.Twigg)
Blue
Man's Bower: 2
Redshank, 3 Little Ringed Plover (looked like 2 males displaying to a
female),1 pair Shoveler,1pair Teal (R.Twigg)
Elsecar Reservoir: Red
legged Partridge - 4, Great Black-Backed
Gull - 4 N, White Wagtail - 1, Bullfinch -
8, Yellowhammer - 3M, Reed Bunting - 2M 1F (Michael)
Thrybergh CP: Swallow - c10, Sand Martin - c130, Yellow
Wagtail - 1 (R.Hill)
Friday April 18th 2008
Wentworth Estate: 28 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Cormorant, 2 Common Tern, c200
Sand Martin, 4 House Martin & c100 Swallow (D.Stables)
Aston: 2 Common Terns North at 17:45 (M.Reeder)
RVCP: 2 superb adult Common Cranes
first picked up at 18.20, then headed north and last seen at the northern end
of park at 18.40. Pete Wragg then observed the same birds at 18.45 heading
north over Brinsworth. Also at RVCP at least 350 Sand Martins. (R.Twigg)
Elsecar Reservoir: Buzzard - 1F, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 1M, Sand
Martin - 80+, Swallow - 50+, Blackcap - 7M 1F, Willow Warbler -
3, Long Tailed Tit - 10, Nuthatch - 2, Treecreeper -
2, Bullfinch - 1M 1F, Yellowhammer - 2M, Reed Bunting - 2, Tawny Owl - 1 (roosting) (Michael)
Thursday April 17th 2008
Thrybergh CP: Yellow Wagtail - 11 (M.Smethurst)
Pit-house West: Little Ringed Plover - 6, Redshank - 2, Lesser Redpoll -
80 (P.Brown)
Stubley Hollows: Wheatear - 4, Fieldfare - 250, Meadow Pipit - 75,
Blackcap - 2, Chiffchaff - 2 (J.Sherwin)
Rocher Head: Wheatear - 10, White Wagtail - 1 male, Stonechat - 2,
Meadow Pipit - 30 (R.Dale)
Fulwood: Whooper Swan - 25 low N at 09:15 (D.Wood)
Strines Res: Whooper Swan - 24, presumed (most of) same as at Fulwood
earlier (R.Dale)
Ulley CP: Green Sandpiper - 1, Common Sandpiper - 1, Fieldfare - 68 flew
NE (D.Bye)
Fulwood: 25 Whooper Swans low N at 0915 (D.Wood)
Barbrook Reservoir: Ring Ouzel 1 male (M.Brew) 
