Sightings Archive

Sunday 30th September 2018

• Aldwarke SF: Snipe - 3 ; Gadwall - 25-30 ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; 320 - 11 ; Shoveler - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Magpie - 10 - in close flock
• Blackburn Meadows NR: Wood Duck - 2 - 2 still present on canal 20 meters east or reserve entrance.
• Canklow Woods: Common Buzzard - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 1
• Kilnhurst Ings: Sparrowhawk - 1 - flew low to S in semi-darkness ; Snipe - 6 ; Reed Bunting - 6 ; Cormorant - 8 - S ; Moorhen - 4+ - #NAME? ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Kestrel - 1 - f/juv ; Meadow Pipit - 11 - flushed from rank grassland ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Kilnhurst Riverside: Song Thrush - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 18+ - single flock ; Greylag Goose - 1 - S ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Pheasant - 2 - 1m; 1f ; Cormorant - 9 - S ; Linnet - 11 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - 'alba' wagtail, SW ; Herring Gull - 1 - W ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Kingfisher - 1 - on river ; Yellowhammer - 2 - over ; Moorhen - 1 - river ; Great Black-backed Gull - 3 - S ; Jay - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - S ; Sparrowhawk - 1+ - f hunting along river with 1+ juv(s) calling nearby ; Common Buzzard - 1 - disturbed from riverside tree
• Limb Valley: Mandarin - 30 - At least that many, on pond
• Manor Fields Park: Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flew from top pond reedbed into overhanging trees at 10:00
• Moss Valley, lower: Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - c26+
• R Don, Aldwarke: Cormorant - 02-Mar - 1 S; 1 N; 1 N, circled & returned S ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Mute Swan - 1 - adult, swam downriver ; Mallard - 1 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Raven - 2 - over together @ 0850hrs, settling on water tower on Liberty Steel site for 15mins; one left SW, other N. Very vocal.
• Ranmoor: Crossbill - 10 - Flying south
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 50 - c. feeding on Top Res ; Pink-footed Goose - 220 - c. flew SE at 08:32 hrs ; Mallard - 144 - noticeable increase ; Wigeon - 1 - with Mallards ; 320 - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Goshawk - 1 - juv - probably a male flew W at 08:40 hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - ad male hunting ; Kestrel - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 15 - c. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 27 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2 CY ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - imm in roadside willows at end of Top Res ; Song Thrush - 12 - influx ; Blackcap - 1 - by works ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Goldcrest - 10 - c. small increase noted ; Raven - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 25 - c. flew SW ; Starling - 30 - c. flew SSW ; Chaffinch - 28 - inc 18 W ; Greenfinch - 4 - flew NW ; Siskin - 129 - flew SW in 2 hrs ; Goldfinch - 106 - flew S/SW in 2 hrs ; Lesser Redpoll - 89 - mostly SW in 2 hrs - obvious influx today ; Crossbill - 33 - 22 + 4 SW + 7SW - obvious influx ; Meadow Pipit - 80 - c. flew SW in 2 hrs ; Pied Wagtail - 9 - flew SW ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - flew SW
• Ringinglow: Swallow - 7 - Flying around end of Houndkirk Road
• Rivelin Valley: Common Buzzard - 2 - Pair drifting up and down valley
• Rother Valley CP: Little Egret - 2 - R Rother
• Swinton Bridge; sewage works: Stock Dove - c150 - largest flock seen locally for some years; left E/SE
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 9 ; Little Grebe - 8 ; Cormorant - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 22 - inc 3j - also1ad dead in n /field ring yo42 ; Greylag Goose - 25 - +2 grey white feral ; Canada Goose - 65 ; Wigeon - 1 - m ecl. ; Pochard - 3 - mff ; Tufted Duck - 77 ; 319 - 1 - over s boundary 1400 ; Peregrine - 1 - past s0901 ; Lapwing - 170 - inc 50+ s