Sightings Archive

River Don Riverside Pub: Sand Martin - 9 ; Mallard - 6 - Pair with 4 mid sized chicks (2 weeks old?)

River Don Rutland Rd Bridge: Sand Martin - 16 - Feeding Adults provisioning multiple nests ; Moorhen - 3 - Pair with one small chick ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - Independent fledged juvenile

Brinsworth: 319 - 1 - Circling over Barrett estate, moved Westward 16:45

Scholes Village: Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Collared Dove - 3 ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Swallow - 4+ ; Wren - 1+ ; Dunnock - 5+ - Inc 3 singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - Juvs ; House Sparrow - 20+ ; Tree Sparrow - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing W of Scholes Pond

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 - 3pr+1ads inc pr with young aboard ; Mute Swan - 50 - inc.5 (3y2y) ; Tufted Duck - 12 - 3f ; 319 - 1 - e soar ; Kestrel - 3 - singles ; Coot - 60+ - inc 5pr with 29 y ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 - ad ; Common Sandpiper - 1 - left n ; Black-headed Gull - 25+ ; Herring Gull - 1 - 2nd cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - 2nd cy ; Common Tern - 2 - ad circled high call left n ; Sand Martin - 5 - past n ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - jv ; Yellow Wagtail - 3 - jv tgether ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - 3 singing ; Magpie - 19 - inc 4-2-2young seen ; Carrion Crow - 11 - inc a3-2 young ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 2 singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Swift - 20+ - over site this morning

Carbrook: Sand Martin - 6 - At least six birds using 3 pipes in the wall near the artificial Sand Martin bank off Carbrook Street.

Malin Bridge: Swift - 40 - compact flock overhead

Redmires conduit: Willow Tit - 1 - report of calling bird half a mile along the conduit.

Silverwood Lagoon: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Little Grebe - 4+ - two pairs feeding young ; 319 - 2+ ; Moorhen - 4 - pair + 2 juvs ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 20+ - several pairs bred ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; House Martin - c.20 - Woodlaithes end of pit top ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; Swift - 4 ; Carrion Crow - 10 - two family parties

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Grey Heron - 3 - pos 4= 0745 3past nw 1past se 0900 ; Mute Swan - 45 - inc 5 y ; Tufted Duck - 6 - 2f ; 319 - 5 - soar.4se1e ; Kestrel - 2 - 1flew e 1in s ; Swift - 60 - + ; Swallow - 7 - 2-and a fam 5 inc 3jv ; Reed Warbler - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 1 - sing ; Whitethroat - 7 - inc f 5 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - 1sing ; Reed Bunting - 5 - 2sing ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Whitethroat - 7 - inc 2and fam 5

Wincobank: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - calling loudly while heading north

Bingham Park: Moorhen - 5 - 2 adults & 3 chicks ; Jay - 4 - 2 adults feeding 2 juveniles ; Mallard - 3+ - 3 chicks

Catcliffe: Kestrel - 1 - Female flew in to bushes near TWI 16.00.

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 1 ; Gadwall - 10+ - inc 4 fems with broods (6,7,8,3) ; Mallard - 60+ ; Pochard - 8 ; Tufted Duck - 1 - male ; Little Grebe - 8+ - 2 occupied nests ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Moorhen - 2+ ; Coot - 24+ - 24ads, 4 young, 4 occupied nests ; Black-headed Gull - 2 ; Sand Martin - 6+