Sightings Archive

Sunday 20th May 2018

• Grange Park Golf Course: Long-tailed Tit - 5+ - at least 2 parties ; Coal Tit - 1 - sing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - sing ; Great Tit - 1+ - sing ; Chaffinch - 3+
• Greave*s Piece: Willow Warbler - 2
• Greystones garden: Starling - 6 - inc 3 juveniles
• Hangingwater garden: Jay - 1 - failed attempt to predate blue tit nesting box
• Holling Dale: Tree Pipit - 2 - singing Foulstone end ; Cuckoo - 1 - singing
• Hooton Common: Lapwing - 6 - on recently tilled field, chasing off BH
• Hooton Roberts; Back Lane: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Linnet - 4 ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Hobby - 1 - over to W/NW ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6
• Hooton Roberts; Holmes Lane: Red-legged Partridge - 6 ; Pheasant - 5 - 3m; 2f ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1
• Hooton Roberts; Hooton Cliff: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - sinmging ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Hooton Roberts; The Wapping: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 1pr - carrying food ; Tree Sparrow - 2
• Kilnhurst: Pied Wagtail - 1 - carrying food ; Mute Swan - 9 - S @ 0805hrs
• Kilnhurst Ings: Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 4+ - inc one in face-off with cock Pheasant ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 10+ - 7 S; 2m & 1f + brood of small ducklings ; Reed Warbler - 4+ - 3 singing + 1 carrying food ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 2 singing males + 2f, one apparently leaving nest in juncus ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 3m; 2f flew SW ; Starling - c30 - foraging on meadow & flying off with food towards Kilnhurst ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing
• Kilnhurst Riverside: Whitethroat - 6+ - inc 5 singing, 1 'scolding' ; Linnet - 1 - singing ; Pheasant - 1 - cock ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Gadwall - 3 - 2m; 1f, over in aerial pursuit ; Kingfisher - 1 - on river ; Greylag Goose - 8+ - + 18 juvs in 2-3 broods, on river
• Kimberworth Park: Swift - 10+ - 4 low over regular nest site on Roughwood Rd
• Linacre Wood: Pied Flycatcher - 2 - Male and female
• Middleton Moor: Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Shelduck - 2 - Pair
• Millhouses Lane garden: Swift - 4 - “screaming??? briefly overhead, before drifting off to the south
• Parkgate; *Banana* plantation: Blackcap - 2+ - 2 singing + anxiety calls ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - calling from woodland. Female flew in carrying small bird
• R Don, Aldwarke: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Kingfisher - 1 - bringing fish back to nest in riverbank
• R Wye, Cressbrook: Mandarin - 9 - Female with about 8 small ducklings
• R Wye, Miller*s Dale: Mandarin - 10 - Female with 9 tiny ducklings
• Ramsley Moor: Reed Bunting - 2 - male & female ; Whinchat - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing
• Ramsley Res: Grey Heron - 1
• Rawmarsh; Bellows Road: Swift - 8 - 'screaming' party over
• Redmires Res: Peregrine - 1 - male flew south at 0738 hrs ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - flew W ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 8 - flew SW ; Whitethroat - 1 - still singing
• Rivelin Dams: Cormorant - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair
• Roundwood Golf course: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 6 - singing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 2 - new birds, not shot female and resident male as previously thought ; Greylag Goose - 1pr ; Tufted Duck - 6 ; Gadwall - 1m ; Coot - 12 ; Little Grebe - 3+ - lots of trilling in roadbeds ; Common Tern - 1 - north at 07.05 ; Whitethroat - 11 - singing