Sightings Archive

Sunday 6th May 2018

• Blackburn Meadows NR: COMMON CRANE - 2 - 2 flew high southwest following the don at 05:20. ; Canada Goose - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Water Rail - 1 - singing all morning ; Little Grebe - 2+ - 2 trilling birds ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing ; Reed Warbler - 7 - singing males ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing males ; Garden Warbler - 2 - singing males ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing males ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing males ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing male
• Brinsworth: Blackcap - 1 - Singing in garden and Thirsty Flame area 09.15.
• Burbage Valley: Curlew - 2 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Male calling from tree in cleared plantation (distant shot) ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - pair ; Willow Warbler - 4
• Canklow Woods: 319 - 1 - Circling low over 17.55.
• Cutthroat Bridge: Cuckoo - 1 - Male flying over calling. also 2 Whinchat and 2 Stonechat
• Dalton: Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1pr ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Mute Swan - 1 - SW @ 0620hrs ; Blackcap - 3 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc one singing ; Gadwall - 1 - drake ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Skylark - 2 - singing over adjacent rape field ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Little Grebe - 1pr
• Grange Park Golf Course: Stock Dove - 2 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 6+ - sing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Skylark - 1 - sing ; Wren - 15+ - sing ; Dunnock - 1 ; Robin - 15+ - sing ; Blackbird - 8 - sing ; Song Thrush - 8 - 7 sing ; Mistle Thrush - 2+ - 1 sing ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 13 - 12 sing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - sing ; Goldcrest - 4 - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 4 - 2 sing ; Magpie - 6+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 9 - sing ; Linnet - 2+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - male
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 30+ - inc two broods of ducklings (9, 1) ; Tufted Duck - 1 - Male ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Mute Swan - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 1+ - calling on east side of lake.
• Kirk Edge: Red-legged Partridge - 2 - In field by Delf Road
• Limb Valley: Collared Dove - 2 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Jay - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 10+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Nuthatch - 5+ ; Jackdaw - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Raven - 2 - circling above wood for 15 mins, calling constantly and sometimes landing on tall trees ; Raven - 2 - record shot ; Blackcap - 5 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 10+ - singing ; Garden Warbler - 2 - m singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - pair harassed by robin ; Curlew - 1 - calling from fields
• Orgreave Lakes: Lapwing - 2 - 2 pairs both with 3 young on 'Plains'
• R Don, Aldwarke: Blackcap - 4 - 2 singing; 1 f carrying nest material + 1 calling ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Mallard - 2 - drakes ; Jay - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - imm, flew downriver ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb - calling ; Stock Dove - 2 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Gadwall - 3 - 1pr + 1m ; Bullfinch - 1pr - male singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Redmires conduit: Wheatear - 1