Sightings Archive

Sunday 1st April 2018

• Brownhills Lane: Fieldfare - 14 - on roadside fields
• Cinder Bridge Plantation: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Siskin - 1 - SE
• Dalton: Bullfinch - 1pr - male singing
• Forge Dam: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 ; Mandarin - m+f ; 320 - 2 - m+f
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 2 - Males around feeders
• Greasbrough village: Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Chiffchaff - 4+ - 2 birds in LT Tit flock, 1 bird calling on east side of lake and 1 bird on west side. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Left south at 17:25 ; Tufted Duck - 3 - 2M, 1F ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1
• Middleton Moor: Ring Ouzel - 1 - over west, early morning ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 2CY this morning
• Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 1 - On Small Lake island ; Snipe - 5 - On island ; Peregrine - 1 - imm west ; Wheatear - 2
• R Derwent, Froggatt: Goosander - 2 ; Mandarin - 5 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - displaying
• R Don, Aldwarke: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Mallard - 3 - drakes ; Chiffchaff - 2 - one singing ; Kingfisher - 1pr
• Rawmarsh:Haugh Rd: Peregrine - 1 - m N @ 13.00
• Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - c70 - in horse fields
• Redmires Res: Canada Goose - 14 ; Greylag Goose - 20 - c. ; Mallard - 12 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 25 - c. in fields ; Snipe - 3 - displaying ; Curlew - 12 ; Herring Gull - 3 - flew NE ; Skylark - 2 - singing over Roper Hill ; Starling - 60 - c. in fields ; Meadow Pipit - 65 - c. including 45 grounded in bushes by Bottom Res - all left to N ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Greenfinch - 17 - from roost in young conifers by Top Res ; Chaffinch - 10 - c. singing males ; Siskin - 3 - inc 2 males song-flighting ; Lesser Redpoll - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 - singing males ; Song Thrush - 5 - singing males ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - singing males ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2
• Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 2
• Scholes Coppice: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - Singing ; Robin - 5 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2 - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - Singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1 - nest building ; Goldfinch - 1 - singing
• Silverwood Lagoon: Curlew - 1 - SW at 08.05
• Stubbin,Rawmarsh: Yellowhammer - 2 ; Yellowhammer - 2
• Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 22 - past nw call.0817 ; Mute Swan - 46 ; Gadwall - 1 - m in ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Pheasant - 4 - crow. ; Water Rail - 2 ; Redshank - 1 - left w ; Herring Gull - 2 - ad ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad past sw ; Wren - 10 - sing ; Dunnock - 29 - 17sing ; Robin - 26 - 14sing ; Song Thrush - 4 - sing ; Blackbird - 16 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - sing ; Bullfinch - 14 - 02/02/2010 ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3sing ; Yellowhammer - 2 - singles
• Ulley CP: Coot - 4 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 3 - Flew over dam wall. ; Mute Swan - 1 - Feeding near last years nest.