Sightings Archive

Sunday 11th March 2018

• Firsby Res: Long-tailed Tit - 2
• Grange Park Golf Course: Mallard - 2 - 1pr ; Kestrel - 1 - Female ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Skylark - 2+ - singing ; Wren - 3+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 10+ - singing ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Song Thrush - 4 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 2+ - singing ; Great Tit - 3 - singing ; Treecreeper - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2 - singing ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Magpie - 4+ ; Chaffinch - 5 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - singing
• Graves Park: Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - Flying over
• Holling Dale: Raven - 4+ - 2+1+1
• Hooton Common: Skylark - present - several in song
• Kilnhurst Ings: Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Linnet - 15 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - low over ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 3 ; Greylag Goose - 1 - left N ; Mallard - 1pr ; Moorhen - 6 ; Jack Snipe - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; 320 - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Gadwall - 11 - 7m; 4f ; Greenfinch - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 2prs ; Cormorant - 1 - S
• Kilnhurst Riverside: Greylag Goose - 2 - NW ; Song Thrush - 3 - inc 3 singing ; Mallard - 7 - 3prs + 1f ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Canada Goose - 4 - on river ; Little Grebe - 1 - on river ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - over ; Jay - 1
• Ladybower Dam: Nuthatch - 1 - in trees by Yorkshire Bridge pub ; House Sparrow - 6 - around car park of Yorkshire Bridge pub
• Loxley Valley: Tufted Duck - 9 - 6 males, 3 females on Olive Wheel Dam. ; Tufted Duck - 5 - 4 males, 1 female on Wisewood Forge Dam.
• Malin Bridge: Tawny Owl - 2 - bird calling weakly from top of St Mark's Church, second silent bird sat in Birch by the School.
• Manor Fields Park: Kestrel - 1 - on site 11:00-12:00 hunting. ; Common Buzzard - 2 - 1 south 11:10. 1 south 11:21. ; Redwing - 6 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Greenfinch - 8 ; Goldfinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - over north ; Mallard - 12 - 6 male 6 female on pond ; Moorhen - 3
• Middleton Moor: Canada Goose - 2 ; Wigeon - 2 ; Mallard - 3 ; 320 - 17 ; Tufted Duck - 4 - Includes 1 tufted/ scaup hybrid ; Goosander - 1 - Redhead, a very scarce bird at this site. ; Lapwing - 5 ; Curlew - 15 ; Black-headed Gull - 27 ; Common Gull - 34 ; Herring Gull - 1 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 ; Stock Dove - 3 ; Little Owl - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Skylark - 26 ; Fieldfare - 26 ; Redwing - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Reed Bunting - 2
• Orgreave Lakes: Scaup - 1 - Drake on Big Lake ; Scaup - 1 - gone from Ulley (present yesterday). ; Iceland Gull - 1 ; Iceland Gull - 1 - Juv present from 07:50 to 08:55 when it flew north.
• Oughtibridge garden: Reed Bunting - 1 - Feeding on seeds on bird table
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 200+ - Quite active tightly knitted flock ; Lapwing - 100+ - Many noisily displaying
• R Don, Aldwarke: Mallard - 4prs ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1