Sightings Archive

Wednesday 26th April 2017

• Firsby Res: Bullfinch - 1 - singing male. ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Robin - 14 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Blackbird - 7 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 2 ; Linnet - c9 ; Goldfinch - 14 ; Chaffinch - 8 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Great Tit - 2 ; Wren - 5
• Holmesfield: Swallow - 3 ; House Martin - 01-Feb ; Nuthatch - 1
• Kimberworth: Bullfinch - 1 - Male ; Robin - 2 - One displaying aggressive posturing. Head thrown back, throat and chest swelled up and neck turning ; House Sparrow - 1 - On bird table
• Lodge moor garden: Reed Bunting - 2m - Stayed in bush for half an hour
• Manor Fields Park: Mistle Thrush - 2 - a pair at nest ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - at 06:05 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Blackcap - 3
• Myrtle Bank Farm: Whitethroat - 2 - 2 singing
• Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 1 ; BLACK-NECKED GREBE - 1 ; Wheatear - 12 ; Whinchat - 2 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 ; Swallow - 50 - grounded ; Dunlin - 1 ; Whinchat - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 2 ; Pochard - 5 - 4Male & 1Female. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 7 - North at 0915 ; Redshank - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Sand Martin - 120+ ; House Martin - 2 ; Swallow - 16 ; Arctic Tern - 1 ; Jack Snipe - 1 - Flushed from the plains.
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 5 - 3m, 2f including possible pair ; Nuthatch - 5 - including one using nest box ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - f ; Siskin - 2 - pair ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Mandarin - 1 - male on the ground in the woods
• Parkgate Canal Basin: Mute Swan - 55 ; Mallard - 31 ; Black-headed Gull - 13 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing male ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing male ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing male
• R Don, Effingham St: Common Buzzard - 1 - high drifting W, mobbed by LBBG and Carrion Crow. ; Canada Goose - 2 - female incubating.
• R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Common Sandpiper - 2 - on and below the weir.
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 27 ; Tufted Duck - 22 - 16m-6f ; 319 - 2 - 1flew w 1se soar ; Kestrel - 1 - in s ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Herring Gull - 4 - 2ad.1 -2cy down 1ad past n ; Swift - 1 - in 0930 ; Sand Martin - 700 - + ; Swallow - 4 - + ; House Martin - 2 - + ; Wren - 16 - 15sing ; Song Thrush - 2 - sing ; Blackcap - 6 - 5sing+1f ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reel. ; Willow Warbler - 10 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 6 - sing ; House Sparrow - 3 - 01-Feb ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr
• Treeton: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing below cricket ground
• Ulley CP: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing
• Wadsley Common garden: House Sparrow - 2 - Female feeding juvenile from fat-ball feeder. ; Robin - 1 - Fledgling ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing.
• Whiteley Woods: Mandarin - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1
• Yorkshire Bridge: Dipper - 2 - Upstream from bridge around former nestsite ; Mallard - 6 - Pair with 4 young ; Grey Wagtail - 2+ ; Wren - 1 - Feeding by river edge ; Robin - 1