Sightings Archive

Saturday 8th April 2017

• Firsby Res: 319 - 1 - Low over site. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male.
• Foulstone Delph: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male in Running Moss Dike
• Fulwood: Red Kite - 1 - drifted east at 18:50. Last seen circling up.
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 3 ; Siskin - 3 - including apparent courtship chasing and song-flighting male
• Graves Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - pair in usual place but headed off NE ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 3 ; Treecreeper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 4 ; Stock Dove - 01-Feb ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1
• Greave*s Piece: Tree Pipit - 1 - singing. ; Willow Warbler - 4+ - Singing
• Greystones: Waxwing - 14 - 09:30 About in Sycamore in car park garden. Feeding on remaining Cotoneaster berries. Feeding on insects in leaf buds. Resting and preening. ; Cormorant - 1 - 09:45 at altitude over Greystones Road.
• Holling Dale Plantation: Swallow - 1 - N
• Lodge Moor: Brambling - 3 - Still visiting feeders
• Mayfield Valley: Brambling - 2 - At the Alpaca Farm
• Middleton Moor: Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Wheatear - 1
• Norwood Allotments: Swallow - 1 - First of the season heading south at 18:30 ; Blackcap - 1 - male singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; 321 - 1 - over SE ; Robin - 2 - One feeding its mate
• Old Wheel millpond: Mute Swan - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing male
• Orgreave Lakes: Avocet - 3 - Clearly a pair an an unwanted interloper ; Avocet - 3 - 3 ; Avocet - 3 - 2 ; Avocet - 1 - single male present until 17.30 at least but no sign at dusk. Periods of frequent calling and chased a Carrion Crow on one occasion. ; Goosander - 20 - 10 during afternoon increased to 20 at dusk ; Goldeneye - 5 ; Little Ringed Plover - 6+ ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Redshank - 8 ; Oystercatcher - 4 ; Grey Partridge - 04-May - 2 pairs plus probably another bird singing ; Kestrel - 2 - 2 females ; Mute Swan - 2 - pair ; Greylag Goose - 12 ; Canada Goose - 18 ; Mallard - c.50 ; Gadwall - 17 ; Pochard - 2 - pair ; 320 - 2 - pair ; Wigeon - 1 - male ; Coot - 33 ; Lapwing - 9+ - including regular leucistic bird on island. ; Snipe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 7 - including displaying pair on large lake ; Black-headed Gull - 153 ; Herring Gull - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3+ ; Skylark - 17 - including 15 singing. Partial count (most of plains and north of hill not checked) ; Meadow Pipit - 12 - including 4 singing (partial count) ; Linnet - c.7 ; Pied Wagtail - 7+ - all yarrellii. Including vicious territorial dispute between 2 birds with bystander ; Starling - 3 - feeding on causeway ; Reed Bunting - 3+ ; Moorhen - 1 - on small lake
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 52
• Redmires Bottom Res: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Swallow - 1
• Redmires conduit: Red Grouse - 2 ; Golden Plover - 20 ; Lapwing - 18 ; Curlew - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - around 10 - mead ; Skylark - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Golden Plover - 150+ - in one of the usual fields ; Redwing - 1 - Single bird in meadow with mistle thrush and song thrush
• Redmires Plantation: Siskin - 2 ; Goldfinch - 4
• Redmires, Hammond*s Field: Song Thrush - 2
• Ringinglow village: Swallow - 1 - Just arrived ; Curlew - 2
• Rotherham: Short-eared Owl - 1 - Flushed from rough ground on edge of recording area.
• Silverwood Lagoon: Willow Warbler - 11 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 9 - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - singing ; Gadwall - 5 ; Little Grebe - 8+ ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Lapwing - 2prs ; Grey Partridge - 3prs ; Swallow - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Snipe - 2
• Stanage Edge: Ring Ouzel - 4
• Strines Moor: Red Kite - 1 ; Red Kite - 1 - low over Strines Moor 13:40, later briefly over Hollingdale ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Moscar House
• Tin Mill, Deepcar: Dipper - 1 - photo
• Ughill Moors: Little Owl - 1