Sightings Archive

Sunday 5th March 2017

• Kilnhurst Ings: Mallard - 6 - 2m; 4f ; 320 - 11 - 7m; 4f ; Reed Bunting - 3 - 2 singing males; 1f ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 - N ; Kestrel - 1 - f, hunting from tops of bushes ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - inc 1 N ; Greenfinch - 2 - inc singing male ; Chiffchaff - 1 - feeding in riverside willows
• Kilnhurst Riverside: Song Thrush - 3 - singing males ; Long-tailed Tit - 5 ; Mallard - 4prs - inc 3prs on river ; Moorhen - 4 - river ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Greylag Goose - 1 - N ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing male ; Goosander - 1 - redhead, N ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - S ; Red-legged Partridge - 1+ ; 320 - 1pr
• Meersbrook Park: Goldfinch - 11
• Millhouses: Waxwing - 35 - at 16:00
• Norton Lees: Jay - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Waxwing - 16 - south at 08:00 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Redshank - 2 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Pochard - 12 ; Lapwing - 5 - At least 5 territorial birds on the plains'. ; Skylark - 50+ - In excess of 50 birds on territory between 'plains' and small lake.
• R Don, Swinton Bridge: Cormorant - 7 - in riverside trees
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 - 1pr+2singles ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 - past sw ; Mute Swan - 25 - #NAME? ; Pochard - 7 - 4m3f ; Tufted Duck - 46 ; Pheasant - 4 - m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - past e 07-15 ; Lapwing - 10 - 5pr disp. ; Black-headed Gull - 70 - + ; Common Gull - 3 - 2 1st wint. +1ad past w ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - 1ad-1-1st wint past s ; Skylark - 6 - sing ; Dunnock - 25 ; Robin - 23 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - 30 - #NAME? ; Blackbird - 17 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 - sing ; Magpie - 12 - 6pr ; Rook - 1 - past s ; Tree Sparrow - 2 - + ; Bullfinch - 6 - 4m2f at feed stat. ; Reed Bunting - 8 - 6m2f ; Yellowhammer - 6 - 2sing ; Pintail - 2 - ducks, circled & left high to S @ 0927hrs
• Ulley: BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 - Tundra Bean Goose still in fields off Ulley Lane this am, and a Pink-footed Goose
• Ulley CP: Goldfinch - 12 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 100 ; Dunnock - 11 ; Jackdaw - 4 - west ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 17 ; Coot - 18 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Pied Wagtail - 3 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Greylag Goose - 58 ; Magpie - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Canada Goose - 1 ; Fieldfare - 12 ; Starling - 20 ; Skylark - 7 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Pheasant - 9 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 5 ; Great Black-backed Gull - 4 - west ; Yellowhammer - 9 ; BEAN GOOSE (Tundra/Taiga) - 1 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; 319 - 2 ; Jay - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1