Sightings Archive

Thursday 27th April 2023

• Barbrook Pools: Cormorant - 1 - High to west
• Barlow Common: Yellowhammer - 2
• Bell Ground, Tankersley: Gadwall - 2 - Pair ; Blackcap - 4 - Singing ; Yellow Wagtail - 4 ; 320 - 2 - Pair ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing ; Lapwing - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2 - Singing ; Linnet - 2
• Damflask Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad on overflow ; Swallow - c20 - feeding in rain
• Endcliffe Park: Kingfisher - 1 - upper lake at 17:00
• Ewden Height: Linnet - 2 ; Meadow Pipit - 10+ - Song/display ; Hobby - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Curlew - 5+ - Song/display ; Stonechat - 2 - Pair ; Swallow - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - Intermittent song ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - Male calling. ; Lapwing - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 5+ - Song/courtship/nesting/behaviour ; Skylark - 1 - Singing ; Golden Plover - 3 - Flew over towards farmland. ; Redstart - 1 - Singing ; 319 - 1
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Jay - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 4 ; Moorhen - 2
• Firsby Res: Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Mallard - 2 - Pair in stream near road. ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Over. ; Kestrel - 2 - Mating pair. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Mobbed by Jays and Blackbirds brief calls. ; Jay - 2+ - Mobbing Tawny Owl. ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - Pair. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Blackbird - 6+ - Numerous around site Inc some mobbing Tawny and sitting Female. ; Whitethroat - 2 - Single birds calling from hedgerows. ; Blackcap - 4+ ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Linnet - 20+ - Lots of activity. ; Greenfinch - 2 - Pair near small holding uncommon here. ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Chaffinch - 4+ ; Yellowhammer - 10+ - Inc 3 clashing in the crops. ; Skylark - 6 ; Dunnock - 1 - Sat on nest. ; Grey Partridge - 2
• Greave*s Piece: Willow Warbler - 20+ - At least 20 singing ; Tree Pipit - 2
• Grouse Inn: Snipe - 4 - 2 pairs displaying in fields opposite ; Lapwing - 2 - nest with clutch of 3 eggs ; Curlew - 2 - bubbling ; Kestrel - 1 - female on nest
• Heeley - Broadfield Road area: Chiffchaff - 1 heard
• Hollin Clough: Ring Ouzel - 2 - Pair ; Jay - 2
• Leash Fen: Wheatear - 1 - female by sheep pens
• Marsh Lane: Yellowhammer - 3 - Bramleymoor Lane ; Whitethroat - 1
• Meersbrook Park: Chiffchaff - 2 heard
• Middleton Moor: Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Whimbrel - 1 - Flew over N W calling ; Wigeon - 1 - Male ; Shelduck - 3 - Resident pair +1 ; Oystercatcher - 1
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 8
• Ramsley Res: Cuckoo - 1 - Flying towards Leash Fen ; Cuckoo - 1 - calling while being harrased by Meadow Pipits
• Rawmarsh: Sparrowhawk - 1 - W @ 1245hrs ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing, Rockcliffe Road
• Redmires Res: Moorhen - 2 - on Middle Res ; Sand Martin - 1 - flew SW ; Whitethroat - 1 - male singing by Bottom Res ; Willow Warbler - 33 - singing around reservoir perimeter ; Swallow - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - ad & 2 CY ; Common Sandpiper - 3 ; Crossbill - 1 - calling by Bottom Res ; Blackcap - 1 - male singing by Bottom Res - first back (but always late April!) ; Linnet - 4 - 2 pairs by Bottom Res ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - pairs ; Song Thrush - 5 pairs
• Redmires Top Res: Common Sandpiper - 2
• Rocher Head Fields: Ring Ouzel - 3 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Stonechat - 2
• RVCP: Wigeon - 2 ; Common Tern - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2
• Scholes: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing from remnant hedge S of pond ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, "Paddock Wood" ; Kestrel - 1 - male hunting/hovering behind Red House Farm ; 319 - 1 - over pond circling before drifting W