Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 30 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - c250 ; Lapwing - 8 ; Black-tailed Godwit - 1 - Flew over Res at 08:05; may have been flushed from front. Lost to sight over southern arm ; Water Rail - 1 ; Sand Martin - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Pied Wagtail - 5 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Fieldfare - 30+ ; Redwing - 10 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; 319 - 3 ; Scaup - 1 - male now moulted into full adult plumage. ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Common Gull - 2 - 2cy ; Sand Martin - 20 - late afternoon ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 2

Waverley: Snipe - 2 ; Jack Snipe - 1

Wortley: 319 - 6 - Circling together ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing

Barlow Common: Lesser Redpoll - 5+ - in a mixed finch flock, feeding in trees ; Siskin - 4+ - in the same mixed finch flock, feeding in trees ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1

Burbage Valley: Reed Bunting - 1 ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Wheatear - 1 - male ; Stonechat - 2 - m+f

Canklow Woods: Chiffchaff - 2 - 2 singing

Carr House Lane: Blue Tit - 6+ ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Curlew - 2+ - A number of birds calling ; Jay - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pheasant - 4

Cowell Flat: Wheatear - 4 - fly catching from wall / fence posts. ; Raven - 2

Dore garden: Lesser Redpoll - 2 - at feeders ; Siskin - 1 - at feeder

Graves Park: Little Grebe - 1 - On Boating Lake ; Redwing - 1 - Singing near Boating Lake

Hangingwater garden: Blackcap - 2 - m singing & f

High Bradfield: Lapwing - 20+

Middleton Moor: Wigeon - 1 - Male ; Shelduck - 1 ; Curlew - 23

Overstones Farm: Lapwing - c10 - Displaying overhead, calling & on ground ; Starling - c30 - Wheeling over & feeding in fields ; Curlew - 1 - Heard but not seen

RVCP: Shelduck - 2

Thrybergh CP: Tufted Duck - 30 ; Scaup - 1 - male ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Lapwing - 10 ; Curlew - 1 - Circled Park departed North 10:30 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Merlin - 1 - Female flew NW over Doncaster Point at 11:15 ; Pied Wagtail - 10 ; Meadow Pipit - 12 ; Fieldfare - 6 ; Blackbird - 14 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Sand Martin - 10 ; Chiffchaff - 6+ ; Bullfinch - 5 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c150 ; Common Gull - 3 ; Herring Gull - 18

Aldwarke: Raven - 1 - low over Waddington Way heading NE to Liberty site @ 1037hrs; appeared to be carrying food item.

Aldwarke SF: Sparrowhawk - 1 - hunting ; Common Buzzard - 3 - possibly same birds (2+1) as seen earlier over Dalton/Aldwarke? ; Pheasant - 2 - 1m; 1f ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Moorhen - 1 ; Gadwall - 11 - 5prs + 1m ; Tufted Duck - 1pr ; Coot - 5 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - over ; Lapwing - 1pr - m displaying over f on suitable nesting habitat

Barber Wood: Wren - 2 - singing ; Robin - 5 - singing ; Blackbird - 2 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - feeding in adjacent field, 1 singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - song and calls ; Jay - 1