Sightings Archive

Sunday 4th April 2021

• Firsby Res: Fieldfare - c50 - Feeding in Sheep paddock.
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 5 - 3f and 2 m around feeders - photo of female ; Brambling - 5 - photo of male ; Brambling - 5 - another photo
• Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 1+ - singing ; Wren - 4+ - singing ; Dunnock - 3 - singing ; Robin - 8+ - singing ; Blackbird - 2+ - at least 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 3 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - singing ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ - inc pair @ Brick Kiln Ext, SK 386937. ; Treecreeper - 1 - @ Ockley Bottom ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 3+ ; Chaffinch - 2+ - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing from Driving Range ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Black-headed Gull - 3 - feeding @ practice range ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing from Walkworth Wood ; Woodpigeon - 4+ - singing
• Graves Park: 319 - 1 - Circling over ; Little Grebe - 2 - chasing each other
• Linacre Res: 319 - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Mandarin - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2
• Lodge Moor: Swallow - 1 - N over top of Crimicar Lane
• Malin Bridge: House Sparrow - 2 - Male and female sparrows very busy all day. nesting in hole just behind gutter in Norris road garden. ; Dunnock - 2 - pair dunnock also nesting in ivy bush Norris road.. ; Moorhen - 1 - nocmig 00:10 ; Coot - 1 - nocmig 00:45. Ad with Moorhen, likely local birds in territorial flights. Nearest birds Rivelin Valley and Hillsborough park. ; Water Rail - 1 - nocmig 01:39, 3 clear calls as it passed over.
• Markham: Yellowhammer - 4 ; Linnet - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Snipe - 2 - flushed ; Skylark - 3
• Moss Valley, upper: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
• Nether Handley: Grey Partridge - 2 - flew across main road and over fields
• Norbriggs Flash: Grey Heron - 1 ; Canada Goose - 10 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2
• Norton Lees: 319 - 1
• Orgreave Lakes: Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Tufted Duck - 18 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 2 in courtship display ; Goldeneye - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4+ ; Herring Gull - 4+ ; Cormorant - 1 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Wigeon - 1 - M ; 320 - 1 - M ; Redshank - 2 ; Lapwing - 1 ; Skylark - 8 - Singing ; Kestrel - 1 - M ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Little Egret - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 3 ; Wigeon - 3 - 2m; 1f, small lake ; Redshank - 2prs ; 320 - 3prs ; Snipe - 1 - flushed off N from S shore large lake & again from N end later. ; Lapwing - 4 - mobbing crows over small lake ; Pied Wagtail - 3 - small lake ; Herring Gull - 3 - 2cy ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - fine adult ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Linnet - 2 ; Sand Martin - c25 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - displaying over N end ; Curlew - 1 - S @ 0913hrs ; Wheatear - 1 - female at N end ; Grey Heron - 3 - 1 over W, 1 S; adult on small lake ; Stock Dove - 4 - over ; Goldeneye - 3prs - displaying ; Gadwall - 24+ ; Greylag Goose - 10 ; Mute Swan - 11 - inc pair with nest on small lake ; Canada Goose - c60 ; Great Crested Grebe - 12 - lots of display