Sightings Archive

Totley Moss Road: Lesser Redpoll - 4 - on feeders ; Willow Tit - 1 - 1 calling in scrub ; Bullfinch - 2 - M&f at feeders

Transpennine trail,Smithy wood: 319 - 4 - Soaring in high wind above smthy wood ; Chiffchaff - 6 - Singing ; Linnet - 2 - Pair ; Skylark - 2 - 2 singing on remaining suitable habitat ; Snipe - 1 ; 324 - 3 - 1 comma,2 peacock butterflies in the sunshine.

Wentworth CP: Red-legged Partridge - 4 - 2 pairs ; Lapwing - 2

Wharncliffe Chase (south): Skylark - 20+ - Several singing ; Starling - c40 ; Meadow Pipit - c20 - Several singing ; Curlew - 1 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Stock Dove - Pair ; Kestrel - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - Pair

Wharncliffe Heath: Stonechat - 2 - Pair. Lucky escape from a low level sparrowhawk attack ; Reed Bunting - 2

Blackburn Meadows NR: Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male.

Bowden Housteads Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 - Singing male. 1st for the wood this year.

Bradway Bank: Chiffchaff - 2

Carver Fields, Hagg Lane: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Dunnock - 2

Catcliffe Flash: 320 - 3 - 2m; 1f, possibly more under willows ; Jay - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 14 ; Gadwall - 8 ; Canada Goose - 1pr ; Coot - 20 ; Tufted Duck - 7 - 5m; 2f ; Little Grebe - 3 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr

Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 5 ; Mallard - 1pr - river

Den Bank Wood: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Bullfinch - 5 - 3 f, 2 m ; Wren - 5+ ; Robin - 5+ ; Great Tit - 8+ ; Blue Tit - 10+ ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Dunnock - 3 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Blackbird - 5+ ; Black-headed Gull - 2 - Flying over ; Bullfinch - 6 - 3f, 3m ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Mistle Thrush - 1

Dore: Mandarin - 2 - A pair in Ash tree in observers garden

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 2 ; Mallard - 5 - 1 pair + 3 males ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Pair on main Res. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Over. ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing. ; Blackbird - 1 - Female flew from nest ; Redwing - 4

Grasscroft Wood: Chiffchaff - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 yaffling - Fields near Grasscroft Wood

Graves Park: Little Grebe - 1 - Diving for fish in the bottom lake

Hordron: Ring Ouzel - 1 - male singing briefly

Hundall: Greenfinch - 1 heard ; Chiffchaff - 1 heard

Langsett area: Crossbill - 10 - Including red adult males and juvs.

Low Hall Wood, High Green: 319 - 2

Loxley Valley: Blackcap - 1 - singing below Forge Valley School my first of the spring (none in winter)

Malin Bridge: Blackbird - 2 - softening mealworms in bird bath, definitely chicks in nest ...

Midhope Res: Chiffchaff - 1 ; Curlew - 23 ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 3 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Linnet - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Siskin - 1 ; Oystercatcher - Pair ; Mistle Thrush - 3 - 2 singing ; Fieldfare - 40+

Moscar Flat/Middle Moss: Wheatear - 2 - Males face to face scrapping, in spite of acres of moor to choose from! ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ ; Curlew - 2 - pair ; Red Grouse - 2+

Nether Handley: Woodpigeon - c80 ; Skylark - 1

Oaking Clough: Canada Goose - 2 - Pair at top of clough

Old Ravenfield: Greenfinch - 1 - Singing on St James View.