Sightings Archive

Sunday 14th March 2021

• Firsby Res: Redwing - 15+ - With FF in cottage hedge. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Skylark - 1 - Singing over site. ; Siskin - 3+ - Over calling. ; Bullfinch - 8+ - In undergrowth along path both sides of Res. ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 3 - Pair and singing Male. ; Linnet - 1 - Over calling. ; Yellowhammer - 3 - All Males. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Pair nest building in Bramble. Further nest in progress nearby. ; Chiffchaff - 1 - On hedgerow on Arbour Lane.
• Fulwood garden: Reed Bunting - 1 - Around feeders again. ; Brambling - 1 ; Siskin - 3+ - Including 2 males and lots of song
• General Cemetery, Sharrow: Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Redwing - c15
• Graves Park: Jay - 1 ; Wren - 1 ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 heard
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Mallard - 49 - WeBS count ; Coot - 9 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Tufted Duck - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Canada Goose - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 42
• Kimberworth Park: Magpie - 1 - continuing nest building between Roughwood Road and Shearman Avenue.
• Linacre Res: Canada Goose - 5 - WeBS count ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Goosander - 2 - rh ; Moorhen - 10 ; Coot - 14 ; Grey Wagtail - 5 - 1 singing ; Tufted Duck - 108 ; Mallard - 74 ; Mandarin - 50 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40
• Malin Bridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - in gardens again
• Mayfield Valley: LONG-TAILED SKUA - 1 - adult still present this morning
• Meersbrook Park: Mistle Thrush - 1
• Middleton Moor: Dunlin - 5
• Moscar: Starling - 300 - c. in fields
• Mount Darnall: Carrion Crow - 78 ; Rook - 11 ; Starling - 54
• Nether Haugh; Clay Hill: Yellowhammer - 1pr ; Linnet - c30 - in set-aside/game cover ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - male ; Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 7 ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Lapwing - 2 - W
• New Stubbin colliery/tip: Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Yellowhammer - 8 - inc 6 singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing, Roman Ridge
• Old Ravenfield Pingle Lane Tip: Lapwing - 6 - All hunkered down on Farmland. ; Skylark - 4 - Singing over farmland.
• Peat Pits: Fieldfare - at least 80 - feeding in (Cote House) pasture alongside Starlings ; Starling - at least 60 - Feeding in (Cote House) alongside Fieldfares plus some bathing in puddle. ; Grey Plover - 1 - with Golden Plover flock, likely a first summer bird. ; Grey Plover - 1 - flight shot ; Golden Plover - 300+ ; Skylark - 6 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 - 1 singing ; Linnet - 10 ; Curlew - 3 ; Linnet - 50+
• Ramsley Moor: Tree Pipit - 2 - In trees behind pools. Semi displaying. ; Brambling - 2 - 2 Singing
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Mute Swan - 1 - W @ 0650hrs
• Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Long-tailed Tit - 4 ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Skylark - 01-Feb - singing over adjacent fields ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - adjacent field ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing
• Riggs HighRoad: 319 - 1
• Rivelin Valley: Curlew - c10 - Onksley Lane
• Scholes Coppice: Robin - 3+ - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - inc 1 singing near Studmore Road entrance. ; Jay - 1 - mimicking Buzzard calls, centre of wood(bmx track)
• Silverwood Lagoon: Red Kite - 1 - circling over lagoon end of pit top at 09.20 then gradually gained height and drifted off ENE ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Common Buzzard - 2 - displaying pair ; Reed Bunting - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Linnet - c.12