Sightings Archive

Thrybergh CP: 319 - 1

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 ; Fieldfare - 7 - S @10:15. ; Kestrel - 1 - Out from Shepherd,s Plantation, possibly disturbed by motor bikes?

Bolehill Flash: Pink-footed Goose - 1+ - unseen flock calling in fog @10.50,sounded to be going north-west

Catcliffe Flash: Wigeon - 82 ; Gadwall - 87 ; Shoveler - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - 84 ; Coot - 91 ; Tufted Duck - 9 ; Pochard - 5 ; Mute Swan - 7 ; Moorhen - 11 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mallard - 18 ; Little Grebe - 4

Dore: Fieldfare - c250 ; 321 - 1

Elsecar Res: Wigeon - 2 ; 320 - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 ; Goosander - 1 - redhead

Firsby Res: Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 30+ - Feeding in tree tops. ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Fieldfare - 20+ ; Redwing - 30+ - Feeding on berries ; Goldcrest - 5

Graves Park: 321 - 1 - Being mobbed by gulls over bottom lake ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 heard ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 heard

Malin Bridge: Redwing - c40 - nocmig : decent overnight movement: 4 calls 05:00-07:00, 51 calls 18:00-00:00 ; Dunlin - 1+ - nocmig series of calls 20:11, 20:14 and 20:30, possibly 3 birds involved. ; Blackbird - 2 - nocmig 19:37 and 20:25

Markham: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - in reed / scrub ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Redwing - 60 - c. grounded in bushes ; Song Thrush - 1 - with Redwings ; Blackbird - 5 - with Redwings ; Yellowhammer - 2 - In scrub below M1

New Stubbin colliery/tip: Common Buzzard - 1 - calling; mostly 'earbirding' today in thick fog! ; Jay - 3 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Lesser Redpoll - 7 - in birches ; Goldcrest - 04-May ; Kestrel - 1 ; Greenfinch - 6 - together ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Linnet - 10 - feeding in tops of birches; one singing ; Yellowhammer - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - c15 ; Thrush sp - large flock - noisy, mixed spp., feeding in dense Hawthorn scrub. Impossible to estimate numbers; in order of abundance: RE, B, FF, ST

Poolsbrook CP: Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Greenfinch - 18 - emerged from roost at dawn - off E ; House Sparrow - 10 - c. On feeders in car park

Poolsbrook Marsh: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 20 - c. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Water Rail - 2 - one calling from Signal Box pool + another by Doe Lea

Poynton Wood: Tawny Owl - 1 heard

Rawmarsh Cemetery: Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Goldcrest - 1

Rawmarsh; Bellows Road: Starling - c50 - on mobile mast, many singing

Rawmarsh; Stubbin incline: Pheasant - 16 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling ; Redwing - c20 ; Blackbird - 20+ - lots of Blackbirds about today ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 1 ; Chaffinch - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Coal Tit - 1

Thrybergh CP: Redshank - 1 - Called 3 times in fog at 10:30AM. ; Wigeon - 1 - Male.

Treeton Dyke: Tufted Duck - 24 ; Black-headed Gull - 148

Wentworth Lakes: Kingfisher - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Fieldfare - c30 ; Redwing - 1+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 12 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 30+ ; Pheasant - 70+ ; Reed Bunting - 2

Wharncliffe Chase (south): 320 - 6 - flew over towards Wharncliffe Wood

Wharncliffe Wood: Lesser Redpoll - 140+ - flock feeding on silver birch seeds ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Raven - 1 ; Redwing - 12 ; Pink-footed Goose - 5+ - at least 5 over wood, fog prevented counting