Sightings Archive

Sunday 22nd March 2020

• Fulwood: 319 - 1
• Grange Park Golf Course: Kestrel - 1 - male in tree on 8th fairway ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Stock Dove - 3 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3+ - drumming and rattle calls ; Skylark - 3 - singing ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - calls, field W of Watson's Tip ; Wren - 6+ - singing ; Robin - 8+ - singing ; Dunnock - 3 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1+ - singing ; Redwing - 1+ - calls ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Goldcrest - 3 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - several pairs ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 2+ - at least 2 singing ; Jay - 1+ ; Magpie - 8+ ; Jackdaw - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - yaffle near Grange Lane
• Greystones: Song Thrush - 2 - Observer's Garden ; Bullfinch - 2 - M&F in OG ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Circling over OG ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 - OG
• Malin Bridge: 319 - 4 - One low over Hibberd Place and Malin Bridge Primary School; three others high overhead.
• Mayfield Valley: Chiffchaff - 1 - One singing just W of Quiet Lane bridge
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 10 ; Lapwing - c20 ; Shelduck - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair ; Coot - 1 ; Coot - 1 ; Goosander - 1 - fem ; Common Gull - c90 - c35 on lagoon then flew to fields, later single flock of c90 dropped in. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 6
• Midhope Res: Woodcock - 1 - Flew by in broad daylight at 16.05 ; Little Grebe - 1 - Trilling ; Siskin - 3+ - Display/song
• Millhouses: Blackcap - 3 - Now 3 in Stowe Avenue garden 2 males and 1 female
• Moss Valley: Linnet - C60 - In field near Mosborough ; Jay - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1 heard ; Pied Wagtail - c16 - In ploughed field off Plumbley Lane ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - In field off Plumbley Lane ; Long-tailed Tit - c.10 - Near Mosborough
• Moss Valley, lower: 324 - 1 - Peacock butterfly ; 324 - 2 - Small Tortoiseshells ; Kestrel - 1
• Nether Haugh: Coal Tit - 1 - singing
• New Stubbin Colliery/tip: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 3prs ; Skylark - 1 - singing over ; Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Yellowhammer - 7 - inc 4m ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - ad male, displaying ; Meadow Pipit - 4 - N ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Common Buzzard - 2 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 - calling ; Jay - 1
• New Stubbin; Back Lane: Yellowhammer - 2 - inc 1 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1
• Norton Lees: Whooper Swan - 28 - flock NNW at 17.57
• Onesacre: Whooper Swan - 30 - flying West ; Whooper Swan - 30 - Flying west
• Onesmoor: Whooper Swan - 37 - heading north at 18.10
• Orgreave Lakes: Whooper Swan - 2 - A pair dropped in for a rest around 08:15 ; Whooper Swan - 2 - another photo ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing between the bridges ; Goldeneye - 2 ; Ringed Plover - 1 ; Whooper Swan - 87 - Flew north at 07:42. Two dropped onto Small Lake much to the annoyance if the resident Mutes, ; Little Ringed Plover - 2 ; Goosander - 4 ; Whooper Swan - 2 - still present on large lake at 12.00 ; Sand Martin - 2 ; Skylark - 8 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Redshank - 01-Feb ; Reed Bunting - 5 ; Goldeneye - 6 ; Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Stock Dove - 5
• Oughtibridge: Chiffchaff - 1 - Calling in woods at the back of Oughtibridge Surgery
• Owlthorpe: Chiffchaff - 2+ - heard during walk on Owlthorpe Fields.
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c500 ; Lapwing - c30 - Widespread in the area ; Curlew - 1