Sightings Archive

Saturday 6th March 2021

• Load Brook: Crossbill - 6 ; Redwing - 30 ; Siskin - 2 ; Goldfinch - 10 ; Chaffinch - 2 ; Mallard - 4
• Longshaw: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling
• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - 40 + - in the general area
• Meersbrook Park: Nuthatch - 1
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 109 - Max count this spring
• Norton Lees garden: Long-tailed Tit - 2
• Orgreave Lakes: 320 - 4 - 2 pairs ; Wigeon - 7 ; Pochard - 2 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Redshank - 2 ; Lapwing - 20+ ; 319 - 2 ; Goosander - 2 ; Skylark - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Mandarin - 2 - Pair present on river since January
• Peat Pits: Lapwing - 10 - Circling above cross roads by Peat Pits farm and down the hill towards Tinkerbrook farm. With pair of Curlew ; Curlew - 2 ; Golden Plover - 150+ - In the air around Peat pits area
• R Don, Deepcar: Dipper - 2 - a pair near Station Rd
• Redmires Middle Res: Curlew - 169+ ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 72 - Roosted ; Ringed Plover - 1
• Rockingham Wood: 319 - 2 - Together low over N end of wood. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing
• Scholes Coppice: Stock Dove - 2 - singing ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming ; Robin - 4+ - singing ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1 - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - song and calls
• Scholes Ground: Lapwing - 1 - displaying
• Silverwood Lagoon: Chiffchaff - 1 - singing in Round Wood (Cenotaph Wood). Earliest-ever for site ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; Herring Gull - 4 - party east ; Common Buzzard - 2 - pair displaying over farmland to west ; Siskin - 2
• Storrs Dike: Skylark - 3+ - Singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Redwing - 1+ ; 319 - 1 ; Mallard - c60
• Thrybergh CP: Mute Swan - 74 ; Tufted Duck - 52 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Lapwing - 4 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 6 ; Fieldfare - C30 ; Redwing - 8 ; Blackbird - 18 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Song Thrush - 5 ; Red-legged Partridge - 8 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - Displaying ; 319 - 2 ; Linnet - C30 ; Chaffinch - 12 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Mute Swan - 74 ; Great Crested Grebe - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 44 ; Gadwall - 2 ; Black-headed Gull - C300 ; Sand Martin - 350+ - Birds building up all morning ; Swallow - 4 ; House Martin - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Blackcap - 4 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1m
• Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - singing ; Linnet - 60+ - Possibly close to 200 between Upper and Low Common (SK3996).
• West Wood, Tankersley: Jay - 9 - Single noisy group left wood and flew towards Wortley.
• Wet Shaw: Curlew - 90+
• Wharncliffe Chase: Kestrel - 1 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Skylark - c20 - Intermittent song ; Fieldfare - c45 ; Goldfinch - 8 ; Starling - c100 ; Stock Dove - 3 - Pair + another display flight ; Green Woodpecker - 1 ; Snipe - 1 ; Curlew - 3 ; Redwing - c40