Sightings Archive

Thursday 17th October 2019

• Ewden Height: Goldfinch - 25 south ; Starling - 13 SW ; Cormorant - 2 south ; Yellowhammer - 4 - 3+1 south ; Fieldfare - 8 south ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 south ; 327 - 10 south ; Brambling - 9 south ; Siskin - 15 south ; Lapwing - 4 south ; Great Tit - 5 - Singles flew low south across moorland fringe before finding cover. ; Swallow - 2 south ; Reed Bunting - 2 south ; Linnet - 10 south ; Crossbill - 2+ south
• Grange Golf Course: 319 - 3 - Calling 2.30pm ; 327 - 2 ; Redwing - 30+ ; Green Woodpecker - 1
• Middleton Moor: Lapwing - 16 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - c. 70 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 6 ; Rook - c.10
• Norfolk Heritage Park: Common Buzzard - 1 - Yet another early morning bird in the park, flushed from trees by corvids.
• Redmires Res: Mallard - 126 ; 320 - 12 ; Tufted Duck - 7 ; Pink-footed Goose - 60 - flew SE at 18:00 hrs ; Lapwing - 80 - c. on Middle Res ; Golden Plover - 60 - c. on Middle Res
• Ringinglow village: Brambling - 1 - Amongst 50 or 60 Chaffinches, so could have been more
• Rother Valley CP: Mute Swan - 28 ; Pink-footed Goose - c310 - NW in two skeins - 11:20 to 11:30 ; Canada Goose - 537 ; Greylag Goose - 94 ; Mallard - 237 ; Gadwall - 10 ; Wigeon - 138 ; Shoveler - 2 ; 320 - 0 - Zero ; Tufted Duck - 81 ; Pochard - 17 ; Great Crested Grebe - 39 ; Cormorant - 36 ; 321 - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 149 ; Coot - 314 ; Moorhen - 35 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Skylark - 11 - Singles, all S.
• Shepherd*s Plantation: 319 - 3 - Together over wood and Close To Kimberworth Park pub, 13:20 - 13:30. ; Common Buzzard - 1 - soaring over @ c1300hrs
• Silverwood: Mistle Thrush - 5 - on wires to north of woods ; Skylark - 8 - in stubble field to north of woods ; Yellowhammer - 2 - with Skylarks ; Jay - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Goldcrest - 4 ; Coal Tit - 3 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Chaffinch - c.10
• Silverwood Lagoon: Tawny Owl - 1 - calling in Hollings Lane sidings pre-dawn ; Mallard - 6 ; Coot - c.15 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Moorhen - 5 ; Little Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 1pr ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 40 ; Reed Bunting - 8 ; Linnet - 3 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Skylark - 40+ - steady passage south in ones and twos ; Lesser Redpoll - 1 - SW ; Redwing - 4 - in paddocks near Hollings Lane entrance ; Raven - 1 - west at 07.50 ; Common Buzzard - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Jay - 6 ; Woodpigeon - c.200 - in stubble to west
• Stocksbridge: Willow Tit - 1 - On Steel Valley Walk, near Hunshelf Road
• Thorncliffe Ind.Estate, Chapeltown: 319 - 4 - Circling together 12.30
• Thrybergh CP: Little Grebe - 9 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Cormorant - 7 ; Mute Swan - 11 - res.pr +3j +pr +4j these 4j left w ; Canada Goose - 80 ; Pochard - 7 - 5m2f ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Lapwing - 50 - + ; Black-headed Gull - 200 ; Herring Gull - 1 - a ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - s ; Skylark - 13 - s ; Meadow Pipit - 13 - s