Sightings Archive

Monday 6th May 2019

• Firsby Res: Chaffinch - 2+ - Pair taking food intolerances nest in wall. ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing in opposite reed beds. ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 4 ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Skylark - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Swift - 30+ - Over Ravenfield Park. ; House Martin - 5 - On Arbour Lane. ; Swallow - 10+ - With HM. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female circling high over site.n ; Blue Tit - 2 - A pair taking food into nest in stone wall. ; Goldcrest - 2 - 1 singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - Gathering insects.
• Grange Park Golf Course: 319 - 1 - "Dog fight" with Carrion Crow. ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing @ Gallery Bottom. ; Woodpigeon - 6+ - singing and displaying ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffle nr Watson's Tip. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2+ - Pos chicks calls @ Upper Kennel Wood. ; Swallow - 2+ ; Skylark - 1 - singing @ Watson's Tip. ; Wren - 8 - singing ; Dunnock - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 3+ - 2 singing ; Song Thrush - 4+ - 4 singing ; Mistle Thrush - 3 ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 4 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 10 - singing ; Blackcap - 8+ - singing, 1 female seen. ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 10+ - inc 1 family party @ Brown Spring. ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ - singing ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 1 ; Magpie - 2+ ; Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Chaffinch - 6+ - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ ; Bullfinch - 1+
• Green Moor: Grey Partridge - 2 - Pair ; House Sparrow - 10+ - One family party with at least 4 young
• High Bradfield: Blackcap - 2+ ; Chaffinch - 3+ ; Garden Warbler - 1+ ; Robin - 1+ ; Willow Warbler - 2+ ; Pheasant - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2+ ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Jackdaw - 4 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Stock Dove - 1 - Flew out of old cruck barn near Rocher Rocks ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; 324 - 2+ - Ashy Mining Bee - some near nests on the bank between village and Rocher Rocks, others in St Nick's churchyard
• Kiveton Community Woodland: Little Egret - 1 - One still visiting the site, now in breeding plumage.
• Low Bradfield: Blackcap - 3+ ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 2+ ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Chaffinch - 2+ ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Wren - 2 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Jackdaw - 2 ; Greylag Goose - 2 ; Woodpigeon - 2+ ; Goldfinch - 3+ ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Garden Warbler - 1 ; Oystercatcher - 1
• Malin Bridge: Swift - 2 - over breeding area
• Moorgate, Rotherham: Raven - 2 - 2 juvs loafing around Duke of Norfolk estate between 11:20-12:10 before heading back towards Ulley.
• Ravenfield - Undisclosed site.: Tawny Owl - 3 - Male keeping close watch on 2 owlets high up in a tree.
• Redmires conduit: Curlew - 2 - feeding together in horse fields
• Redmires Top Res: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Pair mating in roadside tree ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 5 - 2 adults, showing courtship behaviour and chasing off 3 immature birds
• Rivelin Dams: Common Sandpiper - 2
• Rocher Cliffs: Carrion Crow - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 ; Redstart - 2+ - one pair seen and other birds heard but not seen ; Wren - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Robin - 1 ; Blackbird - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 2 ; Nuthatch - 1
• Rockingham: 319 - 3 - In air together
• Silver Wood: Reed Warbler - 2 - singing on r/way line pond