Sightings Archive

Sunday 28th April 2019

• Centenary Riverside: Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Sand Martin - 2 - over ; Mallard - 1pr ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 2 - singing ; Kingfisher - 1 - several visits to flash, returning to river ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Moorhen - 01-Feb ; Gadwall - 1pr - river ; Grey Heron - 1 - river ; Canada Goose - 1 - river ; Long-tailed Tit - 1pr ; Sand Martin - 2 - over ; Kestrel - 1 - male, over
• Fenny Common: Wheatear - 2+ - possibly two pairs of Wheatears staying close to dry stone wall ; Golden Plover - 2 - on Earnshaw ridge route to Pike Lowe ; Meadow Pipit - c4 ; Curlew - 4+ - pairs on ground calling and calling while flying over lower, wet, rushy areas (Shaw Clough and Half Holes Spring. ; Greylag Goose - c4 ; 324 - 2+ - Green Hairstreak butterflies around Bilberry Plants ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting ; Lapwing - c6 - In lower, wet, rushy areas
• Firsby Res: Mallard - 2 - Pair on main Res. ; Mute Swan - 1 - Pair still present. ; Pheasant - 1 ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Bullfinch - 2 ; Chaffinch - 1 - Singing Male. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing. ; Reed Bunting - 2 - Pair ; Chiffchaff - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 4 - All singing. ; Blackcap - 3 ; Whitethroat - 2 ; Sedge Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Skylark - 1
• Grange Park Golf Course: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 10+ ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Flew from tree in area of gorse. ; Skylark - 1 - singing @ Watson's Tip ; Wren - 6+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 7+ ; Blackbird - 4+ - singing ; Song Thrush - 3+ - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - singing ; Blackcap - 6+ - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Whitethroat - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 2+ ; Coal Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Bullfinch - 1 - singing @ Walkworth Wood
• Kimberworth Park: 319 - 2 - In continual "dog fight" with single corvid mainly over Shepherd's Plantation.
• Lockerbrook: Tree Pipit - 6+ - 6+ around Hagg Farm, Lockerbrook and Ouzelden
• Longshaw: Redstart - 2 ; Wren - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 6
• Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Curlew - c8 ; Snipe - c8 - most seen perched on dry-stone- walls, "chipping". ; Lapwing - c10 - inc two, downy stage chicks feeding amongst grass with both parents in attendance ; Oystercatcher - 1 ; Greylag Goose - c10 - about 5 adults with 5 - 6 goslings in tow ; Meadow Pipit - c2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Skylark - 2+
• Meersbrook Allotments: Raven - 1 - Flew low from Cat Lane Woods over allotments ; Bullfinch - 1
• Middleton Moor: Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 - dropped in at c09:25 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Whitethroat - 3 ; Redstart - 3 ; Shelduck - 2 ; Wheatear - 2 ; Swallow - 2 ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 - Flew off around 12.40 ; Whimbrel - 2 - Arrived around 13.30,flew north with 1curlew around 14.00
• Midhope Res: Willow Warbler - c10 ; Pheasant - c6 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Coal Tit - 5+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Blackbird - 3+ ; Wren - 2+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Robin - 4+ ; Swallow - 6+ ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - by farm in Upper Midhope ; Greylag Goose - 10+ - in pasture off Midhope Lane ; Linnet - c10 - in flock that landed in treetops by Shaw Lane ; Woodpigeon - 2 ; Jackdaw - 6+ - in trees near Hagg Bridge