Sightings Archive

Tuesday 9th April 2019

• Greystones garden: Bullfinch - 1 - Male
• Heeley Retail Park: Jay - 4
• Hutcliffe Wood: Brambling - 2 ; Nuthatch - 3 - Including pair copulating ; Blue Tit - 14 - Including copulating pair ; Great Tit - 6 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 3
• Manor Fields Park: Moorhen - 7 - 2 adults 5 recently fledged young in reedbed/pond area. ; Mallard - 9 - 5 drakes on pond ; Swallow - 1 - flew low north at 10:43 ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Kestrel - 1
• Meadowhall: Sand Martin - 2 - Feeding on the River Don outside the Oasis.
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 46 - roosted ; Lapwing - 6 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 9 ; Black-headed Gull - 12 ; Fieldfare - 50 - c. ; Pied Wagtail - 90 - c. roosted in reedbed ; 320 - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2
• Norfolk Heritage Park: Nuthatch - 2+ - singing males ; Robin - 2+ ; Willow Warbler - 2+ - singing males ; Blackcap - 2+ - singing males ; Magpie - 2 - pair ; Coal Tit - 2+ - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 3+ - vocal in trees ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 4+ - one singing at lunchtime ; Woodpigeon - 6+ ; Blue Tit - 5+ - very vocal ; Great Tit - 1 - male singing ; Greenfinch - 2+ - males singing
• Norfolk Park: House Sparrow - c10 - in garden along Granville Rd.
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - 200
• Pit-house West: Water Rail - 2 - calling ; Swallow - 1 ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling at dusk ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Porter Brook: Raven - 2 - overhead ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - male hunting
• Redmires Res: Mallard - 18 - on Top Res ; 320 - 2 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair ; Oystercatcher - 1 - on Top Res ; Lapwing - 4 - on Top Res ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - pair of adults on Top Res
• Redmires Top Res: Greenfinch - 8 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 6 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - Male + Female ; Curlew - 2 - Calling ; Linnet - 30+ - Mobile flock, males in various stages of breeding plumage from partial to full. ; Meadow Pipit - 2 - At water’s edge ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - Male
• Rotherham Centre; Forge Island: Siskin - 2 - N @ 0753hrs
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Mute Swan - 44 - most left to w ; Gadwall - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 15 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Skylark - 5 - singing ; Sand Martin - 50 ; Swallow - 2 ; House Martin - 1 ; Wren - 13 - singing ; Dunnock - 8 - singing ; Robin - 20 ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 9 - 4 singing ; Blackcap - 7 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 8 - 8 singing ; Chaffinch - 12 - 7 singing ; Brambling - 7+ - at f/stat. ; Goldfinch - 16 ; Reed Bunting - 9 ; Yellowhammer - 2
• Tyzack*s Dam: Canada Goose - 8 - Four often very vocal pairs and a dearth of other water birds. ; Mallard - 3 ; Mandarin - 2 - two males ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 2 ; Stock Dove - 5 - Over
• Wadsley Common garden: Brambling - 5 - Including 2 singing males.
• Waverley: Golden Plover - 99 - Most almost full summer plumage
• Woolley Wood: Chiffchaff - 04-May ; Blackcap - 2
• Wyming Brook: Chiffchaff - 2 - Both singing close to top car park near Redmires ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 - Male + Female near feeders just down from top car park. ; Curlew - 3 - Overhead