Sightings Archive

Sunday 17th March 2019

• Kilnhurst Ings: Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over ; Linnet - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing
• Kilnhurst Riverside: Long-tailed Tit - 6 ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - calling ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - singing
• Linacre Res: Mallard - 36 ; Tufted Duck - 25 ; Coot - 5 ; Moorhen - 7 ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Mandarin - 15 ; Cormorant - 3 ; Canada Goose - 2 ; 320 - 1 - male ; Black-headed Gull - 45 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 ; Stock Dove - 2 ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Song Thrush - 1
• Malin Bridge: Dunnock - 2 - pair nesting in ivy hedge.. ; Blackbird - 2 - pair nesting in ivy hedge. ; Siskin - 1 - male on Nyger feeder, rare garden visitor.
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 62 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 135 ; Starling - 2000+ ; Goosander - 2 - Pair in at 17.30
• Old Denaby: Song Thrush - 4 - inc 1 singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing from railway footbridge ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - female ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - singing ; Red-legged Partridge - 2 - scuttling along pavement ahead of car
• Old Denaby Flash: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8+ ; Moorhen - 2 ; Coot - 4 ; Shoveler - 2 - drakes ; Tufted Duck - 3prs ; Little Grebe - 1 - 'trilling' ; Bullfinch - 1 - male
• Orgreave: Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Magpie - 3+ ; Woodpigeon - 5+ ; Blue Tit - 3+ ; Skylark - c10 - singing males ; Great Tit - 2+ ; Meadow Pipit - c20 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Mute Swan - c7 ; Coot - 4+ ; Cormorant - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - c20 ; Lapwing - 8+ ; Goldeneye - 1+ ; Herring Gull - 2+ ; Goosander - 2+ - one pair at least ; Tufted Duck - 2+ ; Pochard - 1+ ; Wigeon - 8+ ; Gadwall - 8+ ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1+
• Orgreave Lakes: Little Gull - 1 - Still present at 0840 on small lake. ; Kittiwake - 1 - Adult on the island at 1045 then flew towards the main lake & not seen again. ; Little Gull - 1 - 1st winter on small lake at 14:00 ; Pink-footed Goose - 2 - dropped in to small lake with 6 Greylags ; Goosander - 1 - somewhat dishevelled looking female ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Gull - 1 - 1w constantly feeding on wing picking up insects and pattering on the surface of the water. ; Reed Bunting - 8 - on E shore of large lake ; Skylark - 15 - single flock, large lake ; Kingfisher - 1 - large lake overflow
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c400 - aerobatics overhead before landing in sown field
• R Don, Stevenson Rd: Great Black-backed Gull - 22 - loafing ; Herring Gull - 55 ; Common Gull - 1 - 2w ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - adults
• Redmires Res: Curlew - 95 - roosted on Top Res ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Woodcock - 1 - roding over Top Res at dusk ; Canada Goose - 60 - c. ; 320 - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 2 - pair back
• Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Curlew - 95 - roosted on shoreline