Sightings Archive

Sunday 17th March 2019

• Redmires Top Res: Oystercatcher - 2 ; Canada Goose - 50 - this evening ; Greylag Goose - 8 - this evening
• Smithy Wood: Barn Owl - 1
• Stubley Hollow: Brambling - 1 ; 319 - 2 ; Skylark - 2 - singing
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Cormorant - 2 ; Mute Swan - 4 ; Tufted Duck - 69 ; 319 - 3 - soar in ne ; Red-legged Partridge - 4 - 02-Feb ; Water Rail - 3 ; Black-headed Gull - 50 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad n ; Skylark - 6 - singing ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Wren - 6 - singing ; Dunnock - 22 - 14 singing ; Robin - 18 - 13 singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 9 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Chaffinch - 11 - 6 singing + 1m with diseased legs ; Brambling - 24+ ; Bullfinch - 4 - 2pr ; Reed Bunting - 13 - 5 singing ; Yellowhammer - 3 - 1 singing ; Brambling - 1 - m
• Thrybergh Tip: Mute Swan - 2 - A pair nest building. ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Pochard - 1 - Male. ; Gadwall - 5 ; Snipe - 2 - In shallow pools to rear of large pond. ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing round site. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Yaffling ; Song Thrush - 5 - Singing ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 4 ; Long-tailed Tit - 8 ; Greylag Goose - 2 - Flying in ; Cormorant - 3 ; Shoveler - 2 - Male & female a pair ; 319 - 2 ; Jackdaw - 4 ; Magpie - 5
• Thrybergh; Carr Lane: Kestrel - 2 ; Coal Tit - 1 - singing ; Skylark - 2 - Grange Farm ; Woodpigeon - c400 - in trees along Hooton Brook
• Tinsley Park: Carrion Crow - 1+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Magpie - 2+ ; Robin - c4 - singing ; Goldfinch - c10 ; Woodpigeon - 3+ ; Mistle Thrush - 1+ ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Wren - 1+ - singing ; Carrion Crow - c100 - feeding in fields ; Jackdaw - c20 - feeding in fields ; Long-tailed Tit - 1= ; Skylark - 2+ - singing males on fields near former airstrip ; Meadow Pipit - 2+ - territorial display in fields near airstrip ; Starling - c15 ; Herring Gull - 2+ - on former airstrip ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2+ ; Mallard - 2+ - in pool in woodland by golf course
• Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1+ - singing ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; 319 - 1 - Near Shepherd's Plantation.
• Waleswood: Robin - 2+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Magpie - 2+ ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Long-tailed Tit - c6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Coot - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Pied Wagtail - 20-30 - feeding in sheep pasture ; Jackdaw - 30-40 - in sheep pasture with same numbers of carrion crows ; Meadow Pipit - 3+ - in sheep pasture ; Black-headed Gull - 30-24 - feeding in fields ; Starling - c20 ; Jay - 1 ; Linnet - c30 - feeding in sheep pasture
• Woodhouse Washlands: Black-headed Gull - 10+ ; Magpie - 3+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+ ; Blue Tit - 2+ ; Wren - 2+ ; 319 - 2 ; Goldfinch - 10+ ; Mute Swan - 2 ; Mallard - 3+ ; Skylark - 1+ ; Carrion Crow - 2+