Sightings Archive

Sunday 24th February 2019

• Langsett: Blue Tit - 8+ - Thickwoods area ; Great Tit - 3+ - Thickwoods area ; Chaffinch - 10+ - in plantation areas ; Greenfinch - 3+ - Wheezing. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Thickwoods area ; Raven - 2 - over Thickwood Brook ; Carrion Crow - 1 - mobbing ravens ; Goldfinch - c5 ; Siskin - 3+ - Thickwoods area
• Lea Brook/Lane: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - male ; Yellowhammer - 2 - 1 over; 1 singing ; Grey Heron - 1 - over to S/SW ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Song Thrush - 2 - inc one singing
• Longley Park: Pied Wagtail - 7 - Male and two females investigating nest hole,one male,and another male and two females.
• Longshaw: Brambling - 1+ ; Crossbill - 1 - flew over calling
• Loxley Valley: Blackcap - 2 - Pair of Blackcap in garden
• Manor Fields Park: Brambling - 2 - a pair on feeders 08:30 ; Linnet - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Goldfinch - 15+ ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Redwing - 1 ; Song Thrush - 6+ - minimum 6 most singing ; Water Rail - 2 - 2 birds in watercourse.1 in high end 1 central at 08:15-08:45 ; Mallard - 10 - 5 pair on pond
• Meersbrook Allotments: Pink-footed Goose - 30 - Single skein over heading N at 17:20
• Middleton Moor: Curlew - 26 ; Wigeon - 10 ; Shoveler - 1 - Drake
• Midhope: Curlew - c60 - Either in rushy pasture off Low Moor Rd or flying to it. Also approx. 40 flying east from (feeding perhaps) fields N of Res. ; Woodpigeon - c5 - 1 "singing" ; Goldeneye - 2 - pair ; Starling - c20 - in rushy pastures off Low Moor Rd. ; Tufted Duck - c6 - on Res. ; 320 - c6 ; Mallard - c20 ; Canada Goose - 2+ ; Siskin - c10 ; Crossbill - c5 - feeding in spruce trees along Gill Royd Lane ; Carrion Crow - 3+ ; Coal Tit - 10+ ; Blue Tit - 5+ ; Great Tit - 3+ ; Robin - 3+ ; Blackbird - 3+ ; Mistle Thrush - c2 - one singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - one singing ; Goldcrest - c5 - singing ; Chaffinch - c10 - feeding on cones alongside crossbills
• Midhope Res: Greylag Goose - c30 - some in fields, others on reservoir ; Canada Goose - 4+ - on res. ; Oystercatcher - 3 - flew over ; Kestrel - 1 ; Cormorant - 1 - perched on buoy ; Little Grebe - 2 - showing courtship behaviour ; Pheasant - c4 ; Jay - c5 - chasing each other through hawthorn tree and on ground ; Lapwing - c80 - in or flying toward rushy pasture off Low Moor lane
• New Stubbin; Back Lane: Lapwing - 12 - in cereal crop ; Black-headed Gull - 60-70 ; Skylark - 1 - in cereal crop
• Padley Gorge: Brambling - 1
• Peat Pits: Golden Plover - c100 - in cereal field ; Lapwing - 26 - with G.Ps . ; Starling - c300 - single group feeding in rough pasture . ; Curlew - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 5 ; Kestrel - 2 - hunting over rough pasture .
• R Don, Aldwarke: Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 11 - 5prs + 1m ; Moorhen - 1pr ; Kingfisher - 01-Feb - around traditional nesting site ; 320 - 1pr - dropped in ; Bullfinch - 1 - male ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6+ ; Goldcrest - 1pr ; Grey Wagtail - 1
• Ravenfield Park: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Mute Swan - 1 - Resident pair. ; Little Grebe - 2 - On match pond. ; Herring Gull - 1+ - Call only. ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Perched on fish nursery. ; Siskin - 15+ - In small parties. ; Coal Tit - 1
• Redmires conduit: Pink-footed Goose - c70 - skein flying north at 10:30 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - at outfall to top reservoir ; Red Grouse - 1 - plenty of red grouse activity but one bird perched in pathside hawthorn eating lichen from twigs. ; Red Grouse - 1 - close up of same bird ; Curlew - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Lapwing - 3 ; Coal Tit - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Red Grouse - 1 - further shot of male displaying and calling