Sightings Archive

Saturday 22nd April 2023

• Firsby Res: Blackcap - 2 - Singing Males. ; Chiffchaff - 5+ - All singing. ; Goldfinch - 3+ - Inc sitting Female near houses. ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 - Nest with eggs. ; Swallow - 2+ - Over alarm calling.
• Fulwood garden: Cormorant - 1 - N ; Brambling - 3 - incl singing male ; House Martin - 1 - N ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; 319 - 2 - soaring
• Hillsborough Park: Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing near the pond.
• Holmebrook Valley Park: Willow Warbler - 1 - singing in trees next to lake. First one seen here in 3 years! ; Blackcap - 1 - Male singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing near lake ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing ; Tufted Duck - 2 - 1 me and 1 female ; Great Crested Grebe - 1
• Leash Fen (edges): Raven - 2 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Linnet - 3+ ; Lapwing - 2 ; Pheasant - 1 ; Goldfinch - 1
• Meadowhall Roundabout: Kestrel - 1
• Norton Lees: Goldfinch - 4 - Chattering
• Orgreave Lakes: Greenshank - 1 ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Black-tailed Godwit - 2 - One full summer plumage islandica type. Dropped in from the north at 09.35. ; Arctic Tern - 1 - In at 09.10 then out high east at 09.15. ; Black-tailed Godwit - 2 - Photo ; Black-tailed Godwit - 2 ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 1 ; Greenshank - 1 ; Redshank - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 1 ; Skylark - 10+ ; Common Sandpiper - 2 - PM ; Tufted Duck - 18 ; Bar-tailed Godwit - 1
• Pingle Lane Tip: Yellowhammer - 2 - Pair together. ; Linnet - 4+ - Along approach track. ; Swallow - 1 - Over crops. ; 319 - 1 ; Skylark - 4 ; House Sparrow - 3+ - In Horse Paddock Hedge. ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing Male.
• Ramsley Moor: Whinchat - 1 - male ; Stonechat - 2 - pair ; Coal Tit - 2 ; Goldfinch - 7 ; Kestrel - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 2
• Redmires conduit: Lapwing - 10 - several displaying/ on nests ; Curlew - 3 - display flights ; Wheatear - 2 ; Goldcrest - 2 - singing ; Red Grouse - 4 - incl. territorial display
• RVCP: Shoveler - 3 ; Goldeneye - 1
• Silver Wood: 319 - 1 - Circling Woodland. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Roosting in treetops. ; Skylark - 2 - Singing over surrounding farmland. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - On hedge along path to woods from Old Ravenfield. ; Nuthatch - 5+ - Lots of activity and calling round wood. At least 2 nests. ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Jay - 2 - Near sub-station. ; Treecreeper - 1 - Calling. ; Chaffinch - 3+ ; Pheasant - 2 - Pair.
• Soughley Lane, Redmires: Swallow - 4+
• Thrybergh CP: Sparrowhawk - 3 - Displaying ; 319 - 3 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Swallow - 30+ ; Sand Martin - 100+ ; House Martin - 10+ ; Willow Warbler - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 6 ; Blackcap - 5 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Yellow Wagtail - 2 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 24 - Small movement north early morning mostly in 2&3
• Ughill: Linnet - c100 - foraging in field off Corker Lane
• Wadsley Common garden: Swallow - 2 - First here this year.
• Wharncliffe Heath NR: Pied Flycatcher - 4 - 4 males singing ; Tree Pipit - 2 - Singing ; Brambling - 1 - Female feeding on ground ; Willow Warbler - 27 - singing ; Robin - 94 - singing ; Wren - 57 - singing ; Nuthatch - 10+ - 6 singing ; Linnet - 5 - 3 singing ; Goldcrest - 6 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing