Sightings Archive

Sunday 10th April 2022

• Cartledge Stones Ridge: Lapwing - 1 - on ground, poss on nest
• Damflask Res: 320 - 2 - pair ; Great Crested Grebe - 2 - am
• Dukes Road: Meadow Pipit - 10+ - some territorial displays and chasing ; Skylark - 2+ - displaying males ; Golden Plover - 1 - heard in distance ; Kestrel - 1 - hover hunting over Hurkling Edge ; Curlew - 1 - displaying over Broomhead Moor ; Red Grouse - 5+ ; 319 - 1 - leisurely flying down Agden Dike ; Canada Goose - 2 - flying up Agden Dike ; Greylag Goose - 2 - Pair very likely on nest on Broomhead Moor
• Elsecar Res: Chiffchaff - 4 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 14 - inc display/soliciting ; Coot - 12 - inc pair with nest ; Greylag Goose - 6 ; Mallard - c110 - #NAME? ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult, left NE ; Mute Swan - 1pr - pen on nest ; Canada Goose - 2 ; Pink-footed Goose - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 4 ; Moorhen - 10 ; Song Thrush - 2 - 1 singing N-end; 1 S-end ; Nuthatch - 2 - singles singing, N- & S-ends ; Mistle Thrush - 1pr - carrying food ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Ring-necked Parakeet - 1 - eating sycamore buds, woodland at N-end
• Foulstone Delph: Robin - 4 - all singing ; Wren - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - perched in tree top ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - circling with 3 Buzzards that may be the same three seen earlier on Cartledge Stones Ridge
• Grange Park, 15th - 17th Fairways: Robin - 2 - singing ; Pied Wagtail - 1 - feeding ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Grange Park, Brown Spring, Level 1: Woodpigeon - 1 ; Dunnock - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Magpie - 1
• Grange Park, Brown Spring, Level 2: Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1+ - at least 1 singing ; Magpie - 1
• Grange Park, Gallery Bottom: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 - calls
• Grange Park, Lower Kennel Wood: Robin - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Goldfinch - 1+ - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Blackbird - 1
• Grange Park, Maiden&Far Banks: Wren - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing
• Grange Park, Upper Kennel Wood: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1 - singing ; Mallard - 2 - male ; Wren - 1 - singing ; Robin - 2 - singing ; Blackbird - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 - singing ; Jay - 1+
• Holling Dale: Red Kite - 1 - circling overhead @ 18.50.
• Hurlfield: Red Kite - 1 - flew NW over at 14:00 ; Kestrel - 1 - hunting over late morning ; Sparrowhawk - 4 - 4 birds over together mid-morning brief display ; Common Buzzard - 4+ - at least 4 birds over probably more 10:00-14:00 ; Magpie - 2 - a pair nest building in garden Hawthorn. ; Bullfinch - 2 - a pair on garden feeders. ; Blue Tit - 2 - a pair in nest box.
• Kimberworth Park: Grey Heron - 1 - low over roof tops, chased by Carrion Crow, Ashworth Drive.
• Malin Bridge: Collared Dove - 2 - Parent and young coming to feeder all day
• Middleton Moor: Canada Goose - 2 ; 320 - 2 ; Goosander - 3 - arrived at dusk ; Shelduck - 2 - pair ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Curlew - 49 - roosted