Sightings Archive

Saturday 8th April 2023

• Agden: Oystercatcher - 1 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Siskin - 1 - Male ; Raven - 2 ; 319 - 1 - Mobbed by Raven ; Nuthatch - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - Singing ; Mandarin - 2 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 3
• Agden Side: Willow Warbler - 1
• Alport Dale: Meadow Pipit - 40 - c. flock over A57
• Bowden Housteads Wood: Jay - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - 1 bird song flighting.
• Dog Kennel Pond: Cormorant - 5 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 3 ; Mallard - 1+
• Dore: Greenfinch - 1 - f gathering nest material in observer’s garden
• Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Coot - 2 ; Mute Swan - 2 - Resident pair. ; Mallard - 3 - 2 Drakes chasing Female. ; Little Grebe - 1 - Fishing. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 4 - In the air together. ; Kestrel - 1 - Male. ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - Calling in willows. ; Jackdaw - 1 - Over calling. ; Pheasant - 2 - Both Males. ; Song Thrush - 2 - Singing. ; Blackbird - 3 - Nests with eggs with sitting Females. ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Male on top of hedge. ; Linnet - 10+ ; Goldfinch - 5+ ; Chaffinch - 6+ - Numerous singing Male. ; Siskin - 1+ - Calling In tree tops above sluice. ; Willow Warbler - 3 - Singing. ; Chiffchaff - 8 ; Blackcap - 2 - Singing Males. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over. ; Skylark - 4 - Displaying over farmland. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Pair finishing off nest. ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 - Pair finishing off nest. ; Great Tit - 1 - Carrying food. ; Blue Tit - 1 - Carrying food. ; Stock Dove - 1
• Fulwood garden: Brambling - 7 - still visiting feeders, incl a couple of singing males
• Graves Park: Little Grebe - 3 - On Boating Lake ; Nuthatch - 1
• Greystones garden: Blackcap - 2 - 2 females in observer's garden
• Kimberworth Park: 319 - 1 - possibly 2, over Shepherd's Plantation then S toward Hudson's Rough
• Leash Fen: Lapwing - 2
• Low Common: Blackcap - 1 - singing from copse ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing from copse ; Lapwing - 1 - low SW
• Loxley Valley: Greenfinch - 1
• Middle Common: 319 - 1 - onto tree on boundary with Upper Common, then toward Scholes Coppice ; Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting from telegraph poles
• Middleton Moor: Fieldfare - 53 ; Shelduck - 4 - 2 prs ; Wigeon - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 10 ; Greylag Goose - 10 ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Lapwing - 11 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; 319 - 1
• Morley Pond: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 1 pair displaying ; Greylag Goose - 6 - some in adjacent fields ; Canada Goose - 9 ; Mallard - 10+ ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Coot - 3+ ; Moorhen - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 1+ ; Reed Bunting - 1 - singing, N side ; Nuthatch - 1 - singing ; Jackdaw - 6+ - at least 1 nest ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing
• Norton Lees: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
• Ponderosa: Chiffchaff - 1
• Porter Clough: Swallow - 5
• R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 3+ - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Kingfisher - 2 - around nesting bank ; Grey Wagtail - 2
• R Don, Rutland Rd: Sand Martin - 9 - Flying around over R Don late afternoon
• Rawmarsh Cemetery: Chaffinch - 2 - singing ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 1 - singing ; Tawny Owl - 1 - single call ; Blackcap - 2 - male singing with female sat a couple of feet away
• Rawmarsh; Rockcliffe Road: Common Buzzard - 1 - over from W, circled high & drifted N @ 1240hrs ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - over to W @ 1240hrs ; Chiffchaff - 1 - dropped out of sky into garden ivy for a few seconds before leaving N
• Rother Valley CP: Whooper Swan - 2 - mixing with mute swans on jet ski lake (long stay) ; Chiffchaff - 10+ - Chiffchaffs 10+ all singing in trees around Rother Valley