Sightings Archive

Sunday 11th April 2021

• Aldwarke SF: Pheasant - 2 - cocks ; Reed Bunting - 1 - male ; Chiffchaff - 3 - singing ; 320 - 3 - 2m; 1f ; Canada Goose - 01-Feb - behaviour suggesting bird on concealed nest nearby
• Aldwarke; Aldwarke Lane: Raven - 1 - low to W @ 0619hrs
• Aldwarke; Liberty Steel: Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing
• Blackburn Meadows NR: Jay - 1 ; Canada Goose - 1 - Sitting on nest in reeds ; Gadwall - 1 - Pecking at a dry section of the weir near Jordan lock. ; 319 - 2 - Flying over several times ; 324 - 1 - Orange tip butterfly on the main path around the reserve
• Canklow: Blackcap - 3 - Singing from Ickles roundabout too Canklow bridge 08.50 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing Canklow bridge 9.00
• Canklow Woods: Nuthatch - 1 - Alarm calling near possible nest hole 06.45 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming ; 319 - 1 - Disturbed by me, top end of woods, then over. ; Blackcap - 1 - Song near Boston Castle. ; Jay - 4
• Carhouse Meadows/Morehall: Mallard - 7 - one white female with 6 ducklings four yellow and 2 normal mallard colour ; Pheasant - 6 ; 319 - 3 - over and around meadows and res. ; Moorhen - 1 ; Curlew - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 9 ; Woodpigeon - 6 ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling and flying to trees ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming from tree on back path at side of res. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Robin - 03-Apr ; Blackbird - 4/5+ ; Chiffchaff - 03-Apr - all singing ; Wren - 2 ; Great Tit - 4 ; Blue Tit - 2 ; Magpie - 3 ; Jay - 1 ; Jackdaw - 8+ ; Carrion Crow - 04-May ; Chaffinch - 5+ ; Goldfinch - 11 ; Greenfinch - 2
• Catcliffe Flash: Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Jay - 1 ; Sand Martin - 9+ ; Black-headed Gull - 6+ ; Pochard - 1 ; Tufted Duck - 13 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1
• Centenary Riverside: Chiffchaff - 3 - 1 pair ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing 8.00 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Wren - 03-Apr - singing ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Dunnock - 4
• Cholera Monument Grounds: Blackcap - 1 - singing
• Coombs Dale: Blackcap - 1 - male singing
• Cowell Flat: Brambling - 1 - over calling
• Dale Dike Res: Whooper Swan - 24 - at 13:15
• Dalton: Goosander - 4 - 2m, 2f over to N ; Chiffchaff - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - flushed from Dalton Brook ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Rook - 08-Sep - attended nests on pylons
• Ecclesfield: 319 - 1 - 'Rollercoasting' display and calling above Trans-Pennine Trail. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 - 3 adults trying to feed on something on top of Morrison's petrol station roof.
• Endcliffe Park: Tawny Owl - 2 - Pair calling to each other in trees by upper pond, one flying across path at 02:55 ; Mandarin - 2 - Both males ; Grey Heron - 1 - On lower pool ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Jay - 1 - giving mewing Buzzard-like calls ; Blackcap - 2 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Pheasant - 3 - crowing ; Redwing - 2 ; Linnet - 2 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing
• Firsby Res: Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Mallard - 2 - Males. ; Canada Goose - 2 - Main Res. ; Pied Wagtail - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Swallow - 3 - First records of the year. ; Mistle Thrush - 1 - Carrying food. ; Song Thrush - 1 - Singing. ; Fieldfare - 20+ - Down in sheep paddock. ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - Over calling. ; Skylark - 2 - Singing. ; Pheasant - 1 - Male ; Blackcap - 3 - Singing Males.