Hello there, today I have the sightings from the book and from Twitter.
I'll start with the news that both the firecrest and the yellow browned warbler were still at Wombwell Ings today.
The Barnsley Birders tweeted this new early on which enabled many more people to go and have a look at these two fabulous birds. Also at Wombwell today were 29 beautiful and gorgeous whooper swans - you know by now I love whoopers! They then tweeted sightings of 3 male goldeneye at Broomhill along with a redshank and from Old Moor there was a bittern in the overflow car park pond! That's a new one :)
If you are going to see the firecrest and yellow browned warbler at Wombwell then please do stay on the banking.
John Clarkson was at Edderthorpe and Houghton today. He tweeted these sightings - In the Edderthorpe area there were 10 shelduck, 25 pochard and then whooper swan and dunlin on Houghton. A red kite was reported by Alan Stonier over Edderthorpe.
John Seeviour was at Bolton today and reported the following sightings, again via Twitter - John saw 2 mute swans, a great crested grebe, 6+ mallards, 7 gadwall, 11 shovelor, 28 tufted duck, 4 pochard, 4 goldeneye, 187 coot, 3 buzzard, a cc marsh harrier, 6 comrorant, 2 grey heron, 13 lapwing, 78 black headed gull, a marsh tit, 2 bullfinches and a jay.
Gary Stones was at Adwick and reported the following sightings - one male stonechat, 2 little egret, 5 grey partridge, one white fronted goose, 2 pink footed geese, c80 greylag geese, one redhanks, 5 snipe 100+ lapwing, 2 shelduck, 17 shovelor, 10 tufted duck, c200 wigeon, c80teal and c80 gadwall.
Adam Hutt reported 30+ redpoll by the footpath which is parallel to the TPT.
What a lot on Twitter today!
A photo...A seemingly pensive robin...
Next to the book from Old Moor today.
I shall start with the sightings from Wath Ings: wigeon, teal, shovelor, goldeneye, 2 dunlin, 1 green sandpiper, grey heron and snipe.
Next to the Wader Scrape. Here there were sightings of goosander...and that's it!
From the screen at Green Lane come sightings of: song thrush, bullfinches, goldfinches,chaffinches, reed bunting and tree sparrows.
Sightings from the Mere today included cc marsh harrier (also from the reedbed screen), buzzard, peregrine, goosander, green sandpiper and redshank.
From the reedbed hide today we did not have a sightings of a nicely iced jellyfish (previous blog), but we had have reports of - tufted duck, coots, mallards, moorhen, black headed gulls, Canada and greylag geese, cormorants, teal and oystercatcher.
Great crested grebe, little grebe, green sandpiper and gadwall were seen from the Bittern Hide.
The bird garden had all the usual current suspects as did the Tree Sparrow Farm with a welcome newcomer as in siskin and yellowhammer.
Phew, that's about it so I shall sign off with another photo.A hungry chaffinch in the bird garden.