Hello again, I don't have the sightings book from Old Moor today but I do have quite a lot from Twitter.
However, I'll start with the news that the starling roost was greatly reduced last night via Jeff Wragg. Most likely due to the warmer weather and a want to go off to make a family of little starlings.
Ian Morris was at Old Moor and kindly tweeted his sightings and told us that he'd had 59 species today. Thank you Ian.
Here they are... a booming bittern, one black tailed godwit, 2 redshank, 1 green sadpiper, 1 water rail, 6 oystercatcher, 3 snipe, 2 shelduck, one male goosander, 6 goldeneye (3 of eachm/f), 3 grey heron, 2 med gull, 8 buzzard, one sparrowhawk, one kestrel, 2 great crested grebe (hopefully good news there), a chiffchaff and a green woodpecker.
Talking of 'fingers crossed' for the great crested grebes, John Leigh took this photo of them today. Thank you John.
The display of great crested grebes is simply wonderful to watch. Let's hope they like each other and stay :)
The Barnsley Birders (@Barnsleybsg) tweeted further sightings from Old Moor - a bittern booming,8 little egret, 2 shelduck, 9 goldeneye, 1 black tailed godwit, 6 oysterctacher and 2 med gull.
Whilst I was watching the starlings on Saturday, there was constant booming from two bitterns. Very frequent with 4/5 booms each time. Great to hear!
Another little video of the starlings...Starling murms are just amazing in my book. :)
Alan Stonier was at Edderthorpe this morning and tweeted these sightings. Thank you Alan.
1 oystercatcher, 1 redshank, 5 snipe, 3 shelduck, 16 pochard, 107 wigeon and his earliest ever willow warbler.
John Seeviour was at Bolton Ings today and he gave us the following sightings. Thanks John.
3 mute swan, 3 great crested grebe, 4 little grebe, 4 mallard, 4 gadwall, 7 shovelor, 21 tufted duck, 5 pochard, 14 cormorants, approx 250 black headed gull, 1 lesser black backed gull, 2 herring gull, 2 common gull, 2 grey heron, a kestrel, a buzzard, 4+ reed bunting, 5 bullfinches, 1 green woodpecker, 1 marsh tit, 3 brimstone butterflies (One of my favs!) and a hedgehog!
John Law was at Adwick and tweeted the following sightings - 11 avocet, 10+ redshank, 6+ yellowhammer and 20+ reed bunting in the sacrificial crop.Thank you John.
Ken Foundation was also at Adwick today and added the sighting of 6 redpoll on the TPT on Adwick Tip. Thank you Ken.
That's it for today and thanks to all who tweet sightings which makes my blog possible when I don't have the sightings from the book.
I'll leave you with a photo of a lovely tufted duck, (male), taken from the reedbed hide last weekend...yesterday in fact!