Wintersett Sightings 25.03.2025

Anglers CP:

Goosander 1 male flew east.   Shoveler 4 males + 3 females.

Teal 16.   Snipe 1.   Meadow Pipit 50 north.   Sand Martin 13 north.

Moorhouse Lane Ponds:

Great White Egret 1.

Moths:

Early Tooth-striped Moth 1  -  (at the security Lights).

Wintersett Sightings 24.03.2025

Anglers CP: 

Kittiwake 1 adult.   Rock Pipit 1.   A Merlin flew north west.

Swallow 1.   Snipe 9.   Pochard 8.   Shoveler 5.   Teal 12.

Goldeneye 31.   Great Crested Grebe 2.   Red Kite 1.  Curlew 1.

Wintersett Res:

Cetti's Warblers 4 singing males.   Goldeneye 71.   

Great Crested Grebe 6.    Blackcap 1 male.  Water Rail 1.

Kingfisher 1.   Treecreeper 2.   Tawny Owl 2.

Cold Hiendley Res:

Curlew - 1 flew south west.   Cetti's Warbler 1 male.

Goldeneye 10.   Great Crested Grebe 7.

31 Singing Chiffchaffs were throughout the area! 

Wintersett Sightings - 23.03.2025

Anglers CP:

Great White Egret 1.   Little Egret 1.   Swallow 1.

Sand Martin 3.   Shoveler 3 males + 1 female.

Teal 17.   Pochard 4 males + 4 females. 

Wintersett Res:

Sand Martin 1.   Cetti's Warbler 1 singing male.  

Wintersett Sightings 22.03.2025

Anglers CP: 

Shoveler 11 males + 5 females.    Pochard 4 males + 4 females.

Wigeon 192.   Teal 10.   Snipe 3.   Redwing 1. 

Wintersett Res:

Wigeon 29.   Blackcap 1 singing male.

Cettis Warbler 4 singing males. 

Cold Hiendley Res:

Great White Egret 1.   Cetti's Warbler 1 singing male. 

Carlton Marsh

Tilled land east of the reserve produced 20 Carrion Crows, 10 Mistle Thrushes, c30 Linnets, 10 Pied Wagtails, 6 Skylarks and a Little Ringed Plover north (JP).

Low Cudworth to Storrs Mill (via the old Midland Railway)

Red Kite, 4 Buzzards, 4 Grey Wagtails, 4 Grey Partridges, 4 Lapwings and 2 Coal Tits.

Also 3 Peacock, 5 Small Tort. 15 Comma, 2m Brimstone and a very early Orange-tip (my earliest ever anywhere). 2 Short-tailed Field Voles, 2 Dark-edged Bee-fly and a female Grass Snake. Wood Anemone is just coming into flower (C. Parkin). 

Wintersett Sightings 21st March 2025

Anglers CP: 

A Spoonbill flew high north at 06.10hrs.  

Woodcock 2.   Pochard 9.   Shoveler 14.   Wigeon 187.

Teal 9.   Lapwing 21.   Snipe 1.  Redwing 30. 

Wintersett Res:

Kingfisher 1.   Cetti's Warbler 2 singing males.

Water Rail 1.   Grey Wagtail 2.

Haw Park:

Redpoll 2.   

Moorhouse Lane Ponds:

Great White Egret 1.

Walton Hall:

Whooper Swan 1 adult. 

Carlton Marsh

New in this morning a pair of Shoveler and a Green Sandpiper on the wader scrape. 14 Herring Gulls and 4 LBB Gulls were also present (J. Finch/CG).

                             Both photos of Buzzard by Simon Cox

Additional this afternoon a Treecreeper.

Butterflies were out in force today with 7 Brimstone (all males), 7 Peacock, 5 Small Tort. 23 Comma and a Small White. Not forgetting 2 Bee Fly (C. Parkin).

Wintersett 20th March 2025

Anglers CP:

2 Red Kites flew east at 09.20hrs.    Wigeon 184. 

Teal 10.   Pochard 5.   Snipe 6.

Butterflies ACP: 

Large White 1.   Comma 2.   Peacock 1.  Brimstone 1 male. 

Wintersett Res:

A Great White Egret was on Botany Bay. 

Wigeon 22.   Cetti's Warbler 3 males.

Redwing 3.  

Butterfly -  Small Tortoiseshell 1. 

Carlton Marsh & Dearne Valley Park

Carlton Marsh

The usual ducks and geese were busy arguing over nest sites. The best of the rest were an adult 'Sinensis' Cormorant, 2 Snipe, 3 singing Cetti's Warblers and 14 Pied wagtails on tilled land nearby (J. Finch/CG).

 

Dearne Valley Park - Hoyle Mill 

4 Grey Wagtails, 16 Greylag Geese, a breeding pair of Mute Swans and 4 cygnets.

20 Comma and 5 Small Tortoiseshells were abroad and Scarlet Elf Cup fungi was common 

(C. Parkin)

Wintersett Sightings 19.03.2025

Anglers CP:

Redshank 2.   Shoveler 6.   Teal 8.   Pochard 7.   Tufted Duck 28.

Wintersett Res:

Great White Egret 1.   Tawny Owl 1.   Wigeon 22.

Pochard 3.   Tufted Duck 113.

 

 

Carlton Marsh

A 'Cream Crown' Marsh Harrier came in over the top fields from the north, but left at 09.15hrs after being harassed by gulls (JP).

Wintersett March WeBS. 2025

Wintersett - March WeBS.

Mute Swan 12.   Canada Goose 21.   Greylag Goose 1.  

Cormorant 16.   Great Crested Grebe 14.   Coot 93.   Moorhen 22.

Mallard 74.   Teal 12.   Shoveler 4.   Gadwall 22.   Wigeon 243.   

Tufted Duck 125.   Pochard 16.   Goldeneye 110.   Goosander 1.   

Lapwing 36.   Oystercatcher 4.   Snipe 12.   Grey Heron 3.   

Great White Egret 1.   Kingfisher 1.  Yellow-legged Gull 1 4th Winter.

Wintersett Sightings 18.03.2025

 Anglers CP:

 Shoveler 2 males.   Goosander 1 Redhead.   Snipe 2.

 Wintersett Res: 

Pochard 3.   Gadwall 6.   Cetti's Warbler 2 males.

Carlton Marsh

A Yellow-legged Gull was on the fields this morning, as the farmer ploughed (JP).

2 Cormorants, 6 Common Gulls and 2 Herring Gulls were on the scrapes (R. Laverack).

Wintersett Sightings - 17th March 2025.

 Anglers CP:

Teal 15.   Shoveler 3 males.   Pochard 13.

Wintersett Res: 

32 Meadow Pipits in north bank field.

Botany Bay:  Great White Egret  1.

Cold Hiendley Res:

Cetti's Warbler 1 male.  

Carlton Marsh

3 Snipe, Little Egret, 2 Cormorants and 3 LBB Gulls were on the scrapes. 6 Chiffchaffs and 2 Cetti's warblers sang (J. Finch/N. Lunn/CG).

The sheep have now gone to pastures new!

Wintersett Bird Sightings 16.03.2025

Anglers CP: 

Whooper Swan 31.   Yellow-legged Gull 1 4th Winter.

Shoveler 8.   Pochard 13.   Goosander 1.   Teal 12.   

Snipe 1.   Lapwing 22.

Wintersett Res:

Water Rail 1.   Pochard 4.   Wigeon 26.   Grey Wagtail 1.

Cetti's Warbler 3 singing males. 

Cold Hiendley Res:

Great White Egret 1. 

Carlton Marsh

On the wader scrape this morning 2 LBB Gulls, 1 Herring Gull, c500 B.H. Gulls.

Also of interest 2 Mute Swans mating, 2 Redwings and 55 Pink Feet geese very high west at 09.10hrs (J. Finch/C.Parkin/CG).

                             Sparrowhawk (Simon Cox)

 Sadly one of the 7 sheep on the Western Meadow was found dead. The rest will be taken off tomorrow to allow spring flowers to grow. 

Wintersett 15th March 2025

Anglers CP: 

Yellow-legged Gull 1 x 4th Winter.

Goosander 1 Redhead.   Shoveler 3

Snipe 11. 

Wintersett Res:

Grey Wagtail 1 male.    Redwing 3.   Grey Heron 3.

Kingfisher 1.   Pochard 5.  3 singing male Cetti's Warblers.

Cold Hiendley Res:

Great White Egret 1.   Cetti's Warbler 1.   Fieldfare 10.

Moorhouse Lane Ponds:

Great White Egret 1.

Walton Hall Game Crop:

Linnet 250. 

Wintersett - 14th March 2025

Anglers CP: 

A 4th Winter Yellow-legged Gull was in the shallows.

Shoveler 3 males and 3 females.   Pochard 12.   Snipe 4.

Wintersett Res:

Great White Egret 1.   Wigeon 24.   Pochard 3. 

Meadow Pipit 23 on north bank WRes. 

Cetti's Warbler 2 males.

Fieldfare 1.    Redwing 1.