Sightings Archive

Stubbin, nr Rawmarsh; Back Lane: Stock Dove - 4 ; Pheasant - 3+ - adults + 7 juvs ; Jackdaw - 30-40 ; Skylark - 2 ; Blackcap - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 1 - sat on hedgerow

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 7 - 4ad 3juv ; Little Grebe - 6 - 3ad 3juv ; Cormorant - 3 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Mute Swan - 51 ; Gadwall - 1 - f ; Tufted Duck - 59 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Lapwing - 60 - in stubble ; Black-headed Gull - 75 ; Swift - 1 - feeding till 0845 ; Sand Martin - 5 ; House Martin - 6 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 ; Robin - 20 ; Song Thrush - 2 ; Blackcap - 4 - 2m 1f 1 calling ; Chiffchaff - 11 - 3 singing ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - flycatching ; Jay - 1 ; Goldfinch - 50 - + inc flock 40+ ; Reed Bunting - 5

Ulley Res: Great Crested Grebe - 3 - 2 adults, 1 juv. ; Grey Heron - 2 - Lots of calling and flying around site. ; Swallow - 20+ ; Long-tailed Tit - 5+

Brightside: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - S over President Park

Coombs Dale: Goldfinch - 30+

Dale Brook, Stoney Middleton: Grey Wagtail - 1

Eastwood, Rotherham: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over together @ 1140hrs

Green Moor: Tawny Owl - 1

Grenoside: Little Owl - 1

Harley: Redstart - 1 - fem/imm on Coach Rd ; Wheatear - 2 ; Mistle Thrush - 37 - Flock in field beside Coach Road

Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 1 - Juv' still present ; Mandarin - 1 - Juv

Shirecliffe: Chiffchaff - 8+ - 1 singing ; Willow Warbler - 2+ - subsong ; Swallow - 2 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - perched on phone mast antenna ; Blackcap - 8+ ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Nuthatch - 1 - calling

Silver Wood: Little Egret - 1 - on Woodlaithes duckpond at 06.15

Walkley: 319 - 1 - Landed in tree at N edge of Toft Wood, end of Bentley Road

Woodhouse Washlands: Little Egret - 2

Barlow: Redstart - 1 - male ; Wheatear - 4 ; Whinchat - 1 ; 319 - 02-Mar ; Linnet - 150+ ; Kestrel - 2 ; Goldfinch - 6 ; Swallow - 5 ; Meadow Pipit - 2

Burbage Valley: Kestrel - 2 ; 319 - 1 ; Raven - 1 - Calling & impressive aerial display ; Whinchat - 3 ; Meadow Pipit - 2 ; Swallow - 3

Catcliffe Flash: Mute Swan - 6 - ad pr + 4 imm ; Gadwall - 35+ ; 320 - 2 ; Shoveler - 3 ; Cormorant - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Little Grebe - 5+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 2+ - ad pr + 3 young ; Moorhen - 5+ ; Coot - 70+ ; 320 - 9

Greystones garden: Nuthatch - 1

Longshaw: Kestrel - 2 - 1 female

Orgreave Lakes: Wheatear - 1 ; 319 - 1 - Circling overhead mid morning

Redmires Middle Res: Kestrel - 4 - Hunting hillside south of reservoirs. ; 319 - 2 ; Sparrowhawk - - male along face of middle dam ; Curlew - 1

Rivelin Valley: Little Owl - 3 - On Coppice Farm

Silverwood Lagoon: Canada Goose - 64 - in at 09.00 ; Shoveler - 1pr ; Gadwall - 7 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - south ; Cormorant - 1 - SW ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Common Gull - 1 ; Black-headed Gull - 20 ; 319 - 1

Bradfield: House Martin - 10+

Chesterfield: Swift - 1 - Above big Tesco