Sightings Archive

Attercliffe: Peregrine - 2 - adult on Bernard Road incinerator building, juv low over roofs at Norfolk Bridge.

Langsett Res: Black-headed Gull - 604 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 356 ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - sub-ad ; Common Gull - 1 ; Goosander - 6 - 6 juvs

Loxley Valley: Common Buzzard - 4 - Soaring and calling over old waterworks

Orgreave Lakes: Kestrel - 2 - Hunting together near main lake. ; Kingfisher - 1 - Settled then fished on riverside.

Silverwood Lagoon: Greenshank - 1 - dropped-in at 07.40, stayed for a couple of minutes then flew south ; 320 - 6 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Shoveler - 1 - male ; Canada Goose - 53 - feeding in stubble to west ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - regular adult ; Sparrowhawk - 1

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 8 - inc.pr 3j ; Little Grebe - 2 - 1ad 1j ; Cormorant - 3 ; Mute Swan - 68 - incprs with 3j2j ; Canada Goose - 59+ - parties in and out from fields ; Gadwall - 4 - f3j ; Tufted Duck - 53 ; Black-headed Gull - 80+ ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - ad /near ad ; Swift - 2 - feeding ; Sand Martin - 3+ ; Swallow - 20+ ; House Martin - 4+ ; Wren - 14 ; Reed Warbler - 3+ - jv call ; Blackcap - 2 ; Whitethroat - 4 ; Willow Warbler - 1 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 12 ; Treecreeper - 1

Attercliffe: Common Sandpiper - 1 - Feeding on Effingham street wear. ; Yellow-legged Gull - 1 - 1 sub adult. Very few gulls.

Canklow Woods: Swift - 1 - 1 south

Green Moor: Long-tailed Tit - 6+ - Including juvs

Hangingwater garden: Collared Dove - 1 - juv with collar just developing

Hudson*s Rough: Sparrowhawk - 1 - At least 1 juv still remaining. ; Wren - 1 - sing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - sing ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ ; Jay - 1+

Lodge Moor: 319 - 1 - Being chased by a Carrion Crow. Regularly over between Blackbrook Wood and Mayfield Valley in both directions ; Feral Pigeon - C60 - Regular in garden on ground feeder and bathing in pond. Roof all day.

Millhouses Lane garden: Bullfinch - 3+ - juveniles ; Goldfinch - 5+ - adults and juveniles ; Blue Tit - 6+ - mostly juveniles ; Great Tit - 2+ - adults ; Greenfinch - 4+ - adults & juveniles ; Blackcap - 1 - visiting unripe elderberries ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - juvenile, drinking at birdbath and visiting feeders ; Nuthatch - 1 - visiting feeders and foraging on ground underneath ; Bullfinch - 4 - two adult pairs ; Chaffinch - 1 - female ; Robin - 2+ - adult & juvenile ; Woodpigeon - 1+ - under the feeders

Parkgate; Retail World: Starling - c80 - foraging flock circling over @ 1620hrs

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 08-Oct - renewed activity around colony with birds settling briefly in mouths of nest holes

Ramsley Moor: Stonechat - 1+ - Adult male taking food to juvs in bracken.

Redmires Middle Res: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 48 - pre roost ; Yellow-legged Gull - 2 - adult and one footed 3cy ; Lapwing - c60

Shiregreen: 319 - 1 - Circling and calling over

Silverwood Lagoon: Barn Owl - 1 - hunting at 06.05 ; Gadwall - 3 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult ; Cormorant - 1 - circled then west at 07.55 ; Skylark - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 1 ; 319 - 1 ; Canada Goose - 34 - in stubble to west ; Goldfinch - 30 ; Linnet - 12 ; Swallow - 2 ; Reed Warbler - 6+ - still a few calling in reedbeds ; Reed Bunting - 10 ; House Martin - 15 ; Pheasant - c.20 - widespread on pit top ; Kestrel - 1

Sothall: Swift - 5 - South

Bolehill Wood, Bamford: Kestrel - 1 - Hovering slowly over hill

Brecks: Rook - 1 - Searching the grass outside St. Cuthbert's church hall

Brincliffe Edge: Blackcap - 1 - female - not normally seen in garden during summer months

Green Moor: Little Owl - 5 - 2 adults and 3 owlets again this morning. Owlets now feeding themselves on worms. ; Little Owl - 5 ; Little Owl - 5 ; Little Owl - 5

Greystones garden: Sparrowhawk - 1 - Female

Hurlfield: Swift - 2 - south at 15:50. ; Sparrowhawk - 2 - together over towards Buck Wood. ; Kestrel - 1

Intake: Tree Pipit - 1 - Flying south calling

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 01-Feb

Steel HIll: Mistle Thrush - 30+ - feeding in fields