Sightings Archive

Upper Common, Scholes: Skylark - 1 - sing ; Dunnock - 1 - sing ; Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Goldfinch - 1 - sing

Walkley garden: Swift - 12 - largest group seen from here this season

Wortley: Little Owl - 1 - 8am Sat on lamp post overlooking Stocksbridge by-pass

Bramley: Swift - 1 - Female on eggs in loft on Flanderwell Avenue.

Crookes Valley Park: Coot - 4+ - Two pairs, with three well-grown imms and a fresh chick respectively ; Mallard - 12+ - Including female with 5 small chicks

Keppels Field: 319 - 1 - low over Scholes Coppice and field occasional calls ; Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Swift - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre: Mallard - 1+ - Female drawing mink away from 7 well-grown chicks by Main Street bridge and then flying back to them ; Sand Martin - 6 - Including two entering pipe in canal wall behind railway station

R Don, Rotherham Centre; adjacent interchange: Grey Wagtail - 1 - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing

R Don, Tinsley: Black-headed Gull - 40 - On weir behind Tinsley SF, including one ginger juv; bred nearby? ; Canada Goose - 2+ - Pair with three chicks by weir behind Tinsley SF ; Gadwall - 3+ - Three females, plus one well-grown imm ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - Pair carrying food from weir to nest site just inside Tinsley SF compound ; Sand Martin - 6 - Feeding busily around weir behind Tinsley SF ; Mallard - 1+ - Female with 8 small chicks by weir behind Tinsley SF ; 319 - 1 - Over and circling N of Tinsley SF ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Male carrying prey item over weir behind Tinsley SF ; Bullfinch - 3 - Two males and a female ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing by river

Redmires conduit: Linnet - 4 - 2 adults feeding 2 juveniles

Redmires Middle Res: Common Sandpiper - 1+ - one plus chick at water's edge

Redmires Top Res: Lapwing - 3 - 3 chicksin wet areas, no adult present

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 6 - 1pr with hidden nest ; Mute Swan - 44 - inc 2y3y ; Greylag Goose - 5 - past s ; Tufted Duck - 10 - 2f ; 319 - 6 - soar. 2ne 4se ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Kestrel - 2 - hunt. ; Herring Gull - 4 - inc.1s2n ; Swift - 100+ ; Wren - 13 - singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing ; Blackcap - 6 - inc 1s and family party 5+ ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing ; Whitethroat - 9+ - 3 single ads,.fam.6+ ; Willow Warbler - 3 - singing ; Chiffchaff - 2 - 1 singing, 1 collecting food ; Great Tit - 40+ - inc six fams ; Blue Tit - 13+ - in two fams ; House Sparrow - 8+ ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3 singing, 1m collecting food ; Yellowhammer - 1 - m

Abbey Brook: Ring Ouzel - 2 - female with food, male mobbing Kestrel ; Stonechat - 3 - pair with 3 chicks in upper valley, male singing, and different male lower down the valley. ; Hobby - 1 - Abbey Brook and maybe same Upper Hey. ; Kestrel - 2 - adults ; Peregrine - 1 ; Tree Pipit - 1 - singing

Agden Beck: Whinchat - 1 - singing male, Rushy Dyke

Banner Cross: Grey Wagtail - 1 - f feeding along pavement

Bar Brook Valley: Whinchat - 3

Barbrook Bridge: Whinchat - 2 ; Curlew - 1 ; Kestrel - 1

Barley Hole Spring: Jay - 2 ; Blackcap - 3 - singing

Cartledge Brook: Cuckoo - 1 - adult at c480m asl

Elsecar Res: Blackcap - 1 - singing ; Great Crested Grebe - 7+ - + 2 broods of 2 juvs ; Canada Goose - 5 - left S ; Grey Heron - 1 - adult ; Coot - 8+ - #NAME? ; Moorhen - 7+ - #NAME? ; Mallard - c60 - inc juvs, plus lots of 'daffys'! ; Black-headed Gull - 6 ; Mute Swan - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - singing ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1pr - m singing + anxious f ; Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Green Woodpecker - 1 - calling ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing

Featherbed Moss: Curlew - 2 - alarming pair (Howden Edge/Cartledge Brook one)

Firsby Res: Moorhen - 1 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - Singing Male. ; Reed Bunting - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing. ; Willow Warbler - 1 ; Sedge Warbler - 2 - Singing, Main Res. ; Skylark - 1 - Over set aside field.

Hackenthorpe: Red Kite - 1 - over at 14:20

Harley; Coach Road: Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - singing ; Tree Sparrow - 3 ; Whitethroat - 1 ; Kestrel - 1 - f over to S carrying prey ; Red-legged Partridge - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 2 - inc one singing ; Pheasant - 5 - cocks in same field ; Common Buzzard - 1 - low over into Barley Hole Spring ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing ; Skylark - 01-Feb - singing over adjacent fields ; Rook - c30 - feeding in adjacent fields, inc juvs